TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2241, 18 November 1886, Page 2

TE AROHA.

[FROM OUR OWN COURKSPONnENT.] Te Auoha, Wednesday. Unlike other meetings that have been held of late for the discussion of questions of local the one convened on Monday evening to consider the necessity for taking N action for the improvementof the cemetery was characterised by perfect unanimity. The assemblage compiised persons of all shades of opinion in matters connected with local politics but every speaker admitted th.it it was needful to have something done at oftee to put our only piace of burial in a decent state. Th« Rev. J. Marshall (Church of EnglnnJ) was called to the chair and briefly referred to the importance of the subject they had met to consider. During tho discussion that followed there was same sharp criticism of the conduct of the trustees, some of whom had, in the opinion of the speakers, been culpably unmindful of their duty. Three of the b->dy, viz. Messrs Roche Whitaker and Stafford having resigned, the nomination of persons to be rec imuriended to Governmet as their successors was taken into consideration, and Messrs Pavitt, Quinlan, and McLiver were unanimously chosen to fill the vacant places on the board. A resolution, proposed by Mr Frazer and seconded by Mr Cleary, was passed to the following effect : " That this meeting views with regret the present unsatisfactory stare of Te Aroha cemetery, and that the chairman be authorised to forward to the Government the names of the gentlemen nominated and recommended by the meeting, with a lequest that their appointment be confirmed without delay." An amendment, which proposed that nothing should be said condemnatory of the conduct of the late trustee*, leceived only two or thi-ee votes. It was decided that steps should at once be taken to raise funds for the purpose of fencing and otherwise improving the cemet'-ry, and Messrs Frazer, McLiver, and Hoathcote wen. appointed a committee for that purpose. Mr McLiver generously offered to contribute £5, and undertook to raise £15 more in the Waiorongouwi part of the district. Other parts will doubtless also subsenbe liberally, and thus the present discreditable state of things is likely soon to be brought to an end. The monthly meeting of the domain board, adjourned from the 6th inst., w.>held last night, when there were present, Messrs Wilson (chairman), Ahier, Gavin, Quinn, and Ljpsey. —Outward correspon dence was road, including a letter to Di. Heotor refening t«» sample* of water f..i warded to him from the different spriugfor anal vis and giving the temperat-iroaud the outflow. The temperature of th» principal springs at present in use are as follows :— No. 1 bath, 102 J Fahr. ; No. 2 bath 112' ; No 3 (reservoir) 10S J to 112' ; No. •I bath, 92'; No. 5 bath, 100'; No. (> bath, 104'; and drinking fountain 109. The Chairman stated that he and Mr Ahier had gone over the domain grounds that morning, in company with Mr Gordon, Government Engineer, and had pointed out to him several important works which it was necessary to hive completed as early .'»•*• possible.* The chief of these works and their estimated cost were as follow:— Vmilding over No. 8 bath £70; improving dam an«i bringing in water from Lip^ey's Creek, £1.10 : repair-" to di inking spring (including c »:iore,te floor), £20 ; erecting building over hot di inking spi ing, £30; enlarging and lining No 1 bith-hou-e, £50; six earth closets, £30; (; UmR, levelling, and draining giounds, £30; connecting sulphur >piing with No. 3 bath-house, £1.~>; total, £4f>.> —Mr Gordon was <»f opinion that thesr works were most necessary. Heconsideied that the .sums pieviously granted by Goveinment to the boaid had been wisely expended, and would, vn his return to Wellington, recommend that the amount required to carry out the works mentioned .should be yiven. — The frequent breaches of the by-laws by persons using the baths was next considered, and the board expressed a determination to have their regulations fully adhered to. Complaints having been made by visitors a* to the u^e of soap by certain individuals, a resolution was adopted that in future any person found using soap in any of the bath buildings would without further notice be prosecuted, and that a copy of the by-laws be posted in each of the bath-rooms.— A letter from Dr Er-on, of Onehunga, to Mr Geo. Robson, chemist, relative to subsidising a medical practitioner at the baths was submitted, but the board considered that their financial position debarred them from taking the matter into consideration, as they were unable at present to guarantee any sum.— Accounts to the amount of £13 Us 'Jd were passed for payment, and the meeting closed. It was decided that the baths shall now be open from (> a.m. till 10 p.m. A special meeting of the board will be held on Saturday next, to decide upon the hours for admission of ladies to numbers 2 and (J baths, and also to revise the beale of charges.

The new Enfield-Martini rifle is giving very excellent results in the trials which are being made at Home, In the hands of troops it has made good firing, and has only developed a few minor defects which will he at once put in order. At the School of Musketry the results of shooting from tlv new rifle, compared with those of the shooting from the Martini-Henri have been favorable to the former. In the comp"titions a larpe number of sergeants under instruction compete d for prices, one half using the new rum, the other half firing from the Martini Henii. The former noncommissioned officers beat their opponents by an average of 10 points per man. With refeience to the Cable rates battle now going on," Puff" thus writes in the Wellington Evening Press : "Vogel's showing the Telegraph Company a jfood stiff upper lip ' — It's a case of pull devil, pull baker !— I don't know which you call the devil, but I'll lay 8 to 4 on Vogel !— Sj will I ! He's a lister when his blood's nil, as it is m this affair ! --Aye and lie knows he's «ot the public at Ins* h-ick ! -Bit suppose the company charge such terrili • rates that nobody can afford to pay them ?— L'it' em do it ! Who cares ? The woild would continue to revolve on its own axletrec if wo didn't q' j t any telegram* from Australia for the next sixmonths! j Ah so it would, when you come to think of it!" The Ru^siau Government finance is represented to be in a worne condition than pvov. Notwithstanding the extraordinary efforts that have- boon made to increase the rr-cpipts from public taxes the returns nho\v a decrease of 30,000,000 roubles for the year, with a steady increase iv expenditure. Owiuir to the rainy weather durinar the fortnight ending August 10th. the grrain has lain rotting in the field, and the Russian farmers uro greatly depressed. Tue Russian artist Vassili Vassili JSvitch, was asked by General Skobeloff what he thought ot Nihilism and anarchy, th< <eral adding : " I confess tint I have no idea what these gentlemen want " " Very well," replied the artist. "First, the*" don't want war ; and secondly, they spit on pictuie* ; thus, if they came to power you with your strategies and \ictories, and I with my canvass and my brushes, would go up the chimney like burned paper." "All right, I under stand,' said Skobeloff ; " and now that I know their object I shall fight against them." Impounding notices from Hamilton and Te Aw.imutu appear in another column. Kent House, Hamilton East, will be closed to-day and to-morrow morning.