OHINEMURI NEWS. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Paeroa, Tuesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2250, 9 December 1886, Page 3

OHINEMURI NEWS. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Paeroa, Tuesday.

The Ohinemuri Licensing Connnittee sat on Saturday last, when applications weie received from Messrs MGeeham, Horne and dimming*, of Owharoa, for publican a licenses, and one application from Mr MeGeehan for an accommodation license. The applications for publican's licenses were not entertained, owing to the determination of the local option poll in 1885 deciding that no more publican's licenses should be granted for a> period of three years. Mr McGeehan's application for an accommodation license was inform.il. The committee adjourned for a fortnight, when it is understood that all three applicants will apply for accommodation licenses, which may be granted. The time for receiving tenders for the Ohinemuri section of the Thames-Te Aroha railway has been extended for a week. Tim was n>>t generally known until .most of the lnwl tenderers, believing that tbe time had expired, had made known their price?. The fi«sco would not have occurred had one or the other of the local papers been informed of the matter. Mr Grace, M. H.R., is expected immediately, when he will probably give an account of his stewardship before going on to the Tauranga portion of his enormous electorate. The Hon. Minister of Mines is also expected shortly. The Ohinemuri County Council will, at their Saturday's meeting, propose a schedule of works, upon which the £(5000 loan will be spent, always provided they get it. It is to be hoped it will include the Training* and Waikato roads, both of which are in a bad way. The council ia expected also to consider the matter of the liquidation of the award of £2000, recently made by Mr J. E. Fitzgerald, Auditor-General, in favour of the Thames county. There is a scheme on foot to get back the revenue derived from the sale of kauri trees, which is now part of the income of the Waste Lands Board, or rather passes through that body to the Consolidated Fund. This will probably be got, at least nntil such time as the liability to the Thames is liquidated. Failing this, there is the Local Bodies Loan Act, section 1(5 of which provides in sub-section 1 that the local authority may borrow, without taking a poll, to repay any liabilities or overdraft existing at the titne the said Act comes into force, and incurred for any purpose for which a loan may be raised—i.e. for works in constructing roads, &c. In fact, there will be no trouble in paying this amount off, although there are those who would make it appear as though it would render the county insolvent.