TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2682, 19 September 1889, Page 2

TE AROHA.

Domain Hoard.— The monthly meeting of this Pjoai4 was held on Saturday evening. Present: Messrs Gavin (chairman), Lipsey and Ahier. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and several accounts were passed for payment. The receipts from the baths for August were £31, whilst the expenditure was £32 3s 2d. No business of any importance was brought before the meeting.

Licensing Mbkting.—At, a full meeting of the Licensing Committee on Saturday, the transfer from Mrs Annie Thomson, as licensee of the Family Hotel, to her husband, Mr W. H. Thoinsiin, was granted. The police report on all the hotels was favourable.

Stkav Cattle.—Owing to an extensive tract of good grazing land, situated at the south end of the town, having been leased and fenced round for flax drying, a large number of cows and horses, which were wont to depasture on the land, havo been set adrift to seek for pastures new. The animals are nnw wandering all over the town, and, judging from the manure left on the footpaths, etc., will ere long become an intolerable nuisance. It may be said that this state of tilings will bo righted by a borough bye-law, when Te Aroha attains to that advanced state of local government. Meanwhile these stray animals should receive a little more watchful care from our efficient priundkßup" , '', r Guilding. A FoHTUNATK Escapb.—On Fridayafternoim an elderly man from Matamati came to Tβ Aroha and inbibed more liquor than hts could conveniently carry about in his inward person, and, in consequence, rep:iirod to rest amongst the ti-tree near the Domain. His movements and the company he whs with (one or two Maoris of indifferent i-Himte) attracted the attention of Mr John Guilding, who communicated with Sergeant Emerson. The sergeant, in his u*u»l kindly way, induced the man to change his quarters, and, after assisting him to the lock-up, and going through the usual searching ordeal, he found in the prisoner's possession two deposit receipts of WOO each, bank pass book, showing a credit balance of about £2r>o, £L"> in notes, and some loose gold and silver. There was no doubt whatsoever that the whole of this valuable property was the man's own, and it is to be hoped the caution lie received from Mr Dnbsou, .T.P., on Saturday morning will teach him t> be. more careful in the future. He was lined os and 2s costs.

R.M. Couivr. —liefore H. W. Northcroft, R.M. In the only civil case, John Hart v. L. Millett, judgment was given for plaintiir, .U 2s, costs, Ids. Police v. N. Cleary, J. Medhirst, C. Tonge, and F. Merciir : This case was the outcome of recent destruction to property in Tβ Arolia, described in your columns last week in perhaps frm uurefinud language as the acts ot idiots. ruHiins and wretches of a low type. To ono of the defendants, the. R.M. suggested die acts might have been those of fairies, and every one who listened to the suggestion is content to substitute the gentlest term, indeed audible sighs of relief might liiive been heard in Court when the phenomenon of a fairy romoving heavy gates, lifting street bridges, and threatening to throw a dog through a window on <m irascible old man in a hotel, &.0., &c, was suggested. Sir \V. Wasteneys appeared for tho defendants, and in the opening case, that of breaking a lamp, gained a point in law, necessitating the dismissal of the case. The wording in the other charges was by consent agreed to to be altered from "unlawfully" to " wantonly," (as in the second charge) removing a gate at tho Palace Hotel. Defendants pleaded not guilty, whereupon all witnesses connected with the case wero ordered out of court. Sergeant Emerson, in opening the case, said he had been twenty-five years in the force, and had never in his experience had such a peculiar case to deal with. He know all the defendants as respectable young men, but they were the only persons in the street on the night (or morning) the damage was done. He described the whole town to have been in an uproar, and the parties , accused of it were seen prowling about the streets. After a considerable amount of conflicting evidence had been taken from several witnesses His Worship made some very strong comments on the evidence given by Cleary and O'Brien, and dismissed the case, adding that it would be a warning to each of them,