TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2692, 12 October 1889, Page 2

TE AROHA.

School, Commit ckb M.:y,TiNi:. — Tho monthly meeting was held mi Monday evening. Present, Messrs Alii -v, (Chairman), Menzics, Lavery, and Armit. The general business was of a routine nature. Mr Marsden, head teacher, was present, and handed over to the Treasurer :i very substantial sum of moiioy, being the proceeds of the children's last entertainment, inaugurated by the teachers, with the object of assisting t-> provide funds f> re-paint tlie school and the teacher's residence. A motion, uroposed by Mr Armit. seconded by Mr Lavery, " That the hearty thanks of the committee be tendered to Mr and Mrs Marsden, Miss Hould, Miss and Mr Mulg.ui, and others, who had worked so well to make the entertainment a .success," was catricd uaminousiy, Tt was to defer eallhitf f..r tender.-: for the pninlins until January. Meut.ion was made of the non fulfilment of a promise niadel by the annual Se.ho-il fete Cnunui t.-« of pi i/.jsguined by ten or twelve, children, and it was arranged that shops taken at an early date, so that the children ni-iy receive their promi.ie.i reward. Iv'.v, Mr La wry aud_ Mr Ahior were appointed a vi-iting committee for the current nrnith.

l.Mi'or.TA.M' Vi.siroiw. —Mr i'..ttoii, maiviger of the renowned lir.rken Hills proprietary Co., accompanied by hi- wife anil d:\ught.o: , , arrived here by tr:in mi Tuesday afternoon, and were- inrl by Mr ilowoll, superintondatit of the wurks. Til'? party are n-.sLlinsr at Smith's Hot Springs Hotel. Very probably Mr Patt in's valuable knowledge as to the value and treatment of minerals u ill be in ii:nch request here, and it is to bo hop-.-d he will be able to dovisj soma method or mjiuis to get over the present rather entiuai juncture of affairs at Wiiiioiu'o.mv.

Tl'l Th.VMWAY. — Upwards of forty tons of sl.ulf has l.uo;i saiil to Ilia II it by means of the aerial tramway, which ansuvors its purpose admirauly. The rate of speed, being regulated by Mr Johnston, tin: skilled engineer of this work, .should bo four miles an hour. In his absence at llnntly two days ago, the men he had left iu charge, thinking they would ae-olerate the pace of the buckets * ! »t them oft at the rate of ten or twelve miles an hour, with the consequence of smashing up one of tlie buckets and injuring others considerably, besides damaging tha wire. On his return, Mr Johnston dismissed the men, and by Thursday morning will have his work going at the normai spoed of four miles an hour, tt is expected that the Directors will be on tho ground in about a week, when Mr Johnston will formally hand over the tramway completed. Accident.—On Monday afternoon, the boiler used at Mr Coulthard's (lax mill butst, but happilly no one was bodily in jured. What with fires and this latest mishap, Mr. Coulthard has been singularly iiiifortuimto. Fancy Dkuss ISai.l.— Tho ladies hers aro in a perfect Mutter of excitement over one of tho local events of modern times, namely the closing of tho rinking season, aud are putting forth their best efforts on the portenteous occasion to out-rival each other in fastastie adornment at the Public Hall on Wednesday evening, when a grand fancy dress carnival will take place. .IJl'tohkii and Pi'umcan. —Since a monopoly ofthe supply of moat to our hotelkeepoi s was cleverly established by Air A. Conies about two months ago, the kindly relation between beer , and beef, generally speaking, has not been of the strongest nature, At the utarfc of. the feud one butoher Rot a supply from Auckland of what he required in the way of liquor, and has gradually tapered himself off from the habit of drinka'together, another, spitefully toned down either at Waioroiigomai or Waifconaud has also agraad to go \yithoui. Of course the hotelkeepers can't do without meat, and it so happened the other evening that cutlets could not be had from the monopolists aud application was meekly made at the establishment of one of tho freetraders, when he point blank refused to p.irt with cutlets to the publican were he to pay one shilling a pound for the sarce.