OHINEMURI.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2693, 15 October 1889, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

County Council. —Theusual monthly mooting of the Ohinemuri County Council was held on Saturday last, all tho Councillors being present. The appointment of Forest Ranger was conferred upon, Mr Thos. E. Shaw, at a salary of £25 per annum. There has been a great deal of wanton destruction in our Kauri bushes of late, notably at Waitekauri, where a number of bush contractors have been getting timber for the Waihi Gold Mining Company. Their custom has been to fell a tree, pick out the best of it and leave the balance to rot on the ground. In this way and in otht.rs, it is reckoned that the county has lost tho revenue on over a thousand trees, and when it is considered that 25s per treo would have passed into the county fund, this is a big item, it will be seen. The hill between tho Paeroa and Ohinemuri townships is to bo cut down by order of the county, about 1,200 yards havinc to be removed. This will remove tho barrier between the two sister townships and make them virtually one. A letter was read from the Government concerning the proposed To Aroha borough, which stated that the constitution would not bo granted. This was satisfactory to the Council, as the proposed borough comprised a largo poition of the Tui gold Held.

School Building.—'The secretary of the Ohinemuri School Committeo has received the plans and specifications of the Karangaliako school, lenders for tho erection of which are being called for by the Board of Education. It is a good and suitable building, 30 x 20, with a 10 x 10 porch, all to be heart of kauri, iron roof and brick chimney. The estimated cost is £200. An addition is to be made to the Paeroa school shortly at a cost also of about £200. We have no reason to complain of the manner in which we are treated by the Board. Mauotoio.— Mr John H. Moore, the manager of the Marototo mine, has commenced operations in the matter of erecting a small plant for tho owners of the mine. A contract for a milo and a-half dray or sledge road was lot on Monday to W. Heath at 15.s per chain. This road is for tho transit of the machinery. The Weathkk. —The bad weather still continues. Mr Gibbons, of the Paeroa flax-mi!!, tells me it is losing him over £4 per day. To the early potatoes and fruit crops it is proving quite disastrous. LAWiiKlXH.—Recently the young lads of I'ae.roa, most of them children of respectable parents, haveboen making themselves obnoxious after tho usual manner of tho colonial larrikin, their pranks winding up the other evening by an attack on the Rev. Mr Lawry's bag while hanging in the vestry of the Paeroa Wesleyan Church. These boys taking advantage of Mr Lawry's absence in tho church, got admittance to tho vestry, and rummaged the rev. eentlcman's satchel, abstracting a number of manuscript sermons and carefully compiled data for a temperance lecture, the most of which has not been recovered. Constable Mitchell, who is a terror to such evil-doers, lias taken tho matter in hand, and intonds teaching these youngsters a salutary lesson by tho medium of the R.M. Court. Several assault cases, chiefly against Maoris, will also be beard at the same Court.

Native Land CoiTitT.-—TheNfttiye Land Court has had before it a block uf 260 acres, called Ngahinepouri, for the last fortnight, and the case closed on Tuesday last. The evidence being extremely conflicting as to the existence of curtain kaingas on the land, tho judge (Major Scannell), assessor, and the claimants and counter-claimants, paid a visit to the land on Wednesday. Judgment was given 011 Friday morning, and an extremely intricate mass of ovideuce was carefully unravelled by the judge and tho block awarded to the representatives of the N'Taharua and Ngatiti tribes. Bye th 6 way, the able leader in a late issuo of Thk Waikato Timk», anent native land business has been read, and much appreciated by many connected with Native business here. It very often happens that n judge may bo extremely well intentioned, but failing to got en rapport with those who comes before him, fails signally to do justice, and very often unwillingly commits gross injustice.