TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2725, 31 December 1889, Page 2

TE AROHA.

Domain 'Board —The special meeting of this Unard for the purpose of opening lenders for a new bath house, and other business, was held 011 Monday evening. Present : Tin; Chairman (ATr Gavin), Messrs Holt and Atiier. The building proposed to be erected, will be 10ft. long by 12ft. wide, and divided into two rooms of equal size by a partition. The following were the tenders:—Connor and Devey, £30 (accepted) ; Mills and Tonge, £37 ( Js Gd ; Cnrrio, £37 15s; and J. Wert, £37 10s. Nothing definite was done about some other business of considerable importance, and the further consi ieration of it was postponed till Monday evening next. _ Meeting of CiiKlirrous.--A meeting of the creditors of Mr John liowland, bush contractor, was held at Baskwelle's store, Waiorongomai, last Friday. After some discussion the meeting was adjowrnod till January 15th, to allow the banluupt to bring forward bis books. Town' Board.—A special meeting of this board tool; place on Saturday evening, in connection with striking a rate, a clause in the Rating Act not having been complied with, necessitated a formality to be gone through, in order t > legalise the rate. The Commissioners present were : The Chairman (Mr Gallagher), and Messrs Mills and Heathcote. —Com. Miils gave notice, that at the next monthly meeting he will move that the resolutions of November iltli and December 12th, referring to striking a rate, be rescinded.—lt was resolved I,hat the meeting be called for the loth January, for the purpose of taking tinnecessary steps re striking a rate.—Cr. Gallagher gave notice that at the meeting to be held on lSth .January, he would move that a rate of Od in the .£ be struck. — Cr. Miils moved, and Cr. Heathcote seconded, that notice of their intention to strike a rate be advertised in the Te Aroha and Waiorongomai Times, together with the schedule jf the works proposed to be dono.—Carried. —After some unimportant conversation, the meeting terminated. Resignation.—Mr George Ebert has forwarded his resignation as one of the Town Commissioners. The meeting on Saturday (veiling being a special one, the matter was not publicly mentioned at the meeting. Departures.—A considerable number of working men have left here quite recently, many having gone down Reefton way, where it is said work is plentiful and wages good, Mata.mata Races.—Complaint lias been freely made against tho decision of the judges in awarding the prize for the high jump event to a disqnalifid Maori horse. It is the opinion of those who witnessed the race that the prize should have been given to Mr Howell of this place, whose horse performed the three jumps in- a creditable manner, whilst the others could not look at the high jump.