PAEROA NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10412, 9 April 1897, Page 6

PAEROA NOTES.

' [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Paeroa, Thursday. The Ohinemuri County Council met this afternoon for the purpose of considering the Paeroa-Waihi railway, but it was decided 1 that the matter should stand over until tha ordinary monthly meeting in May, in order to give Messrs. Morris and Hunt, represents* tives of the New Zealand Exploration Com* pany an opportunity of being present. The tenders'for metalling Te Puke Road were also received, but the Council decided upon the recommendation of the engineer that only spalls should be placed on the road just now, and that the top dressing of metal i be delayed until next spring. This bein? considered tile most profitable course to adopt under the circumstances. The tenders conse- V quently were not accepted, but fresh tender! for spalling the road are to bo invited, and these are to be returnable on Thursday next#' The Native Land Court opened this morn* iug, and Judge Mair announced to the natives : '£ that the only cases that could be taken at *£ present were compensation claims for land. taken by the Paeroa-Te Aroha Railway. Thl v ? first case called on was by Mrs. \V. G< i Nicholls, for whom Mr. K. W. Porritl ' appeared, and asked for an adjourn-; t . ment till to - morrow as the counsel k (Mr. Cotter) eugaged was detained *1 the Thames. Mr. E. G. B. Moss, who ap peared for the Public Works Department \ consented to this, and the case was accord-, : mg;ly put down for to-morrow, at ten o'clock. J The case has excited much interest in Paeroi % as it appears that in addition to over £1001 £.;■ being claimed for the actual three acre! *Vtaken, a further £1000 is claimed as special' y damage, through the station and line cutting f off the # rest of the land from the Paeron *; township. The Court has been occupied all day with small claims for the swamp land#