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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 34, 6 August 1892, Page 4

We are unflar 'the impression f.hat nothing will be. done to fill permanently the local postmastership until after the'sessi™. Messrs Vuglar .Bros:,'who'are go-ahead vo'ir.tf man, have commenced bnschering at iWa'ih'. ;As th«y understand their business and intend'lookins; after ,t,heir patrons, we should adv;sed our Waihi renders to give them a trial. *

The Pres'denfc and six judges of the Japa« nese Supreme Court are accused of card playing and :ntriguinsj with dancing; girls -A creat scandal' has .been t caused, and the Minister of Justice -has retired 'pending; ,an inquiry. '""

Mr J. M. Syms {and family) well known jn Incil shipping" nrif t,er*. is on a hol'dav trip to Melbourne; Miss Coote, of Paeroa, is also on a visit to the other, side..

The S3 Matnkn has bnen disabled owing to sn accident to her-boiler. ' 'r' ■ Dr Taltnage,* a well known divine, who has been on a visit t*> Russia, had an interview with the Czar, whom he described as genial and simple in. his ways, arid allowing'an inter'st in religion exceeding that in politics.! 13r Taim^ge considers' thah foreigners haye, been monstrously wrong in their judgment of the Czar, The Jubilee Battery, Waitekauri, is atoing three shifts oa excellent ore, and the Silver-1 ton plant, Waihi, in alsj going fnll time. I

;Crown Go.'s.tehdersdoie to-day. Extract from the journals of the House of Representatives, Wednesday, June 29th::— "On the wiotion of Mr Guinness it was ordered, That there be laid before this House a return showing (i) the number of different local governing bodies in 'New Zealand, aud the total number of members of each of such local bodies,; (2) the return to show the total number of loctl bodies, and the members thereof, under the following heads: Couuty Councils, Munioipal Councils, Harbour Boards, Education Boards, High School Boards, Road Bar Is, Charitable Aid Boards, Benevolent Society 'trustees, Hospital Trustees, School Comiflsioaers, .Licensing Committees, Land Boards, Local School -Com* mittees, and all other local bodies not enumerated in the above list."

The defaulters' list of ratepayers who have •not come up to, the scratch remains pretty ' large. The time is now past when the payment of these!rates -would have, increased the County's subsidy. We note that several, 1 < members of the late lameuted " Vigilanoe ' Committee" are prominent among the defaulters

A Xlr John Jordan, writing to the "Tyrone Constitution" on New Zealand, says of Sir George Grey :—*' He is the greatest irunman this Bide of the Equator. lake Satfl among the Israelites, ihe stands, as a warrior, head and shoulders towering afar above all ■ his contemporaries Wearing eat' his days in benefiting his nee by bis wealth ' and wisdom."

The Timaru R,M. gave judgment on Monday in ttirej Sunday trading cases. In two where liquor was sold by unauthorised persons the informations were dismissed. In the third, where the barman asked if the man was a traveller and got the reply " Yes," his Worship convicted him and fined him 20s and increased the 'fine to £5 to enable the defendant to appeal. The R.M." said that the simple inquiry whether the man was a traveller was not enough. On Sunday trading the law was a farce.

At the Police Court on Monday, A. Maokay was -fined 5/ and costs 14/6 for keeping an unregistered dog, and a native named Kimo .Kimo 10/ and costs I'if for a similar offence. A warrant for commitment was made in the case of Douglas v. Hancock, for non-payment of costs. '

The atables at Hikutaia owned "by .Mr I. Corhett, and occupied by Messrs Bradley and Co., was burned down on Saturday night. No insurance-; damage, £120; cause, spon* 'taneous ignition of damp hay.; no inquest.

Ex-Inspector Bu'len died on the 16th ulfc., in Yarra Bend Lnuatic. Asylum, Melbourne.

Messrs Sharland and Co., Ltd , advertise their already well-known Baking Powder to-day. This brand is increasing in, popularity among miners and bushtnen.

Messrs Vuglarbrothers ha<l theirfllaughter. house license granted by the County 'Council on I hursday, subject; to 'the, Inspector* «c- ' port.

The Rev Mr Kafcterns will preach" in the ' English Church to-merrow as follow*':— 1' Waitekauri 11 /a.m., Owharoa' 3.15 p.nu, > Paeroa 7 p.m. __ ' ' The 1 following are the services to "be conducted in the Wesleyan Church jto-morrow: Paeroa 11 a.m., Hikutaia 230 p.m., and Paeroa 6.30 pm-,Mr 6. Devey ; Waihi 7 •p.m. Mr E. Stanway.

The railway works are progressing as well as tne weather and the system permits'.' On Saturday Mr Fitzgerald, Engineer-in-charge, paid at Te Aroha £418 18s Bd, and Mr Shaw, overseer paid a-. Paeroa £107 18s 8d ; totaH for monthT £s^l7sltil^'!Water iC«(tm:very troublesome on the 1ine...",.....

Itris stated that, butchers are substituting New "Zealand'" lamb arid 1 sheep Tor English and Scbfcdti' in consequence of the enormous profits to be made out oijhem.

Mr John McConnell, the popular president of the 3 Karana;ilnke Football Club, has offered a handsome gold medal for the win-' ncr of a quarter-mile race, to be arranged; arid Mr Hutchinson, the vice-president, 'offers a slyer meal as second prize. There should be a big.competition for this race.- v ;■• ■■ i:-:!''_^_--..i.: