THE AROHA AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 295, 1 September 1888, Page 2

THE AROHA AND O h i n em ur i N ews AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

' ThN above all —to thine owi «elf ho truo And it must follow as the ni^ht the clay Thou canst not then be Inlse to'rny rran,

SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, IBSB.

We ha\c much pleasure in placing before our readers to-day a de^enpf ion of th^ aildifionul plant now in course of erection at Wiiior<m c ,'nmai for iliu To Aiohfi Silver rvnd Gold Mining Ccmprtny Li in I 'i he^o a hii lions alone will cost clo--.e on £20,000, and when completed the plant j will be far before anything of the kiad i in iNew Zealand ; indeed, no aUompt hati been made \v tho Colony to erocfc a conil'in ition plant, such as tlv.fc roferrod | to, capable of sncci ssfnily ticating all ilosciipiions of ore, refractory or otherwise, »-nd its election will we fully be lievp bo the means of ievolutioni e ing mining on this goldfielJ, and inaugurate an era of great prosperity in connection I theiewith. As we have so often before remaikcd in the^o columns, nothing I do so much to dispid the cloud of depresj sion, that lias long vested on this fair I Kind, ns a revival'of the minim,' industry. The mineral resources of the Colony are j practically unlimited, and only require to 'be better known to be the menus ol attracting large sums of foreign capital hero For investment ; an 1 tup confidence shown by the Company p Fen eel to in this poition of (he gold-field augurs well for its future. Fully three hundred men will have to be employed ly this Company alone to keep the whole of the; reduction plant fully a( work. The erection of this plant will pi ore a matter of great interest and importance to al! interested in the mininu; industiy, anil will afford a ready market for the disposal of oie, both for the working miner, and also for those not inclined to erect plants for themselves ; and do away with the necessity of shipping ores to a foreign marker for treatment. The matter is ons of importance io the whole Colony, and we hope Government will see it in tin's light, and do all in its power to assist those who have thus, unaided by bonus, subsidy, or in any other way, gone to such great expense and tioul.le in seeking to solve that knotty question '• How best to treat our refractory ores " There is one very im portant direction Government miQlit assiVt in, and at the s.nne lime assist the revenue of tho Colony, via , by extending the railway from To Aroh.a to Waiormig-oinui ; or connect the two townships by i ram way. There are no en-L-ineeiing difficuUka in the way, and a iight Hpc of rails could bo laid down for a comparatively small sum. The Co. will retjnire n large and continuous supply of coal, coke, lime, quartz, etc., nearly tho whole of which would bo conveyed by rail were (he lin" extended ns suggested, and Avhich othf>nw»e will be conveyed to Waiorongormi landing by river to the gie.n loss of the rail nay depaitment. Jfc is a'so the unJ. ub ed duty of tho Government 'o rsst-t (ho Company by afl'ordn£ them every pcsiUe ffuiliiy in

(he matfcr oF transport and freight. Wo flic sure all onr i colors will heartily nnito wiih us in wishing the To Arolm S. au-1 G. M. Co. a lonp: ami prosl>oro\.is career in onr mills*-, anil that full i\jcasuio of success in every way which they soiichly deserve.

Our Obinemmi coi respondents report and oilier matter iy unavoidably crowded out this issue. Two Salvation A tiny I.is.ses liavc been visiting t\\n district dm ing- the week with a view, apparently, of ascertaining whether To Arolui requires tlie services ci' the Ami}' or not. The mild weather of the earlier pat* of the week became much colder on Thursday ami all Fiiday a veiy cold wind from the south west Mas blowing. In the morning there was a quantity of snow on Ihe top of the Aroha mountain. The residents of Waiorongomai nro giv~ ing: much attention to their house property, and improvements in the way of fencing nrny be noticed on all bides. The Bishop oC Peterborough, speaking nt Keltering the other day, urged theimpoitanoe of regular systematic giving toward the church. lie «*.iid ho heat lily wished the church could do without bazaars and fancy ; laiis, wliich hethouahtmost objectionabfe coutiivanccs for raising money', lie could not bolieve in many ca^es they were ncces- | i,uv. It would be hotter to induce men to givo chcci fully for the sake of God and the Church than for pleasure, excitement, or amusement received. Wo understand that Mr J. P. Vause, the local postmaster, has received instructions to proceed to To and that the officer in oblige of that station is to be lemoved to To Atoha. Mr Vauso will cave, for his new splicie of action eaily next week. Mr I' 1 . St tango, of Ayleshnry farm Waihou, is planting a quantity of peas and bailey in preparation for a bacon farm next season. Mr Scddon is putting in a latgc acreage of potatoes on his faim at Wnito.i. Many other seltleis are also planting potatoes on n largo scale. Mr Abbey, of the Waihou store, has shown us some fino samples of onions — one in paiticular weighing" about l^lb — which were q-own in the To Aroha. West Di^tiicl on land said to be woithless. We undoi stand that Mr J. Wiseman is going to tike over Ilvdo Park again. Mr WiMMjrin held I'iis t.um about two years iv.f\ !<;}( "t Ins Mnce been in the possession of Mr Moon. The follow ing tenders wern opened on Wednesl. y ewutng la^t by the Te Aroha [Tot Snimgs Domain Board for lawn extortion, etc. of ,i frither poition of the Domain ; pait of which it i« intended to bet rip.iit ?.ri a bowling gteen, adjoining the pietcnt tennis couit: — Peter lliee, £107 ; Join McLeod, £107 • Patrick Dillon, £105 ; Foisnvm and Coghlan, i£9B 10s ; Campbell and Cook (accepted), UGO 14s, A tender was also read fiom J. O'Connor, £107, hut being w ithout deposit wis mlp 1 informal. A foot note wa" attached to Messrs Campbell and Cook" tender, a'? follow : — "' Tenderers will lebate fr - e per cent, if woik is p-is«ed as coiiect by Engineei." Mr and Mis Mace ga\ o a laigo pat l v at Waimongomai on Thm.-day e\ eniug last, to (.elebiafe the opening of their larucand mo<t comfoi tnble new bontding honso. A large number of invitations won issued tor the occasion and (bore imiPt have been fully fo: ty couples piesent. A liift ?ntc suj'p^r v. as Kiitl out, and d.incinir, which was kept up w ith spuit till the wee srnn I'Oiu.s, was in'etspeispd bv a number oi songs-, etc,, the whole affair pioving a qieat success. Mr E. Y. Co\- ( is r.?mo > ,ing a number of thtve room houses from Shaftesbuty and re-erecting them at Waiorongomsii ; where lionsi's aie likely to be in demand ere long. Th'TO will bo a sitting of the To Arohn Wardens and U. ~M. Court on Tuesday next 4th inst. The ordinal v monthly meeting of Ohfncmini County Council will be held at PaeroT this afternoon. The new County offices for Ohincmuii ! County Council at Paeroa, aio now i completed, with the exception of a fewminor detail*. The work h;is be^n can ied out in a m. inner most creditablo to the contractor, Mr A. Moore. The usual monthly meeting of lh rt Te Aroha School Committee will be held on next Monday evening at eight o'clock. Bv reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that Mossis R. 11. Abbott and Co. have made a further reduction of two shillings in the piic* of: Onehunga Tweed Suits, which this cntei prising firm now offer 1o supply made to measure at the astonishing low figuie of thiity -seven shillings the suit We direct attention to Messrs 11. and J. C'lift'ord's adveitisemnnt, which will be found in another column. These enters prising* storekeepers announce that they are in a position to offer settlers and others special advantages in all departments, and a^k all who have not yet done so to send them a trial order. The list of piicos attached is certainly inducive. An angementa have been concluded for the construction of a line of railway 250 miles long in Western Australia on the land-grant system. The Government give 12,000 acres per milo which (as to quality) is equivalent to giving* all the land along the lino over nine miles back on each side. A more remarkable feature is that the necessary capital is to be sup^ plied by a German fiim, and it is intended to settle German immigrants along the line of railway. A woman can look a man straight in the eye, blink, and talk to him by the hour v lab 1 all the time she is pulling her neighbour's now bonnet to pieces mentally and dtvoiii ting* her own. No mortal man can do it. At the Melbourne Exhibition ihero are 2f>o flagstaff^, from which float flags of all nations, and 250 bannerets. Inside there it* a design di-phr) ing about 3000 flags. An excellent rc-ipc far mailing china. — Tdku a very thick solution oi gum-aiabic in water, and stir into it piaster of Paris until the ii.ixlme In-v mesa \ iscous paste. Apply iL with a biii^h to the fractured cd'^i'.s, .i ml stitk them together. In three da-fB the tuticlo cannot tig.iin be broken in the same place. Thy whiteness of the < ement renders it doubly valuable.

A considoivble amount of fencing work is being canied out at Waihoa on the '-■ections taken up by the village settlors. Tho lambing' on the Anna tidal c estate promises to be very satisfactory, although tho hawks are proving troublesome. At present thero arc some 700 lam by. The idea thnl education will prevent our growing youth fiom becoming criminals, is raqidly being dispelled. It is, ovciy where being recognised that children must bo taught to do as well as to know, otherwise theii knowledge \\ ill not be a \ cry safe preventative against their going adrift. Under tho heading " A Chief Source of Citme," the following leference to the question occurs in a copy oi" the New York Tribune to hand by the mail • — " Neither Sundayachool nor day-school training, nor even temperance, are fullest safeguards against criminality. The most common fact about convicts seems to bo that they wro never tin^ht habits of industry. This is the case j with nine-tenths of: those in tho Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, while quite a large proportion received a' good common schooling,' and about one-fifth wero ah nt'iinors from drink. Of 1500 at Joliet, in Illinois, 1087 were fairly educated ; 129 wero college graduates, 413 classed as intemporates, 781 moderate drinkois, 317 total abstainers Of G6B admitted lastyear, two-thirds have no trade. Evidently, it is time to give the hands more to Vlo in our schools than merely turning overbooks and using pencils and pens."