WAIORONGOMAI. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Waiorongomai, Tuesday.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 370, 22 May 1889, Page 2

WAIORONGOMAI. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Waiorongomai, Tuesday.

Old Mining Accident Relief Fund : Thej meeting of members of the above, as convened to be, held in- the schoolroom j here? on Saturday 'evening last, was. a disgraceful failures-nobody turning up ; the counter attraction, haing the Tourist Minstrels performing in the Public Hall. It is very ipparent- that the old subscribers cue very little what becomes of the money now lyin, r useless ,in the Bank. This is the second time an attempt has been made to 'bring the members together, but the result in both insisnce§ has been nil, as all interest

in this matter appears now to be at an end through the apathy an<l inertness f-hown by the subscribers, It rests with the old Committee to say what is to be done. Ferguson Syndicates Mr Ferguson is at. present engaged repairing the waterrace and m'^k in q other preparations, to receive the new machinery The road to big reduction' works is nof in a very good state, of repair, and the machinery cannot be taken to its destination until it is further imnroved. Tpndeis ; I understand thnt Mr J. McLeod Murray's tender was te lowest, for driving 100 feet in the Phoenix tunnel, but I have heard that Mr William An Trews lays claim to one man's giound through which the diive will have to pas". He offers to relinquish his right for £60, but I have not heard whether or nob a settlement has b3en i arrived nt, Chancre of Postmaster : Mr Lovell leaves Waiorongo.mai at the end of this month for his new post at the, Thames, and will bo succeeded bv Mr Johnßrame' of the latter place. I understand Mr Lovells friends contemplate tendering him a com pi im entry ' social' previous to his departure. The Wesleyans here are bestirring themselves in the matter of a new church ;• the committee have already had an estimate prepared of the cost of same. The " Tourist Minstrels" played here on Saturday evening last, and had a bumper bouse, the songs and comlo eccentricities were much appreciated, the performers being repeatedly recalled. The takings realised Ljl2 4s. Accidents : I regret to report that Mr M. W. D. O'Keefe met with a nasty' accident on Friday ,last, by cutting, the inside portion of his knee with a tomahawk. It appears that he, was engaged cutting a root in a very awkward place, and the instrument being dull erlaneed off and inflicted the wound. The leg bled profusely atthetime,bntMrMoriarty his mate,, who luckily had a needle and thread in his coat, stitched up the cut and bandaged it with a handkerchief. After a little rest Mr O'Keefe started for herne, and, after about three hours managed to reach the township. Where the accident occurred is on Messrs Jamieson and Adams special claim) situated about threa miles in an easterly direction from the Premier mine. Mr O'Keefe when walking home had a very hard time of it, th? county over which he had to travel being very rough, Mr TX ,E. Clerk blistered bis hand somewhat severely while engaged working at the furnace, the injury beim? slight, but little notice was taken of it nt the time, but' after a few days the hand became very much swollen, and a large and- painful gathering formed theieon. The pain bpcmie at last so severe that Mr Clerk decided to proceed to Hamilton for mMicil advien, and left for there by train on Friday last, and has not yet returned. Mr Jenkins while getting through a wire fence on Sunday last, stumbled and fell to the ground, his left wrist coming' in contact with a piece of glass bottle, which cut it so severely that ifc will probably incapacitate him from wark for some days. Te A roll a Silver and Gold Mining Company : The roaster at the old tiiling plant has not been working this week. Ever since the erection of this roaster, the hricks inside have been constantly coming out, the expansion of the cylinder when it is heated causing them to loosen. The manager has caused the cylinder to be token to piece, and they are now fixinir the brick* in with muts the alteration nil I ho competed in si day or two, whpn the r-m^ter willbc a^iiin *et to work. The Bos*, pans are wm-kinir veuy satisfactorily. Half a dozen of the old berdans are now running on the roasted tailings Work at the battery in connection with the new twenty head of stampers being elected is progressing steadily. - Two of the beds to support the stamper boxes will be in position to-morrow. The belting to start another ten head of stampers is beingconnected. It is rumoured that Mr Jamieson, the Te Aroha S. ami G. M Co.'s Engineer, intends leaving here for Melbourne next week.