TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1383, 14 May 1881, Page 2

TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Tui; Court for the hearing of Civil and Police cases, and the Warden's Court, wove held by Mr Kemick, yesterday and to day. Tuesday was the day to which the sitting had been adjourned from the week before, and some of the outsettlers who had ridden in, from considei able distances maybe, to attend to important business, were thciefore put to the expense and inconvenience of spending a night and another day away from their homes, were loud in their complaints of the want of more frequent and more punctual holding of Court here. Not a word can be said, of course, against Mr Kennck, as all have experienced his perfect willingness to submit to any amount of oveiwork and sacrifice of Ins own comtort, in the performance of not only his strict duties, but any further acts of cheeiful and kindly assistance in the promotion ot Te Aiolia's interests that he had in hi> power, but the over niggardly way of the Government in putting the performance of the official duties of so wide a district upon the shoulders of one man, and the refusal of proper means of eO m muni ot, turn between one point and another is the subject of remark.

Meeting of Shareholders. A meeting was called of the shareholders, at O'llolloran's hotel, yesterday afternoon, to hear the reply of the Board of Education to the memorial sent through Mr Kennck, asking tor the erection ot Te Aroha into a school district, and the provision of a building and school requirements. The Board replied that, Avlnle they were not prepared at present to build a school, they would prepaied to provide a capitation fee of ■C 4 per head per annum for each child towards the payment of an instruction As it was believed that over 40 children would at once attend, and a make-shift building could be found for the present and the Rev. W. Calder moreover wiotc, intimating that he could find a gentleman willing to peiform the duties ot teacher for £\oo per annum, a committee was ioimed to obtain an exact list of the pupils to attend, and to wnte again to the Board asking for a further consideiation of the subject as far as concerns the providing of school fittings, and tiio advisability oi the payment of a h\ed a.Uaiy to <i teacher. It was generally supposed tli at after the winter, when the stability and progressive power of the settlement shall have been thorougly tested, the Government will not refuse the building lequired. The list furnished gives the names of over 70 children to attend at once. This i-^ another step in advance, at all events, and we must not 3top in the picking up of our own giains in order to gutdgc other less deserving bantlings the grams thrown to them before us.

Warden's Court. In the Warden's Court, several cases refoiimgto foifeiture and possession of claims were decided, transfers of shares were registered, and the Napier (Lite the Auckland), and the Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle claims were registered. The following now claims were also vegUteieil as marked out :—: — The Clunes, the Forlorn Hope, the Moonlight, the Buck, the Duke, the Wanganui, and the Little Jessie. There were no police cases for beamier.

The Battery. The battery is still working away full swum, ami, besides the Pi nice of Wales' stuff that h still allowing about the leturu I mentioned in a former letter, it lus finished off the Our Boys and the Dovecot, the proceeds of which I shall be able to give in my next letter. The iShotover and the Moonlight, two claims that are looked to with considerable interest here, have brought down a bupply that is to be taken in hand to-morrow and Saturday. Altogether, there is no want of business or activity, and plenty of confidence in the results to be shown by claims that Mould alone establish the goldfield. The great mystery of a new and wonderful prospect that is to make a sen&ation has not been made public propeity yet, but I fancy it will be found to be not very far from a district 1 have visited aud described. P evalence of Low Fever. From here to the Thames there seems to be a prevalence of sickness amongst the children that takes the form of low fever, which, though hardly perhaps typhoid, is of somewhat similar character. I —May 13th.

Lyxoh Law. — ■ A terrible lynching crime occured at Springfield, Tennessee. Last September nine n >groes murdered with horrible barbarity a farmer named Lagrade plunder being their object. All were caught and confined in Springfield Gaol. One week afterwards a mob took two of them from tho prison and lynched theoi, at the same time lynching another murderer confined there. Anotherpnsoner after confessing the crime, died in prison. Last week the trial beiran at Springfield, closing with the judge's charge tp the jury. On Friday week the court wa3 closed, and the sheriff started with the prisoners in his charge to the prison. A mob met him at tbe door and captured the prisoners. They then took procession of the conrt. house and hanged five of them to the verandah of the court-houae door. Tyro other ne?roes, who had turned State evidence, were pursued during the night and killed. Thus ten ' murders avenged that of Lagrade. The mob of lynchera numbered 200. The five corpses dangled on the court-house verandah till they were cut down on the Saturday. Tho Tenesaee Senate unanimously passed a resolution 1 condemning lyuchii^g, declaring that these mobs mu^t be suppressed if it tak«s the whole power of the Stale to do ; calling on the governor to arrest and punish the lynchers, and promising the active cooperation of the legislature.