TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Aroha, Monday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1918, 21 October 1884, Page 2

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Aroha, Monday.

A meeting of householders at Waiorongomai was held in the schoolroom there on Saturday evening foi the purpose of considering the advisability of taking steps to h.ive that township, and a part of the Thames High School endowments therewith, proclaimed a town district. Owing paitly to the in clemency of the weather there was not a large attendance, and it was decided that the business should bo postponed till another evening. Some discussion took place, however, amongst those present respecting the advantages of the measure. It was the opinion of a few that it would be better if the two townships would unite and form a borough, and others held that the time was not yet ripe for that step. Another meeting for the further discussion of the subject will probably bo held next Saturday. With regard to the necessity that exists both at Waiorongomai and Te Aroha for some form of local government there cannot be two opinions. Many things require attention which the county council in its present impecunious condition cannot possibly undertake, and unless the inhabitants bestir themselves in the matter and acquire the right to manage their own affairs the improvements that are so much needed in both townships are likely to be indefinitely delayed. The settlers of Waitoa, following in the wake of other districts, have resoh ed upon establishing a cheese factory. A meeting of farmers and others interested was held on Saturday, and the necessity for the enterprise was fully recognised. The project has not been taken in hand sufficiently eaily to admit of much being done this season, but before next spring the move, ment will have taken practioal shape and will doubtless prove to bo as beneficial as similar undertakings elsewhere have been. A paragraph appears m last Wednesday's New Zealand Herald referring to the position in which the Te Aroha riding is placed in the county council by the late decision of the Resident Magistrate in the petition case. It statea that after two eleotions the ridmg is still without a member.' Thife'is not the fact, for in giving his decision upon Murphy's election, Mr Kenrick distinctly stated that although Cooper had not been properly elected, he had been declared duly elected by the same officer that had returned the other sitting metr.bQn, and he therefore held the seat on tho same grounds as the rest of the councillors held theirs, The weather is still of the most disagree* able kind. Scarcely a day passes without heavy rain, and the cold is lather sesere for so late a period of the spring. A rumour has got abroad here that the continuation of the railway from Murrinsville to this terminus is to be at once proceeded with. If true, it will give unbounded satisfaction to all resident in the district. Much inconvenience was caused by tho non-delivery of Thursday's Waikato Times, which has not yet arrived here.