TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Akoha, Friday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2116, 30 January 1886, Page 3

TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Akoha, Friday.

The annual meeting of subscribers to the - public library, was held in tho readingroom of the institutions on Wednesday evening. Mr J. Furrell, vice-president, occupied the chair. The report and balance-sheet for tho year ending December 3lBt. were read and adopted. It is satisfactory to note that notwithstanding the dullness that prevailed during the greater part of the twelve months the institution is still in a sound state financially. There has been no appreciable diminution in the number of subscribers, the average being forty as against forty-two during the previous year. The balance-sheet showed the receipts to be as follows. In hand at commencement of year 1889, £22 Os lid, subscriptions during year, £40 2a ; donation, £1 ; Government subsidy, £15 7« 3d ; proceeds of concert, £15 13s 6d ; sulo of old books and papers, £0 Gs ; total, £100 17s Bd. Expenditure: Books, £22 12s; rent, £20 3s ; librarian, £35 ; expenses connected with concert, £6 3s Gd ; firewood, lighting, &c, £3 19s Gd ; advertising, &c., £2 0s (id ; balance in hand, December 31st., 1885, £10 13s 2d. Total, £100 17s Bd. Officebearers for the cut rent year were elected as follows :— President, Mr J. B. Whyte, M.H.K. ; vice-presidents, Messrs J. Farrell and F. Pavitt ; treasurer, Mr Geo. Wilson ; secretary, Mr A. Menzies ; members of cominitte, Messrs Mills, l>obson, Gibbons, Heathcote, Abier, Barnes, Frazer, Ilott, Robson, Burgess, W. Wilson »nd Whitehouse. It was strongly urged by some of the subscribers present that an effort should be made to get a. suitable building erected. This matter will shortly receive the attention of the new committee, and in all probability subscribers will have the satisfaction before many months are over of meeting in an edifice entirely their own. A complete break has now taken place in the weather here. Yesterday afternoon it commenced to rain slightly and throughout the night there has been a steady fall. There is every appearance of its continuing for a time, and a supply of water sufficient to work the battery, and thereby give a fresh start to mining operations generally at Waiorongomai n.ay now be calculated on with a terrible degree of certainty. Another satisfactory item of news relating to mining is the excellent return obtained from the trial parcels of stuff sent to the Thames from the prospectors' claims on the Tui creek reef. One parcel weighing 30 cwt., taken from the No. 1 claim at the rate of 2oz. 3 dwts. 11 grs. of gold and t>7oz. 12 dwts. 9 gra. of silver per ton. Another small lot from the No. 2 claim gave a return equal to loz. Gdwts. 3grs. of gold per ton, and 85oz. ldwt. 22grs. of silver. In round numbers, the value of the bullion obtained from each of the parcels is about £22 per ton, a really splendid yield, and taken, as they were, from places a considerable distance apart on the reef, the trials herve to prove, even though the stuff may have been selected, that the anticipations first formed regarding the richness of the lode are likely to be fully realised. This will impart fresh vigour to operations along the line of the reef, but until there is a further expenditure of money on trackmaking, none of the other claims will be able to forward stuff to the Thames or elsewhere for treatment. There is still a large portion of the Government and county grants unexpended, and the Ohinemuri Council is being urged to complete the formation of tho necessary branch roads to connect the claims north and south of the prospectors' with the existing track. No doubt these works will now be set about quickly, and favourable reports may soon be looked for from these claims, when they have the facilities which the prospectors' now have for sending away their stuff.