NOTES FROM ROTORUA.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 198, 29 July 1874, Page 3

NOTES FROM ROTORUA.

(FEOSf OCB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Things have been more active the past few days: I suppose the late presence of tho Government Land Purchase Officers, and the tiegoHationa with tho Maoris for land is the causj. About 20,000 acres splendid forest land have been purchasod within a few miles of this place, in the direction of Waitato, on behalf of the Government. There h a universal feeling amongst tho natives throughout the Arawa district lo dispose of the surplus land to tho Government.

Pome agitators amor,cat the natives have been scad.ng down petitions to Parliament, praying that private speculators moy be allowed to enter the field of land purchu-ing and leasing against the Government. The idea of so doing originated (it is slated) with some Napier natives, who were in the district some little time ago. In this ease, as m all other matters, the ra'm s nre not unanimous, and counter-petitions in support, of the Government continuing to have the exclusive right to purchase and lease native lands in this district are at present in course of signature. A great number of the natives here are preparing to leave for Maker U to attend a large gathering to be held there ou the occasion of the removal of the hones of some of the Arawa chiefs who were killed during the early part of the war. 1 here is no sign of the telegraph station being removed to Una settlement yet. It Wnß 8 „p po , e( i oy the inhabitants that all obstacles wore removed and that ere this some steps would at least have bemi taken towards tho removal of the office. ibe building which is used here as a schoolhouse ] 9 m a most dilapidated condition, and pictures to ones mind the kind D f building described in an o,d song f!8 being inhabited bv | Bryan O Lynn." It is n HGgriuv to those whose ; duty it u to attend to the mutter that, th» school i 1:1 1 ■■■’■’ "“' I 1 fl Mr and Mrs Tait have ; quite CT.ougu trouble with the children under | Ihmrcnarge without having to endure the dieI comfort, of a budding which is not fit for occut paney during any weather. I Ihe road from hero to Tuuranga ia in a very had state, necessarily -o on account of the wreat traffic over which it; passes. j 'i ho bridge (on the new road into tho scfi.Joj .neni,) across the Uluhina Creek is completed by I Messrs Me A nicy and Bum pus. * r | . 11 su prise io the “Luke district” | f,iat. only one koura has been seen lately B nd that j sm-h a miserable of the re/.,-.- mim | chom.o of limning* does not suit his dog in the m-mgsr sort, of h f e wiiy d oC S h 0 n<)t rt3l o | Poverty Bay.