THE HUNTLY PRESS PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT 1 P.M. Friday, February 20, 1914. Notes and Comments,,

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 6, 20 February 1914, Page 2

THE HUNTLY PRESS PUBLISH ED WEEKLY AT 1 P.M. Friday, February 20, 1914. Notes and Comments,,

Taupiri coal is so well known HUNTLY in any people AGAIN i are under die impression that this ta v oil rite fuel is m i ned a t Tan pi ri instead of at Huntly, while otliers seem to think that Huntly and Taupiri, like Newcastle and Ngaruawahia, are interchange* a nlo names for the one place. And l ids erroneous impression is so general that Huntly is debited with much that does not redound io its credit, whil9 everything that lias a tendency to give a place a good name is, strangely enough, labelled with its correct geographical designation. Huntly must necessarily bear the brunt 01. the misdoings of its own and these are not very numerous ;but it is scarcely 'He the misdeeds committed in other places on the guiltless mining centre. Last week two Taupiri cases were heard before the judge of the Supreme Court : one, of arson, which was distinguished by several unsavoury characteristics ; and the other, of assault, under circumstances which were not creditable to the perpetrator. In the city papers they were, erroneously designated“ Huntly ('uses ”, and that because the defendants in both happened to he remanded by the Huntly justices presiding over the Huntly Court, though a fatal small-pox esse occurred'' seven or eight miles from Huntly, and one of the combatants in a prize fight was killed in the melee that rook place five miles from the mining town, the one was head-lined a.s “ A TTn+al O.nn of

*■ , r aiitu uasß ai Huntly ”, and the other “ Huntly Man Killed in a Fight”. People not cognisant of local happenings, on reading such things, shake their heads piously as they ejaculate—“ What an awful place that Huntly must be”! The 'vi’ong (log geU die bad name, an I the stigma of an evil reputation lingers, while the people of tbe place, to which the notoriety (should lie affixed, remain blameless, continue to enjoy their pastoral innocence, and smile serenely at the effort of the inhabitants of the neighbouring town to disclaim tbo “bad eminence” to which it had been raised. The smile ca 1 Bed by the i gnorance of the geography ot Oceania, as displayed by foreigners, changes to a tear when ” our own people " refuse to distinguish between place names.