THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 11, 1907, Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 333, 11 October 1907, Page 2

THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 11, 1907, Local and General.

Ht-id , ver—To Rau-a-moa, Opa rau H u'oru, le<iere and paragraphs. On Saturday, October 26th, Mr T. D. Hamilton will bold an auction sale of crockery, glassware and sundries. The Kawhia County Council sit-on M niday next, to bn bo foiJowed by Harbour Board and Medical Club meetings. W<* regret to learn that the Hon* W. W. M‘C»rdle, M.L.C., has been laid np for some time pact with a rd er eeriaaa illness. X> tomatoes have boon obtainable »a Neiaon during the past few weeks, h.viug been sown iu heated glass h- u.o f . They ar.) at the fancy price of 2 6d a lb. Ou Wediesd.y noruing Mr T. Aii-l-wn, of Oparau. was thrown from hts horse, with the result that hi* right shoulder wa*? dislocated, uecessi’atinx Dr C.Campbell Jenkins* sue niiop.

Taking advantage of a fine spell the s.s. B-jt.besay made a trip to Marokopa on Monday with a full cargo. On Tuesday she left with a cargo of timber for Harihari, took from there 20 bales of flax and 42 of tow, and returned to Kawhia. She is now loaded for Aotoa, awaiting the weather to moderate. It is statol on exwitaut authority that the Hon. Muhuta Tawbaio, M.L.C., intends to divide half of his interest in the Moerangißl. ck, Handy, Auckland, among his lancl’ees toll? were. The gift means the partition of 16,000 ucres .ttnoi g tbo?e who agree to the only jj:i »a ■( the gift, which is that the land ball bn worked and tot allowed to remain idle.—Exchange.

The Oparan Ferry pant, which bn ke away last week, hoe been again placed in position* We are glad to note that Mr J. Heffey hag again taken h’t place as mate of the s.s. Waitangi, after being ashore owing to sickness. Teuuia cnthuniasrs are reminded of die annual meeting of the Kawhis Harbjur c'ub, which is advertised to t>ke place on Wednesday next. Cricketers appuar to be scarce., jn Kswliia. Only three attended in res pouse to tbo advertisement in our last last issue of the Hnnn-tl m»ntb. turally no busiuos w:.g rr.nxac d. Persons who require h tir»t*clat>e piano on very easy terms uro advised to read the new advertisement of the

Loudon and Berlin Pifiino Co. on out back page.* We learn that the H-m. W. W. M*Cardle, M.L.G., interviewed the Unief Judge of the Native Land Court re a sitting of the Court at Kawhia, and received the following reply: “ I shall fix a sitting of the Court in Kawhia as soon ns Lcin-sparo a j idge for such sitting, which [ trust will be in a month or LwO3 time.” -

At a meeting of the school committee cn Monday accounts am >uoting to £3 16a 4d wore passed for payment. The folio wing resolution whs carried: “That this commit! e lhank Mr Green-lade, Mil.lt, for his remark- 1 on ho action of the Government in sending a highly paid official to Eng land to get information tv technical education, when there are many I laces in the Dominion, and more es I pecially in Ibis part of the King Country, where there are no ‘-choola and the children are giowing np without education.” The New Zealand L>au and Mercantile Agency Co , have received the following cable from their Lindon office:— ‘‘Wool: As Com pa rad with last Baled closing rates prices are higher by about par to 5 per cent, for coarse greasy crossbred, coarse crossbred -liptj, and medium crossbred

slips. Higher by about 5 per cent, for coarse scoured crossbred, medium scoured crossbred and fine crossbred siipe, and about the sumo for medium greasy crossbred. Market closed strong for all sorts of wool.” . There were about 25 couples pre* sent at the dance in aid of the Kawaia Public Library, which eventuated on Friday night last, and as a rosult the object will benefit to the extent of about £2. Tne mo sic was sappii id bv Mrs Langley, Misses Stevens, Treanor, Thompson, Mr Aubin, (piano), and Jonathan (piocola), whilst Mr E. D. Hamilton was M. 0. With their usual generosity the ladies provided the sapper. Daring the evening a musical item. “The Witches’ Flight” was played by Mrs Langley and Mr R. M‘Carthy (piano), and Mias A. Hamilton (violin). Miss Hamilton sang “Cail Me back” (with violin obligato): Miss Thompson “The Carnival,” and Mr E. Aabiu “Peg away,” each item being well rendered and equally well received. The accompaniments were played by Mrs Langley, Miss Hampton and Mr Aubin. Before the gathering broke up Mr M‘Cartby, on behalf of the committee, thanked all who had assisted towards making the evening ao sacoessfnl.

i Our attention bas been called to the state of the beach road between Kawhia and the Oparau Ferry, more especially to that portion near Kawaroa, which has been aptly termed a “death trap ” Here, for a distance of about five chains, the road is blocked, and a detour on to a boggy beach has to be made. This cau be done on horseback, but to drive a mob of cattle that way is absolutely impossible. Mr W. A. Mason informs us that he will be taking about 150 cattle to the Waikato shortly, and on account of this piece of road will have to drive them over the Aotea Beach, and thence via Te Mata, Waitetuna and Whatawhata. Now, just note what this five chains of bad roads means : The eattle will now have to travel over eight miles of beaob, ford three rivers (one particularly bad), and the journey will be lengthened by 12 miles, which will take from la to 2s per head off the selling value. Mr Mason thus is taxed anything from £l2 10s to £2O all fjr five chains of road. To this must be added the sum of over £7 which the Te Rau-a-moa and Pirongia people would have received for accommodat*

pau-waiUR UUO UttbbiU, etc. It is stated that Mr 0. King will take bis lot of 100 the same way. The fact of this number of stock going out shows the progress that Kawhia is making; but we regret to say that the condition of the roads is not in keep. iog with that prosperity, as this will be the first time that cattle have been blocked. When the hardships our set* Hers undergo are rMognissd it is little wonder that in this issue over fire columns of our space is devoted to the subject of roads.