HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 197, 28 February 1877, Page 2

HAWERA.

(EROM AN OCCASIONAL nORRESroNPENT.) Your columns rarely contain anything in refmmco to (his Biding of the Patea County, and yet. nicthinks, it is not the least important of the trio. So, with your permission, I will venture a few remarks,

audit its doings. (At; tin.* rural ia:i;;, no comment is necessary, suilice. it to say (no fat ami lazy iiocks ami herds litorally live on clever, (be late rains having pro breed an nnlhniled ipianiily of tins ndfrilious herbage. Tin; (own of ILrwera, too, is in a nourishing slat", and is coming to the front with rapid si rides. New badness places arc springing up in eve.iy direction. A new linker, a wheelwrighr, blacksmith, tailor, buieber, ami two drapers, are now iii our midst, besides the old-established tradesmen. In addition to this influx of new business people, Mr Winks will have a large two-storied shop and dwelling creeled, whieh will bo an ornament to the town. IMr Prosser, to keep pace willi the times, builds a largo addition to the ilawera Hotel, including a spacious billiard-room. The Town Hall Co. 'nave now called up ball! the subscription, so it may fairly bo concluded that the Hall will soon be under way. It is rumored that an oitlsidc bank will soon open a branch in tin* town, which will get a fair share of trade. Also, that we shall soon have an auctioneer in our midst, so that it may reasonably bo inferred that the City of the Plains is making no mean effort to outstrip the present capital of the County in the race of commerce; Normandy is at present in a dormant state, after having shown it to be useless to vie with Ilawera. Although never doomed to be more than the key of the forest, it is a rising place. As there are so many new churns hero, perhaps you can give ns a little information regarding the registration of votes, ami also slate where forms are to be procured.