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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 421, 30 April 1879, Page 2

The following graphic picture isfrom the Wairarapa Standard :—Signs of the times are beginning to obtrudes themselves on public notice. We notice men sitting on fences swinging their legs, in secluded nooks. Business men are to be seen congregated in groups discussing perhaps the insolvency of some debtor. And last, but most terrible of all to the poor fellows concerned, three riderless horses were hung up outside one of the Banks after three o’clock, and the riders were no doubt on the monetary rack in the “ strong room” of the manager. The Taranaki Herald of Thursday last says ;—The reported removal of surveyors from the eastern side of the Mountain Road on Monday last, has been construed as showing further hostile intent on the part of the natives, notwithstanding the emphatic assurances by Te Whiti that there will be no fighting. Fortunately, there is no ground for the report. At any rate, the Chief Surveyor ( Mr T. Humphries), who was himself with the surveyors all the week, and only left the camp yesterday at noon, knew nothing whatever about it ; and the surveyors were actually at work when he left, thougli it was reported that they were stopped on Monday. A further report that McLean’s men had been stopped by natives from working oh the Mountain Hoad also proves uutrue—they being at work yesterday when Mr Humphries oaased. Even should the surveyors be stopped where now employed . there will be no cause for alarm, as the land n .w being surveyed is part and parcel of the Plains land, which the natives claim ; and in stopping the survey the natives would but be finishing the work of removal which was commenced on the open The real foundation of the rumor appears to be that a number of natives, who had taken a sub-contract from Mr Partington, received orders from Te Whiti not to_ do any work for Europeans, and upon receiving the order they immediately . left ofE working, and took their departure. Referring to the Waimate question, the Sydney Morning Herald thinks “Sir Hercules Robinson has found no very inviting prospect on his arrival in New Zealand/’ and that “ the chief question that remains to be settled is not whether the Waimate Plains are to be owned.by the Maoris or the British, but whether the Governor of that part of New Zealand is tube Te Whiti, or Sir Hercules Robinson,” Riches will take to themselves wings" and fly away, unless you sprinkle the salt of economy on their tail. : A Beetle Pint.—A housekeeper who . makes a practice of borrowing a quart of milk, usuall makes a pint in returning it.