HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 446, 23 July 1879, Page 2

HAWERA.

(FROM . OUR OWN correspondent.) Since the native excitement has lapsed, there has been little or nothing going on hero. Last week a little excitement was raised when it was found that the Carlyle and Hawera Cavalry were going to test their shooting powers. The result astonished some of the shootists when they found that the Hawera’s had won, as the scoring was anything bat up to the average. The bad times do not appear to effect everybody, as is proved by Mrs Smith, the draper, who is erecting a two storey building on the section adjoining Mr Davidson’s store. It is next door to an impossibility to sell a section now. One person the other day thought he would have a lark, and confidentally told another person that he wanted to buy a section. The words were hardly out of his mouth when he was besieged by a furious moh of commission agents; who so dinned into the unfortunate- man’s head, the advantage of the sections they-had to sell, that he rushed out and telegraphed to Wellington'to enquire if there was room for one more in the lunatic asylum, and in the event of that proving a failure, he went

to see the undertakers and asked them to send in tenders for a coffin. I should advise any person that wants to invest any money in sections in the rising township of Hawera to be careful how he goes about it, and to hear in mind that Wellington is a long way to go, and a funeral is rather an expensive way of buying sections. The natives that have come back from Parihaka give little or no information. They say there will be no more ploughing, but still appear to believe in Te Whiti.