HAWERA.

Patea Mail, 28 October 1880, Page 3

HAWERA.

The Mail has over 90 subscribers between Manuiahl and Stratford. [f ROM OUn CORBESrOSD F, NT . J BRANCH OFFICE OF THE MAIL. Wednesday Evening. The sale of Town Board leases to-day fetched good prices. The Land Office for Hawera will be (be cottage know as the Native Office, but Mr Wilkinson will also occupy the room in front of the Town Hall for Court work. Considering the she of Hawera and its importance, our public buildings scarcely add to the beauty of the town, and strangers mud wonder that this is so, but it can scarcely be put down to the inhabitants’ fault. If representing and agitating had any effect, our Government buildings would be a credit to a much larger place. Visitors are still arriving hero to attend the land saloon Friday. Competition will most likely be keen, and prices range high. Persons here cannot understand the Government employing a detachment of the Public Works contingent at Manulahi on the railway works, where their labor will be utterly' useless for the present, instead of employing them on the formation between this and Normanby,

Mr A. J. Whittaker was elected yesterday to the vacancy on the Town Board, lie being the only' candidate. The way' the applications for deferred payment lands on the Plains were made has rather surprised people. Everybody thought the whole of (ho sections would have been applied for, but it would seem that applicants in most cases picked the same sections ; nor docs it seem at present that the vacant sections will bo readi ! y taken up, considering that only' two sections were applied for y'esterday. Probably this is in consequence of so many having barred themselves from apph'ingagain until after the sale.

Messrs. Wilson and McGuire, J.P.’s, were on Monday engaged some considerable time in hearing a charge against William Dawson, law clerk, for larceny'as a bailee of £B, paid to the defendant for Mr Barrington by' Mr Qninlivan. After hearing the evidence, the magistrates committed defendant for trial at the next sitting of the District Court at Patea ; bail being allowed in two sureties of £l2 10s each, and himself in £25.