HAWERA.

Patea Mail, 8 January 1881, Page 3

HAWERA.

The Mail has over 90 subscribers behveen Manutahi and Stratford. BRANCH OFFICE OF THE MAIL, Friday Evening. The Hawera Light Horse fired a match with the Waverley Horse yesterday, but the latter proved too good, having scored 521 to our 496. The following" is the score of the Hawera Light Horse :

Purchasers on the Waimate do not intend to let the land lie idle. Houses, though small at pi-esent, are being erected, and one sees all over the Plains signs of European occupation. Several miles of ditch-and-banking are being gone on with, although this is not the proper season for such work. New settlers seem anxious at once to stock their holdings. At Manaia township several business places are going up. Mr Langley’s store will shortly be completed. An hotel is also about to be erected. Mr Nicol, of New Plymouth, is calling for tenders for a large twostorey building, and the Government are calling for the erection of a Land office. In a year’s time the whole feature of the Plains will be altered, and instead of this grand land lying an idle waste, as it has for so many years through the neglect of that chief of humbugs, Sir Donald McLean, it will soon present to the then traveller a marked contrast from last year. Many persons are taking advantage of the open land at present by running cattle wherever there is good feed. I also hear from Opunaki of several new buildings in contemplation at that township. The inhabitants are calling a meeting in order to take the necessary steps to form a Town Board.

Yards ; 150 200 300 Tl. Sergt. Sutton 18 17 14 49 Trooper Urwin 18 17 12 47 Segt. Bayly 16 14 15 45 Trooper Flint 16 15 12 43 Trooper Willey 15 14 12 41 Trooper Mason 14 16 11 41 Trooper H. Bayly... 17 13 11 41 Trooper Farrington 16 14 11 41 Trooper Lysaght ... 15 15 10 40 Trooper Lee 17 11 12 40 Lieut. Johnston 15 14 7 36 Sergt.-Major Lloyd 14 12 6 32