HAWERA.

Patea Mail, 18 June 1881, Page 3

HAWERA.

The Mail has over 90 subscribers between Manuiahi and Stratford.

BRANCH OFFICE OF THE MAIL, Frida} 7 Evening. It is expected that the first train from Normanby to New Plymouth will run today, but nothing definite is known. Surely it would not be too much to expect from the manager that due notice should have been given if the above is the case. Mr Barrow, at present stationmnster at Inglewood, is to occupy that position at Normanby. The train running to Normanby will prove a great boon to the travelling public, as I hear that the Mountain road is getting in a fearful state in consequence of the heavy timber traffic. A great number of Maoris have passed through here during the week en route for the Prophet’s abode. I believe they expect the released prisoners every day, and many relations and friends have gone up to have a good tangi over them. Very few of those released last month have made their way to their own pahs, but have remained at Parihaka.

I see by the Wellington papers that the unemployed arc again agitating. I believe labor here is pretty scarce, and am confident that a good many who care to work need not be long idle. It is only those people who will not leave large centres for fear that they will have really to do some manual labor that constitute the unemployed. There is enough ditch and banking advertised for at the present time to employ all the surplus labor in this district.