HAWERA.

Patea Mail, 10 May 1882, Page 3

HAWERA.

(from our. correspondent.)

OUR COURT HOUSE.

For the information of those who are not aware that there is such - a ■ briilding in Hawera, I will try and’ point put how it can be recognised.

Just imagine the most ethereal specimen of architecture that is possible, and look, about ; three ■ chains ..below the Town Hal! in Princea-street, and you will fetch it. Our court house .was designed and built a few years before civilisation came into this country, and our liberal Government are fond of relics, so they have kept this one. -Now it is passing strange .that our townspeople don’t look at it in theisame- light: they want something new 1 . ■'•lt’s bad taste, because we are told that our forefathers could not be rubbed ont for. architecture. But it is not the outside appearance only that annoys our citizens, it is the inside: they object to going there to be’ eaten with court house fleas. Now; those fleas I consider to be the most useful'of animals, because if ydif can have the satisfactioh of knowing : thht the lawyers who frequent there are perforated with flea bites, you feel a sort of satisfaction that your bill of costs is not paid for in vain. I heard one man remark that one Hawera conrt house flea was calculated to cause more blasphemy than fourteen teams of bullbcksV;J but I think; he was only joking. : - Our lawyers though are of the right sort. Why ; on Thursday evening tliey actually supplied lights because theyalid not think that the expense should be borne - fly the , Government. ; .Justice must- be carried out at any cost (and the clients will find the cost when they receive their lawyer’s bill well waxed.) Our court house is not large, but it is compact; about 30° people will fill it up, and when those thirty are butchers interested in a case, and just arrived-from a slaughter-yard, ; the : effluvia ! is ; not calculated to make a fellow enjoy . his supper. The furniture in the court house is not grand,.-butrit unique. Tbei;e.are about twelve different sorts of chairs there, and .if we don’t like 'chairs dhere are forms: all ancient.! And yet we, ar| not happy. - ; Yah.!. I’ll, quit some: people are never satisfied. n-.--,.! •• • ■ >;

THINGS IN GENERAL. Wc have Tost a “ limb of The law.” in Mr Barley man, who has gone to seek fresh fibklfTand pastures new sbraewhei;c about, Blenheiui. ; A. few. of his Mends invited him to a supper at Owen’s Hotel last Wednesday, and mourned oyer his departure. ' Constable, Roach, who is in charge of the police department during, the absence of Sergt. Cahill, rah a drunk /in op Thursday'evening. He was dishiibseß the following .morning with a caution* He explained that he had,come up from Patea in the evening and got very wet! There is some talk of resuscitating the Harmonic Society. I sincerely hope |t will be done, for bur musical entertainments here are very few and far between

and there is plenty of talent if only dvorked* up... 7 I On Sunday the Venerable^Archdeacon Thorpb preached in the English" church botlfmOrning and evening.' Before the sermbh in the evening he’alluded to the delay in getting a clergyman'appointed here, and said that he could: not wonder at the parishioners getting; a little impatient,* biit "he would ask them 5 to wait a little longer, as it was how the intention to obtain a clergyman from England, The rev. gentleman stated that in nearly every diocese in New Zealand they were short-handed.

Informations have beenllaird r against several persons for infringements of the Animals' Protection Act.' ■ i'hedr also •hat a few names and' delinquents h.ave been taken down your way. I hope it will be a warning to’ 'others, and make them take licenses out before they are caught. .;■>