TE AWAMUTU [Own Correspondent.] Te Awamutu, Monday.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 318, 21 November 1888, Page 2

TE AW AMU TU [Own Correspondent.] Te Awamutu, Monday.

Since the rain, the crops in this district are looking remarkably well. Farmers are looking fdhvard to a prosperous, and, what they have notexperiencod for many years, a remunerative harvest. We all devoutly hope your goldfield will prove the success it is expected to be — if it is so we shall have a market for our produce at our doora. The interests of the two districts will be closely bound together in that case. Unfortunately the presentmismanagementof our railways is serious handicap on the farming industry. One of our settlers sent a ton of potatoes to a place between Morrinsville and Te Arobu, at a cost of 12s 4d. lie afterwards heard he could have sent two tons the same distance for twopence h'ss than it cosfc to send the one ton. Comment on such a system is needless. If your population increases to any great extent, I hope you will make your voices heard in the effort to alter this disgraceful state of affairs, for it will be as much to your interest to get your wants supplied cheaply as it will be for us to send our produce at a reasonable rate. "When our members are soliciting votes they express " holy horror and pious grief" at the bungling of the rail way department, hut when they get to tli3 city of the wind (bags), and rub shoulders with the autocrat of our railways, they suddenly discover he is not such a bad fellow after all j in fact, that he is a much maligned individual. (I should like to be a member's relative, holding an appointment in that department), The half-yearly drill of the jolunteer cavalry begins on Monday, 19th inst, when the corps will elect a captain in place of Captain Rutherford, resigned. They may get someone to fill the vacant commission, but they will not readily find a man to fill it as well, and with so much tact as he, I fenr tho old corps will soon be disbanded. The old order changeth ; the ranks are composed of youngsters and men who are not so intimately acquainted with each other as the original members wero, consequently there is not the same esprit de corps there n^ed to be. There is some talk of one ' of the sergeants (Mr Gresham) being appointed. Lie is a very enthusiastic volunteer. The report of a rich argentiferous ore found iv the neig'ibonihood of Jo Kniti is by no means reliable. A gentleman somewhat acquainted with such matters his been out for several days pro? peeling with the natives, but found nothing but l'mestone where the rich ore was said to Imve been found. He told trie he had not the slightest faith in the reported discovery. Many people say tlie stone looks suspiciously like that found in your district. Reports of rich finds are so common that no one here paid any attention to the reported discovery. 'I he Land Court at Otorohnnga has been adjourned for a short time. Judge Mair is giving unqualified satisfaction to the natives, even the loosers in the various cases express their satisfaction with his decisions, a somewhat unusual thing for natives, or indeed anyone else, to do.