WAIORONGOMAI.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1715, 16 February 1895, Page 2

WAIORONGOMAI.

(From our own correspondent.)

The meanest theft I have heard of for a long time is the robbery of Mrs Hawkin’s orchard. She is a poor widow with a large family of young children, dependent on her cows and garden for a living, and with plums at a penny per pound, hors are stolen, and they say a married man was among the sneaks. , 1 . Mrs Jansen, too, whose husband is in the hospital, had the onion heads she was saving for seed demolished the other night. The footprints were either a man’s with a generous, or a boy’s with an elephantine allowance o± hoof. Mrs Samson’s plums have also been raided. . _ , __ It is gratifying to notice that Mr Inspector Goodwin, in his annual report, has singled out this school and grounds as among tho neatest and best kept in tho district. In miningastrong syndicate has been formed to further prospect the Hill. A gentloman, too, has been up of late, who oxpects to introduce a lot of outside capital iu a short time. Pending further developments I am not at liberty to say more.