Waiorongomai.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2101, 7 May 1898, Page 2

Waiorongomai.

(From our own correspondent.)

Drama: the week considerable gross has been made by Mr Hirst, the 4 contractor for the teacher’s residence, and providing the weather keeps favourable the building will be finished in four or five weeks.

We nearly had a war scare on Tuesday last when a number of Maoris, some of them carrying guns, rode into - Waiorongomai and camped in the titree near the school house. It was suggested to send an urgent telegram ‘to Lieutenant Wild* in the absence of Captafu Whiteley, to call'out the Te Aroha Rifle Volunteers for our protection. It appears these Maoris came from Okoroire and camped in Waiorongomai only with the object of gum digging in this district. They had plenty of dogs with them, and the local dog-tax collector ought to be informed that these dogs had no collars on.

On Saturday last the valuable racing mare, Waiorongomai, returned to her owner’s estate at Wairakau, where she will be kept during the winter months. At tho Raster meeting recently held at EPerslie, Waiorongomai ran second in the Easter handicap, and won the Autumn Handicap (400 sovs) on the feUtfwing day, so ifc will be seen she h¥s well earned her winter oats \ McNicol, the P°P u lar owder, has not yet returned but we are pleased to wafrflutt hishealth is improving a washday by the Aroha ttoid Mining Company, and it is reported that the; amount distributed in wages is the smallest sum received for many months. - a ■ \ Although (he shooting season opened on Monday, the ‘ bang,’ ‘ bang,’ once such a familiar sound in this district, is not heard owing to thejscarcity of game. There are no pigeons in the bush althougth he trees are loaded with berries. Last your the pigeons had come and were mostly ail gone before the season opened. Cold, frosty, weather •is almost • sure fd bring a number of these birds from the King Country where they are numerous.

The war news is of a less exciting character. The Americans are preparing to engage the Spanish fleet off Puerto Rica, l'he Cape Verde squadron of the Spanish navy has returned for reinforcements before crossing the Atlantic? * We call attention to an impouns '%- notice in another column.

Football match this afternoon in Lipßey r s paddock. The total population of the colony, Europeans and Maoris, is estimated it 770,58.7. . '

v Mr Grant, District Manager of the Auckland Railways, who leaves Te Aroha for Auckland this morning* informed us yesterday that when he left Rotorua was being visited by a series! of slight intermittent, but harmless,, earth tremors. , The Waitoa Road Board met at Ngutumauga on Thursday to considera complaint lodged about the carrying out of a contract there. The Board inspected the work,' but considered it. had been done satisfactorily.

There is nothing of importance- to* report from the seat of the Maori trouble at Rawene. A-detachment of 100 Auckland Volunteers have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to take the field at the iuspecfc&ftfe ) The first Annual Ball of tlie* No. I Company Ohinemuri Rifle Volunteers, will be held m the Criterion Theatreon May 24th. We understand doubletickets will be 7s 6d, extra lady 2s 6d.. Preparations have been made with a. local caterer for the supply of refreshments. The attendance should be; large and the affair successful..

The heart of every man who knows .- even a shadow of the adverse.-.- ..circumstances Queen Christina, Regent of Spain, has, so long, and so bravely, struggled against must bleed for herat the present crisis in- her history andin that' of her unfor unate childTo morrow we may learn that am anti-dyoastic revolution has'set in, and that the royal mother and child are fugitives. For twelve years the Queen has discharged her duties faultlessly - As the mother of the future- kiugr Queen Christina is admirable.. She-is- ’ devotedly attached to harm but is m sfr’ct disciplinarian, and her one aim; is to fit him for the ; -position he wills one day have, to occupy. He attends her at many of her audiences, 1 so that to act like a king has become to him as second nature/ His-mother is an accomplished linguist-, and in order to* make the hard read of learning pleasanter- to him, she wrote forfejis espociaf use an easy .and amusing Germaut grammar, German- being the language which presented most diffibnlties t > him. Her kindness; of heart And. sy mpatliy for, th e poor and: suffering. are proverbial in Spain, and have gone far to. secure for her the warm- esteemi of her people, while the old' Spanish nobility are prepared to doe- for her toa man. ;

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