URENUI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8057, 5 March 1906, Page 2

URENUI.

I I'i;om Oi'it Owy Com:im>o\ The local auctioneers sheep lair i'soaic •JililO entries) was held last JJ'onlay, when a iarge number of settlors was present. The township had a very li.eiy appearance, quite dill'crcnt from Ihe past few days, during which many of oiii' residents have been on enjoyment bent at Tongaporulti licgatta and at Auakmo .Sports, This is Ihe great month of the year for holiday making. Mrs A. It. ilalcombe, of I'eru (irove, has just gone to Auckland; Miss Wilson' and lier brother arc away in the King Countiw; Mrs J. Hell is having a trip to the iNoi'lli; and Mr J. Pascoe is visitmif I,lie West Coast. Kesidents welcome the butchers' war, which is having the ell'ect of considerably lowering the price of meat, and not before needed. Further reduction is to follow. May it soon he. Colonel L'lVcday paid his li;'st visit to l.'reuui on Thursday, when lie inspivU'd the school cadets. Tlie corps is of very recent formation, but they carried out the variuus movements in a workmanlike manner, and were complinicnte.l by the Colonel, particularly upon their marching. Their mentor, Mr Pope, who holds ;i commission in the Waitara .liillos, is au enthusiastic volunteer, and tiie success of his pupils must he gratifying to him. It is proposed during the current month to hold a cadet battalion camp at benti y Hill, where doubtless Crenui will be represented. The IJrcnui Hide Club tired a scratch match at the range 011 Tli.irsday, the object being | 0 select a team for' the mutch against visitors. Mr C. Greenwood iiiadi' llie hest shooting. The ilium il sports lake phicc 011 Ihe Hlh nisi. A very enjoyable event should be Ihe Maypole dancing by Ihe school girls, who won lliis competition at \Vailara last King's birthdav. The sawing and chopping events, too. will create considerable interest.

The initial C.'s of Clifton County Council have usually been supposed to caution, conscience, common sense. This a a popular error. They tan 1 for cadaverous, callous, cranky! Only a 'dead body' would try to resurrect a 101 l gate-a, thing as dead as Dick Turpin, of sainted memory, only an assembly • without feeling' would attempt to "levy tax on one p;irl of til' country, and leave the other severely alone.

Only a ' cranky ' crowd would su""e.st the introduction of such a costlv niotliod of collecting revenue. > r 0 ". L.L.I. \onre born a few centuries bill'. Have a new birthday, and close lip the 101 l gate idea or—niif. scd. Since receipt $f the above the Clifton Umnly Council, by I to 2, have decided m lavour of erecting the toll gate