WAITAHUNA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume 22, Issue 277, 22 May 1873, Page 5

WAITAHUNA.

(From our own Correspondent). Politics, nothing but politics, has been the subject of discussion for the last eight or ten days. Every man appears to have become a politican, and many wordy battles have taken place between the Macandrewites and the Reidites, both parties being represented here. while each party advocated its own particular views, both regretted that so much of die public moneys should have been expended to so little purpose. People cannot overlook the fact that there are some members of the Council whose interest it \ is to prolong the session — men who have not so much as a hut on the goldfields to call their own, and who, when the Council is not in session, find it a difficult matter to supply themselves with the bare necessaries of life. A meeting of the Waitahuna Cemetery Trustees, was held on Saturday, 17th inst. ; Mes&ra Cook, Eadie, Norman, M'Taggart and Clarke being present. The trustees some time ago, leased a portion of the cemetery reserve, and the lessee having refused to pay the last halfyear's rent, it was resolved that legal proceedings should be instituted against him for its recovery. It was also resolved that certain repairs be effected on fence, enclosing land leased, at expense of lessee. The Rev. Mr. Beaumont of the Episcopal Church, Lawrence, is at present the only clergyman who regularly holds service here. We are sometimes visited by a Presbyterian clergyman, but of late these visits have been of very rare occurrence indeed ; in consequence, those who, like myself, profess to belong to this Church, have had to endure the infliction of the lay element to a greater extent than many of us have been able to appreciate. In mining matters there is little to be said. One or two claims in the gully continue to pay the shareholders fair wages, while others are what diggers call "tucker" claims. At Havelock, the rain which fell during | the past week, greatly interfered with mining operations, as it is, from the system there carried on, a fine weather diggings. An abundant supply of water has, however, been provided to work the many water-wheels in its neighborhood. The road through the township is almost knee-deep in mud, which makes travelling to those whose business takes them from home, the reverse from agreeable. The Rev. Mr. Kilgour, but recently arrived from Scotland, preached in Coghill's Assembly Room, on Sunday last in the evening, and in the Schoolhouae, Main Gully, in the afternoon. The attendance at both services was large.