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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 175, 9 December 1892, Page 5

Mt, Tongariro is again in active eruption. Rev. Joseph Blight preaches at Aratapu on Sunday evening. Messrs J, Dcnnin and M. Corcoran have been paying a visit to tne Okoroire Sanatorium. The Aratapu School is to be examined on Monday and Tuesday the 19th and 20th instants, and the other schools of the district within a week of those dates. Steerage passengers are now taken from Australia to New Zealand for one pound, and large numbers of the unemployed are coming to this colony by every boat. Mr S. Cooper, auctioneer, held an auction sale in Aratapu last Saturday afternoon hut owing to other attractions the attendance was not up to the average. A concert and dance is to be held in the Te Kopuru Hall to-morrow eveningwhen the charge for admission is to be Is fid.

The proceeds are to be devoted to the assistance of the Tatarariki Cricket Club funds. Those persons holding Slaughter-house licenses are reminded that their applications for renewals must be in by Tuesday next as the last meeting of the Council at which any renewal can bo considered will be held on Wednesday. The Aratapu School Committee met on Monday evening wneu it was decided to close the school for the Christmas holidays on Tuesday, the 20th inst and to re open on Tuesday, January 2-i-th, Mr Jay Gould, the multi-millionaire of New Work, died last Friday and is now buried in the same earth as the poorest, His wealth was estimated at 60,000,000 dollars and he has left every cent behind him. The Gpanake natives have fenced off' a road connecting the railway station with the main road and are willing to hand it over to the County free of charge if it is put in good order for traffic. At the Queen's College Sports, Auckland, William Lowrie won the Half Mile Handicap with 30yds start; came 3rd in the 120 yards Hurdle Handicap and won the Mile Handicap with a handicap of 60yds. Mr IT. ITammond offers for sale several properties in diflerent parts of the County, amongst them a five -roomed house with one acre of land at Aratapu. Also several sections in the Okahu and Kopuru Ridings. We are informed that the s’.s. ICna ran into the Port Albert cutter, Olive, last night somewhere in the neighbourhood ofTikiuui. The cutter sustained some damage but, nothing very serious. The Swedish barque Albatross, Captain Frockberg, was towed down to Kopuru by the steamers yesterday about noon to complete her loading. The captain and his officers made many friends in Aratapu, especially amongst the young, and his departure will be much regretted. Ah Chee, the well known Auckland Chinee restaurant keeper, who was charged at the Supreme Court with having received stolen goods and whose trial occupied two days, has been acquitted. Ten of Auck land’s leading citizens testified to his good character. Mt Eden has been created a Public Domain and the Mayor of Auckland, the Chairmen ol the Mt Eden and Epsom Road Boards together with Messrs G-eo. Harper, T. Thompson, It. Udy and A. Heather have been appointed the Mount Eden Domain Board. The property placed under their control comprises sixty three acres. The County Chairman and Engineer paid a visit to the coveted ballast pit in the Kailiu Valley on Saturday last and have a report to lav before the Council at its next meeting. There is, we believe, a fair chance of securing shingle ballast from the pit at a cost of about four shillings delivered in Dargavilie. Times are improving at Kopuru and business is looking up: Mr Thompson had. two bullocks in his snap last Saturday and disposed of all his roasts at 6d and 7d a pound. He could have disposed of more roasts had he had them on hand. Other business people at Kopuru no doubt could tell a somewhat similar story. On Friday next there is to be an interesting time at Te Kopuru. Some friends have kindiy offered prizes to the Kopuru School children for the best attendance since the Midwinter holidays, and for Spelling and Arithmetic in the third and fourth Standards. Songs and recitations will be given by the school children. The examination takes place on Friday. The Howick School Committee have laid a complaint against Inspector Airey and the Board will shortly have another enquiry on hand. Between disappointed teachers and committees an inspector’s position is becoming unbearable. We would not like to see enquiry burked but some check should be placed upon frivolous charges such as those recently made by Mr O’Donoghue. The Auckland office of the Kauri Timber Company is in receipt of the following cablegram with, reference to the annual meeting of the Company, which took place on 2nd inst, in Melbourne, —-A Annual meeting held ; in every way most satisfactory. Report adopted unanimously ; Board thanked for services. Directors reduced to seven ; Sargood re-elected. Good attendance,” The ordinary meeting of the Hobson County Council will be held next " day. Tit ere so - " , ,edues_ .*■ “ ~ no business of special

interest, except perhaps the report of the Inspector of Slaughter houses. A special .meeting ot the Council will be held on the Same day to confirm the order in reference to the Tatarariki Drainage district. The Attorney General declines to express an opinion as to the legality or otherwise of the Council’s method of keeping the Ridings’ balances accounts. The following appears in the Auckland Star, —‘21 have much pleasure in accepting Mr D, Simpson’s challenge to Dance for a Trophy, but as I had to go to Auck land to win the Championships he can come to Dargavilie to wrest it from me ; or, I am quite willing to meet him at the forthcoming Caledonian Sports at Wellington (being an utter stranger there), conditionally that each of us deposit £25 to £IOO before start of journey ; the winner of the most points to take the money.— Wm. A. Spiers, Dargavilie. Rev. R G. Baler had rather a rough experience on Sunday owing to the strong wind blowing. He preached at i'okatoka in the morning and was planned for Aratapu at three .o’clock Friends advised him that he would not be able to pull up from Tokatoka tut he determined to make the attempt, and after two hours of hard work he managed to reach this side of the river at a spot below the Tatarariki mill. He was unable to pull further so made fast his boat and walked up the river bank till he got to the mill. Thence he made his way to Aratapu which placebo reached just in time to deliver his sermon and conclude the service. We were recently favoured by Mr R„ Hobbs, draper of Queen Street, Auckland, with a look over his establishment, Mr Hobbs’ premises stand on his own property, and as the building was only re cently erected by him on the most approved plans, everything is as conveniently 7 arranged as they well can be, The retail shop has a frontage to Upper Queen Street and is well stocked. On the second floor is a commodious and well lighted Show room. The piernises run through to Wake field Street on which abuts the department devoted to the taking in of goods aud despatch of country orders, many of which find their way into Mr Hobbs’ hands. Country orders are packed iu cases specially made. Midway between the two frontages is a luncheon room with fire place and kettle for the convenience of customers and others, Mr Hobbs’ trade advertisement will appear shortly and will be well worthy of perusal. Mr McDongal of Tatarariki advertises strawberries and cream for sale at his garden. We have seen Mr McDougal’s strawberry garden and tasted his fruit and cream, and can confidently promise all who respond to. . his call a hearty welcome and a liberal measure cf good ripe fruit and sweet cream. Mr McDongal has a large patch laid out with plants which . have been well tended and are showing fine fruit. The fruit is well protected from the saqr) ! a y ers G f grass and the 4 cregtn is from the owner’s own dairy. To reach the garden from these parts visitors must go down the Tatarariki road to the cutting at the end of the formation, and after rising the hill at Mr Perry’s keep to tiro telegraph wire that takes to the right till they come to a road recently cut. Then.go to the end of this and Mr Me Dougal’s house can bo seen iu the hollow to the right. Good road all the way with strawberries and cream at tl-.e end. The setters of Tatarariki are making praiseworthy efforts to provide themselves with a school for thei; children. The Board of Education have consented to provide a teacher if the settlers will find a suitable building. A site has been secured and the building is now all that is r. quired The settlers are not burdened with capital but have all to struggle for existence, so that the procuring of a building is not such an easy matter as it might otherwise have been „ A school however they are determined to possess and a subscription list has been sent round. Cash donations and promises of free labour have been freely given by the few settlers around but more is required, A Concert has been fixed for Friday next in Mr Moloughney’s Hall to raise funds for the purpose, An interesting programme of considerable merit lias been prepared and the tickets fixed at two shillings each, A.s the obiect is a most woivhy one those who h»"' j.y ie me ans can--'eLte, ‘ G’.an render their assistance. uU e distance is too great we shall be glad Ito forward any donations to Mr F. Hay [ who is interesting himself in the matter.