TATARARIKI

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 192, 7 April 1893, Page 2

TATARARIKI

(From our own Correspondent). The people of Tikinui are about following our example and are taking steps towards getting a school in their district. They deserve our most sincere sympathy for they little know the difficulties to be surmounted before their wishes can be gratified. Our school bnilding is about f'mished, and it is to be hoped the school will be in working order very shortly. This will be a great help to the district; indeed the want of a church and school has done more to keep the place stagnant than all other causes put together. The clergy of the various churches have given us a severe lotting alone : even the Salvation Array don’t think we are worth troubling about. Perhaps they are right; we are not rich, and if we have souls at all no doubt they will be of an inferior order. But it strikes me very forcibly if llie reverend gentlemen belonging to the various Christian denominations would but exercise a twentieth part of the zeal in saving souls that they’ do in gatheiingup the dollars, Tatarariki and other conn try districts would not be long in want of spiritual assistance. That we require something of the kind must be evident to your readers. The season for shooting native game commenced in most places on the first instant, and apparently here ou the 31st March. From about noon on that dale up to the present the boom of the shot-gun has been heard evefy few minutes, both night and day, I accidentally’saw the contents of a sportsman’s (?) bag ou Sunday evening last’ It contained four kingfishers, a fantail, a young rooster, two tame ducks, a pig about three weeks old, a coil of l’ope, a cow-bell, and a rat-trap. And he said to a friend that he shot them all in less than a couple of hours Pheasants are not at all numerous ; I have not seen more than two or three during the past six months. I notice iu the Bedl of the 30th ult a letter from a person signing himself “ Gnmdigger ” in which he sueeringly tries to have a quiet rub at my’self. As in all probability other matters alluded to in that letter will form the subject of a legal action I refrain from comment for the present, reserving the right however to do so iu the near future.