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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 228, 15 December 1893, Page 7

The Chief Surveyor, Auckland district is calling 1 fcr separate tenders returnable tip till noon of Saturday, December 30th, for three sections of work on the Mareratu road. Messrs J. Brown and Co. blacksmiths and engineers of Aratapu, are erecting an addition to their workshop so that they shall have more room to carry on their increasing business, Mr A. Morton, of Scarrott’s station, is disposing of his flock of sheep, and by acl vertisement in our business columns he informs settlers and others of the good opportunity now afforded them of increasing their.flocks. The Aratapu Public school annual treat is to be held on Thursday nest in Mr Webb’s paddock.

The residence being erected on the Kopuru Hill to the order of Mr Hammond is fast approaching completion, and occupies quite a prominent position in the landscape. Some fifteen or twenty Austrians arrived by the steamer last evening and made their way to the Maori’ground or Aoroa gum fields. The party included several boys. The Aratapu mill has been working one hour per day overtime this week. The Tatarariki mill is expected to start work next week and we hold over our report on the new structure till work is resumed. Mr T. Elliott arrived at Tatarariki on Thursday and will be a source oE immense strength to the Cricket team of that place. The barque Bells left Aratapu on Tuesday, and the brigantine Hand a Isle left this morning for the Heads, both with full cargoes loaded at the Aratapu mills. The schooner Aratapu is now loading at the same piace. The Torea is discharging flour etc., at Mr Black’s wharf, she is to load at Mitchelson’s mill. The Crest of the Wave and the schooner Welcome are now loading there. The old year is fast running out and new almanacs will soon be required. We have already been favoured with one by Mr H, Se&rle, boot and shoemaker of Aratapu ; tire almanac is a very neat and compact one, combining 1 the useful with the ornamental. Mr Walton Chadwick, storekeeper of Aratapu, has also supplied us with his attractive pictured calendar.

ho ordinary meeting of the Aratapu

Banci of Hope was held on Tuesday evening when Mr T, Webb occupied the chair. The ladies were again successful in securing a really good programme consisting of songs, duets, dialogue, recitations, pianoforte solos and an exhibition of Indian Club exercises by Air Stubbs. This last was rather a novel item for the Band of Hope but it was one that was highly appreciated ; all the movements were made 'with the greatest precision and 'gracefulness to the accompaniment of music. The public Hall was packed in every seat by an appreciative audience.. Two persons signed the pledged at the close of the meeting. Trie ladies of the Aratapu Banci of Hope Committee have been feeling the public pocket during the week, anc! have met with a willing response. Their object is to pro ■ vide a Christmas Tree for the children on Boxing night at the close of the usual Band of Hope meeting. The Committee of that Society voted thirty shillings to supplement the amount collected and it js hoped that sufficient will be raised to provide every child with soma present from Santa Claus. No distinction will be made between children, ancl the Committee desire us to make it clear that ail the children about the place are expected and invited to be present at the Christmas Tree on Boxing night. Mr McDoug Jl of Tatarariki has very kindly sent ns a large can of fine strawberries, which we have very much enjoyed. Those who have paid this gentleman’s garden a visit speak very highly of, the fruit there as also of the liberal supply of strawberries and cream given for their money. After passing up the cutting by the vinery look out for the newly made road, running towards the coast, abutting on which is the building used as the Tata—rariki school. On reaching this look ahead, well to the right, and you may see Air Me Dougall’s house near which are the straw berries. Mr'Lvon’s strawberry bed is some two miles or so nearer the coast on the same road The Te Aroha News says,—-A wager was' made on election day, between two VVaihi men who differed in political colour, as to the knowledge of politics among the crowd. Tiie bet was, that there were twenty men who didn’t known who was Premier of this enlightened colony. The free and independent, barracking gaily, were quietly interrogated, and the man who laid the wager had a * dead cop,’ and took the coin, for few could answer correctly, Some thought it was Ballauce, and others Jackson Palmer, while Cadman and Bill Kelly were in the competition. There were two for Gladstone and one for Sir ’Etiry Parkes, while another dug up the late Atkinson, They all voted, anyway.” Air James Barbour has successfully launched his two pearling ketches and has made a good start with the steamer for Air John Harrison and the schooner for Mr Mitchelson. The yard presents a lively appearanct there being ten or a dozen men employed there, and the quautity of timbers lying around show plainly that operations on a large scale are m contemplation.. The Hon. E. Mitchelson paid a visit to the yards during this week to see how things were progressing. This gentleman deserves the thanks of the whole community for placing iris order in oar iocal ship-building yard and we congratulate Air Barbour on the confidence reposed in him, — a confidence which, has been well earned by the reputa tioti of the vessels already tuned out by him. Our follow citizen, Mr John Harrison, is also to be commended for his en terprise in having sueh a fine steamer locally built, as the one that has no?/ been started upon, and we trust his venture will be eminently successful.