PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3796, 28 April 1891, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(Our Own Correspondent,)

The proposed Hawera hotel is now assuming a definite form. The building is only one story but of considerable size for a roadside hotel. Mr Farley, of Pahiatua, is the contractor, and the expedition used in getting the building into its present stage of progress reflects considerable credit on his prompitude and business habits. The want of a halfway house between Pahiatua and Eketahuna has been

long felt and will now shortly be supplied. Rumors of still another public house on same road and shortly to be built are circulated.

Professor Chanoing has paid us a visit, and has charmed the hearts of the ladies with auguries of pleasant things which fortune had in store for them. I accidentally overheard a coterie of hysterical females comparing notes upon their wonderful experiances with he of the mystic art, I gathered that, judging from the correctness of his reading, by palmistry, incidents iD their past lives, they had every faith in his pleasant predictions for the future. Lot us hope their faith will never need to be shaken. The movement in favor of a Farmer's Co-operative Society seems to have died a natural death. The principal agitation in the matter may now be seen behind ths counter of a well-known soft goods store here. From the blaiidness of his smile wc can imagine that the past leaves gnly the shadow of a dream. But of course ha now represents the opposite side of the question. What irresistible charm is it which surrounds a Minister of the Crown ? People flock from far and near to

narrate their grievances, not so much for any chance of redress which this may bring them as from a sense of pleasure at having made the Government listen to his tale of woe. Such a splendid opportunity of airing one's eloquence is not to be missed, and I can assui e you the good people of Fabiatua and surroundings did not miss it when the Premier and Minister of Lands were hero a few days since. I nearly excepted Mr Hogg though, who, as the member for the district, accompanied them. Verily Mr Hogg's arm, though of seeming stoutness, must feel weary from the continual handshaking he was subject to, and they were not puny or ladylike hands that I refer to, but those of the ideal Knight of Labour who could not let the idol which they have raised up go through the place with such august comgany without " touching flesh" with it. The said idol's lot is evidently not all " beer and skitdefi," but I digress.