PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4037, 13 February 1892, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(From Oui' Own Correspondent). Mr G. H. Kemper, of the North Village Settlement, has handed tno ni specimen of exhausted antricito which has been found in the fuco of a cliff in the ■Tirauinca. The specimen was found by it village settler named Bagley while working road making, and banded byhimto MtKemper, who isquite a repository of geological lore and'scicace. Mr Iftmper" tested its burning capacity hut found it had lost its carbon, probably through long exposure to atmospherio influences, Mr Kemper is confident that coal is" to be found in the locality. I have since seen Mr Bagley. and he tells me that some further specimens htve; since been found by him which oh fjft ; beiug applied to burnt freely and oxhaled large currents of gas,'

The venture of the Acclimatisation Society in placing trout and salmon ova in the country rivers is bearing fruit. A few evenings since as I was passing a bole in the Mangaramararaa stieam I noticed numbers of trout of two ditfurent species disporting them* selves in the warmth of the evening. There should shortly be fish for all here, The antics of a descendant of the Vikings have been calling considerable attention upon the individual himself the last few days. He hired the Publio Hall tor the avowed puts pose of giving a leoture on some mystic and subtle question, but as the hire money was not forthcoming the caretaker naturally declined to " light up" until the next evening, when it was stated the rent would be paid. The same ceremony ensued the second evening. In despair at last the would-be impassioned speaker mounted an improvised rostrum (a beer Keg) in front of the Publio Hall and addressed a few remarks bearing principally upon the speaker's name and place of residence to the mob who were thirsting for knowledge or more likely a sensation. The man is evidently going mad and should be charged withlunaoy before he becomes worse.