RAGLAN. (FROM A COREESPONDENT)

Waikato Times, Volume VI, Issue 325, 13 June 1874, Page 2

RAGLAN. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT)

The effects of the storm which raged on Sunday week last were plainly discernible in our little village, when on the following morning portions of old buildings and sundry fences were to be seen embracing mother earth. The tide on that night was unusually high, and some of the boats on the beach were damaged through it. The weather is still most unsettled ; the rain came down in torrents last night. It is a great relief to learn that the local trader Dawn is safe in the Manukau ; it is to be hoped the Agnes was equally fortunate and has long ere this put in an appearance. The account given by a correspondent, of the public meeting of householders held here on 23rd May last, for the election of a School Committee, in your columns of the 4th, might lead those of your readers not conversant with local events to infer that the Rev Mr Schnackenberg, whose name is mentioned last there, polled the least votes ; such, however, is not the case, he had 18, the highest number, and four members of the former illegal committee were reelected, thus proving that certain resolutions passed at a meeting called that of "Householders" held here a short time previous to that of the 23rd, an account of which was published in the Weekly News of May 16, censuring and casting imputations on Mr Schnackenberg, were not the views of a majority of the householders, but only of a few. At a meeting of the Committee held subsequent to above date, Mr Schnackenberg was unanimously elected chairman. Petera, the Ngatikikairo chief, who jumped overboard from the cutter Dawn, while in an insane state, expired on Sunday last. Deceased was a man of considerable rank. A cry is being held over his remains previous to their being laid in their last resting place. The dismal noise of which, if anything, is a little worse than that of the bagpipes.