AOTEA.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 553, 4 December 1875, Page 2

AOTEA.

The weather has at last made a change for the better, and u^neu'tuial work which hm been somewhat retarded by the late ruins will quickly no ah ' Ad. Oa the whole the crops look better tht*n*mwht have been expected. Sheep »hearing is urer, «nd the retam a fair one. There will bo a considerable increase to our cv tivated area after the present eeisou, as the road* ara being imu*b improved, an I the bridging of some portions of them will greatly facilitate the carriage of pro luce. The natives are fa*t throwing-off that foeling of isolation whiiih has for some time past charaaterieed thsm, and ar» becom-ng something more like reasonable bein^a. The late sickness which hus prevailed amongst them has had « good d.-al to do with this, aa it has shown them their depenHance upon European help. One I tribe a^ona has got- a pretty good shaking thw winter, and lost no leas thm some twentysPTen of its members, some of thum relnte 1 tothe£in«, Tawhio. Want of food, and their miserablj 3}Uiiid and uncl anl.v domestic habit-* hay© had much to dj with causing this In s which is sad to contemplate, they ha*e plenty of food in prospect now, liowbtit, for tboir crops »re look* u q well, and they are getting good prices for the r cattle. At any rate there will be great fens^n^ to welcome* Sir GreOrge Grey whose visit is expected to result in great things for them They hare not lately gob «o much from .Sir Dunald, or Makerana, as they call him, and they hel eve that if Sir tiuor^f Grey got the yowec he would be more coioplia> t, and snm© extent of the lands they have- Joat would be returned to them. Can you not do our d : strict a good turn by aivocatmg the expenditure by the Education B uird of a little money on school accommodation in this district. We have an excellent and popular raa-«er,- but »-schi>olhou-*t» il!->*ui>plied.- and nally inadequate to the requirements of the district. No very special interest is being tak«n in politiis here, but 'Mr McMinn is certainly the f ivoorit-e, -a*d ''♦ b* w >ll only pronii^e to get the Rmltm road made, be may voe for abolition or against it, as Ue likes best, for what your correspondent, cares - (FHOM A. OOBHEBPI>WU«JT.)