NGARUAWAHIA. February 15th.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 596, 16 March 1876, Page 3

NGARUAWAHIA. February 15th.

We hire been ia » more thin ordinary state •f excitement in this settlement since Monday. Yesterday morning Mtr Ruge, the barber, opened for the nonce, and has 10 altered the apWaraoce of lome of our mere hirsute resident!, that oases of mistaken identity have already occurred, and report says that one individual going home at dusk, close-cropped and clean ■bared, and with » wee drop in his eye. had the door locked upon him by hit own wife, and was kept parleying fttllj twenty minutes before ha was let i». Tb» Governor also made hit appearance, and we had a little bunting oat bnt no deputation as we were told it w»s not desired, his Excellency travelling on thlu occasion like the Caliph in Mufti, *nd not wishing to be known or bored. The petition for the opening the lands about the township has gone to Auckland for signatures of Newcastle property'- holders. If we could get thtse land* put up at their real value, from £3 to £5 per acre, instead of £10 as now, we should toon get a 'b«ok coutft-y and some permanent •ource of support to the township. I am gl*d to say tnat the accident which occurred last" week to Mr Giffney hae not been followed by any mora serious results than a ■light confinement to the Home for a d»y or ' two. The beam that' fall on him was a heavy ' one, and he wa« fortfnnate in receiving nothing ' more than a slight cut on the head.— Fbom a ' ©OR*ttPC»-D»NT.