HARAPIPI. April 21, 1876.
The colonial " larrikins " seem -o thrive in the com i fry as well as in town, buu as ■we h.ive not auy bys about V're tin undermentioned iiiipcbievous pranks i luati .have beep peifoiuicd by grown up ones. Un Sunday last, late at jaigbt a heitler here was woke up by hearing someone on tlie .roof of his house, aye y low one, aud 01. asking who was ther" lie heard someoae reply in unintelligible Maori. He opened his door and slipped oat, jusu as he was, and obtained n rifle ; on bis return his visitors were gone, and in the morning he found hi« chimney stuffed up >vith a bundle of fern. The contractor working 1 for the road board had the pins taLen out and one of Ibe wheels taken off hh drays, and a little further on a settler's gate wasthrown oft the hinges. The soone 1 ' the perpetrators of the above join the Good Templars the better. The weather for the past month nab been very favourable to all sorts of out door wor.k, and all the craps in this parfc are in. The Eev. Mr. Brady has been risiting through the district.— [Owa CofiP.ESPOXDENT.]
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 612, 22 April 1876, Page 3
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203HARAPIPI. April 21, 1876. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 612, 22 April 1876, Page 3
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