RAGLAN.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 621, 13 May 1876, Page 3

RAGLAN.

May 10,187 G. In my last I drew attention to the neod there was of making our natural wharf here easily accessible to large boats, and such a steamer as the Go ahead, now trading regularly to this port, but I regret these rocks still remains an obstruction to the wharf passage. They are of a soft character , but so, indeed, are some of our local authorities, or they would have been cleared away before this. Both rocks and local authorities need blowing up. The steamer is a great convenience to the district, and every facility for loading and unloading should he afforded. The taking up of land under the Homestead Act has given a temporary spurt to this district ; but, though much land has been so token up and ocenpiod, there is still equally good land open for selection, though not, perhaps, so easy of access as the first blocks taken up. There will be a considerable amount of new land broken up in the district, and a considerable breadth , sown down in grass this autnmu aacl j spring. The lime burning I alladed to liaa not been commenced, though ordors had been received both from the W.S.N. -Company, ' for bhipmentinto Waikuto, and fioni a firm at New Plymouth- The works, howo\er, will be shortly staiied, and this will bring some little money and busmens into the pljice. The nativeßat Kawhaa and Mangatatohe say tliat Tawhiao does not care to meet the Governor, but tlrat tlio natives generally are anxious to have the meeting talco pl.Kc. Tawhiao c\iilently evpects to be called to book for harboring Wynynrd and other murderers, and has fortified him self 80 my informant told me, with the | statement that as there wore cities of refuge amongst the Israelites so Te Kuiti is a city of refuge in New Zealand, and that in affording refuge to escaped criminals he is only carrying out the Levitical law as revealed in the Old Testament — Onyn Corkesposdent.