WHATAWHATA.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1026, 21 January 1879, Page 2

WHATAWHATA.

PUBLIC MEETING.

The meeting of settlers and residents in ■"• this district, re the Mail stoppage, took place, as advertised, on Saturday evening' last, the 18th hist. It is almost needless to say that it was well attended, the subject matter affecting, as it does, everyone in the district. Mr Foxall occupied the chair. It was resolved that the Chief Postmaster be memorialized, to re- j establish the Saturday mail, and that the > necessary steps, in drawing up the ', memorial, getting signatures, &c. ( bo taken by Mes>rs Salmon and Clarke. The meeting then stood adjourned for a fortnight, by which timo, no doubt, the result of the memorial will be known. It transpired that the immediate cause of the stoppage is, that tenders were called ' for a bi-weekly and a tri-weekly mail > service, and, there being no tender for the latter, the former was accepted. We i naturally ask why, after we have had, for \ over twelve months, three mails a week, i r tenders were called at all for a bi-weekly j5 mail. Are we, on the Waipa, to go back, j instead of forward, for nothing so surely indicates the progress of any district, as having a speedy and frequent mail communication. —Cork P.S.—Please find enclosed, a small piece ! of coal, taken out of a vein just struck, in cutting the Raglan road, about a mile from the river. It is cropping out at the surface, and it burns well.