NGARUAWAHIA.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1274, 28 August 1880, Page 3

NGARUAWAHIA.

For some time the inhabitants of this place have been surprised, and not a little amused at the Herald's reports under the head of "Ngaruawahia." In your issue of the 24th instant, the Huntley correspondent of the "W.T." very justly comments upon the nature of the news supplied by a correspondent of the Herald in his items re Huntley. It is well known that the effusions complained of di«l not emanate from anyone at Ngagiawahia. The reports of the Herald's owMcoVfespondent are alwa3's recognisable by thek truth, brevity, and terseness. I consider it un journalistic for the Herald to have two correspondents in one small place ; better one of them should reside, say at Hamilton, where reliable information as to what people at a neighboring settlement had for supper the night previous can be had. Your Huntley correspondent allows his just wrath to get the better of his pen, for the penny-a-liner alluded to does not reside in or near this place, nor is it at all probable that he ever prospected anything so high as the ranges opposite. At all events iris specimens lack the lustre of the genuine metal. Talking of journals, I chanced to get into conversation the other day with a Road Board politician. I was rather surprised at the turn his ideas had taken re local journalism, until, in the course of conversation, it turned out that he had lately turned mto — while putting up for the night — an editor's sacred bed. Having heard his story, I could not help thinking that in years to come some of that man's progeny would have the great event handed down to them. I would advise my Road Board acquaintance for the future to carry a skeleton key, otherwise he will find himself out in the cold. I was shown to-day a specimen of the writing of some of the children who attend the Ngaruawahia school. The children .are very young, varying from seven to eleven years of age. I have never seen anything better in its way. The writing shows great character, and is devoid of all flourish or vulgarity. "When I think of that writing I sigh, and regret there were no Rooks where I was raised. We all know they are useful birds ; but, alas ! my admiration was bestowed upon Peacocks, the only birds we could boast of, and my time was more given to admiring the plumage and grand strut of that bird than to learning how to write. I believe the Board of Education now muster on their staff a Peacock and a Rook. The sanitary notions and ideas in general of the latter bird are not at all appreciated by the Peacock (?). The inhabitants of this district would be much obliged by your notifying in the Times the day on which the R.M. holds Court here, so that they could get legal and other documents that require the signature of a J.P. executed. — [Own Correspondent. ]