HARAPEPE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1351, 26 February 1881, Page 3

HARAPEPE.

The Pirongia land is to be sold at last, or some of it is adveiti&cd to be sold at the Waste Lands Otfice, Auckland, on the 16th of March rext. Theics i-s now a good opportunity for those who vr.wt to get a cheap farm, as some of the ,10 acre lots are very good laud, and some ot them are close to the ii\er Waip.i, and are to be sold in lots of from 30 to 200 acres. The Whatawhata bridge is almost completed, and the Te Rore blidge will be so m a few months, so that the district will now be opened to the outer world. *"" Roads in nearly all parts of the district are passable, and a steamer comes up the river once a week. The ixpset price of the laud is low, not 15s per acre. It will be a losing speculation for the Gov ernment, as a good deal of the land was bought by the Native Minister at 30s per acre. I was mis-informed, I find, about the ceremony of driving the first pile of the Te Rore bridge. There was no chain.pague over the event, the Koad Board not even doing the handsome with a keg of colonial. AH I can say is that I hope the new Board will maUe up at the completion what the old one has failed to do at the beginning, as it is never too late to mend. Rain is very much wanted in this district and all others I suppose ; the aeed is rapidly drying up. Turnip land wants ram, also, as is too dry to sow the seed at present. — (Correspondent, Feb. 24.)

Thb young Evangelists in Sydney have at last hit upon a new plan for spreading the Gospel teachings. The apostles now sally forth at dawn with goodwill to men in tbeir heart*, and a bucket of tar and a brush in their hands. Presently they rein up in front of a newly white-washed fence, and tar out, "The wages ov sin ia death — and seven days," after which they glide softly away. and speculate to themselves how pleased the owner of that fence will be when he thinks that by its aid ho may peihaps gain one poor erring soul. Some of these days, however, the fence propiietor will borrow a gun, and then there will be buck-shot and trouble about that part of the apostles' anatomy which, as Milton cays, " is farthest from the east when they gaje qu tfoe rising euo at early morn?'