The Te Aroha Murder.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1352, 1 March 1881, Page 3

The Te Aroha Murder.

Grahamstown, Last Night. The Te Aroha correspondent of the Advertiser says:— "The district is once more assuming its wonted aspect of quietude, the Maoris having cooled down after the excitement caused by the late murder, and numbers of them are now seen m the township. They discuss the pros and cons very intelligently, and seem equally divided as to the guilt or innocence of the man accused. A large number of natives from the districts around intend to leave here to-morrow, to be present at the conclusion of the investigation now being held at the Grahamstown Police Court."

Wellington, Last Night. Wlntekw has been suspended, pending the Asylum inquiry. The Government find that the results of the extra sixpence on uon-payuig telegraph stations is so far profitable as to render it nece&sary, in the condition of the public finances, to retain the additional charge for the present. Nothing has yet been done about the now Minister.

An Esquimaux family in full costume is the latest adlition to the Berlin Zoological Gardens. If the Empress Eugene he responsible for the Franco -Prussian war (and some folks say she was the foil by which the Jesuits brought it about), she has a contra account in her favour in the matter of the Suez Canal. M. do Lessops is a cousin of the Empress, who, according to his statement., was the Isabella the Catholic of the Sue/ scheme. JBut for the Spaniwh ardour with which she sustained it, the Isthmus would still divide the Red from the Mediterrauean Sea. "Your head," she said (speaking, of course, in a figure) to Comte Walewski, "depends on the skill jou phow in helping my cousin to out iiia canal." M. do Lessepa quite pardons Lord Palmerston and Downing-street all the annoyance they caused him, and he laughs heartily when he relate" how " Pdin" believed that the corps of navvies recruited in France for the Suez works weie disgui'-ed Zouaves, cunningly sent by Louis Napoleon to get hold of the overland route. M. de Lesseps takes a kindly view of the woild. Humanity in the lump he thinks excellent. Opiate (saysthe MurlborougJi Time*) there has been quite a revival of the flax industry in the district, where some years ago it had attained considerable dimensions but subsequently had almost died out. Amongst the mo^t recent efforts that have been made to put again in working order a mill for sometime disu-ed is that of Messrs Sewell and Donaldson, who have leaspd Mr Redwood's flaxmills at Spring Creek, Avhich is now in full operation and keeps some 20 hands in constant employment. The raw raaterial is carted from Tua Marina, and about five tons are daily pst through the machine, of which the greater part is new, and comprises all the latest improvements!. Attached to the establishment is a rope walk 240 yards long at which excellent samples of lopes of all sizes are being turned out. There appears to be nothing wasted on the establishment, and the tow left from the flax after ,it is hackle is all sent to the market. Nearly all the produce of thi* mill as well as of others in this dihtrict finds its way to Melbourne, where there appears to be a steady demand for New Zealand flax which, is being manufactured in Victoria into yarn, bagging, and a variety of other articles of commerce. Very good paper can be produced from this fibre, and provided that the market is not flooded with it all at once jbhere appears to be a most excellent prospect' for the flax producers in - this Colony.- The mill to which we have referred is kept working night and day and presents a busy scene at all hours, meal times alone e'xcepted. Few who pa?R within a few yards of it by train on the Picton and Blenheim line hiveh i ve probably any idea of what a busy hive of industry now exist* at tile jumition of Spring Cre p k and 'the rivr r. Everything appears to be 6<irried out in the moit perfect order, and the use of alcoholic liquor is , tabooed on the ground. The men appear to be prodded with comfortable quarters, > and to be working together very t harmoniously. The reopening of this mill e<?prn* likely to prove a boon to-tlie looa'ifcy in finding *nn outlet for labour wjjjolr ??o,uld. have to be -ought at a distance, and in increasing the circulation of n»o>,ev intho I'dwnship, and'it is'tobe hojied ' thaV&e enterpii~ing proprietors will be r well .recouped for ttieic outjay. lUnde.r,, proper systematic and economical management there seems no reasoVtb'don'b't 1 that the flax industry will ultimately beoirae one oft the* mosti^tfccet-sful/oe port local in^ries; 'in "the festering 1 afced* W onurayement of whjQb,:mt?ch ? !njiy be done to promote the welfare of the country, .ijttct especially di the real we&iog eUtsaw*