TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1392, 4 June 1881, Page 3

TE AROHA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Tin: Warden's Comfc was opened on Wednesday, and with the nrriv.tl of a iminbcr of vi-itor^ both by the ooacli and the Tatiki j resterdciy, contributed to lend to onr iat her piirnitivo settlement quite a sparkling appearance. The table (Vltolt, at the principal hotel reminded the host of the dax/ling days of the rush and he cast oft his influenza and hopped and skipped like the gentleman who cast away crutches and did a•' hivelaud" fling to" show his gratitude to Piofessor Holloway or some other mir.K ulous curer of old sores. The battei y broke out in a fresh place under the iuspiiing influence of the decidedly moist weather that wo have had since Wednesday night, and yebteiday was punching a-waj' with most ferociouseneigy though tliero are no results or particulars to rcpoit as yet.

The Fire at Mr Smith's Farm. On Tuesday night the lcsidence of Mr S. B. Smith of Waitoa, was debtioyed by flip, ft is said that the owner had just completely furnished it for the leception of his biide to whom he was unued the day befoie at Hamilton, and that though the house is fully insured, the furniture is not. It .seems that theie was nobody in the house, but a man and woman employed to take eaie of it' and the caiiae of the fire ia not known. Messrs. Maclean and Gavin's tender for the formation of a road from the Waitoki to the main Thames io;«l has been accepted, and one more work in the opening up of the district will proceed at once. Much remains to be done round nearer to this place, and until it is completed, there will be a hindrance to the progress of the district, roads,' roads,' roads,' should be the warcry of all the sottieis here for they aie more wanted than any other necessity for advance. Let it be known unto all whom it may concern that there is a dearth of butter and eggs here that is inexpressibly trying and that though the bettlers aronnd do make scores of pounds of butter to send away somewhere and could make hundredweights more, we are butteries and eggless and completely baconless. Farmer.*, settlers, and deferred payment men should attend to this and remember the giand old scotch proverb, "every little makes a muckle." They want coppers and Te Aroha wants butter and eggs and bacon. Id the Magistrate's Court heveral Civil Cases were decided. Theie weie two cases in the Warden's Court, and a few notice 3 of pegging out claims. —(June 3.)