TE AWAMUTU NEWS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1431, 3 September 1881, Page 2

TE AWAMUTU NEWS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Local Gossip. As a long course of arduous training is indispensable to the proper focussing of a keyhole for the minute study of the private life of individuals in a small town, it is not easy to arrive at such perfection in the art as that attained hy some eminent professors in Auckland, or by the late lamented Mr Pry, hut in the course of conversation -with passers-by the great secret has, been imparted to me in the strictest confidence, which shall' never be violated in any other but a public sense, that we are abouttto get up a Fancy ball in these parts. If it is not confined only to fancy, and takea the < shape of reality in any way, it will be a really grand and lofty idea. Dressing up is always pleasing, both to youug and old. R.M. Court. Mr North croft, R.M., arrived by train yesterday afternoon,, but there were no cases for hearing in, IV Awamutu. The examination of the man Polilen for assaulting Mr McMinn with a fern-hook. ; wiU take placej to-day in Alexandra. The case excites considerable interest. Agricultural. The decision with regard to the cultivation of beet root and the manufacture of sugar in the Waikato is waited for, and there is eyery, desired to further the J scheme and promote the growth of a new and desirable industry. The soil here is particularly well adapted to the growth of such crops, and as the cultivation of land must now Be necessarily largely increased, the establishment of a profitable consumption o.f the produce would | be of great advantage to the locality, besides phe { benefit to the, colony. This will be' a great cheese-producing dis|ijct in4imes n jtpi. r cpme^the richnesaj of the New Zealand. ''Tfiave seen some cheese from the farm of Captain Brockett, of ' 'Bsbgia'otiia^tfliafr'ia nuite "eqtial m/delica'cy 'of'flavb'r "tfe? %ti fitfe'stf' ever 'produced 'in 'the Old 1 ,ej>uniry, aiid r wo»ld ii {iff6i t a' a <Wat t6"> 'London 'epicure.'-^Septemb'er '2iJdK" )(tl - "'" ''■«■ » . •■< > "« t T 1 H 11,(1- If I I fmimmm i ifll nil Hi I I II I 1 1*— 1) -U'i Tenders are mvited by Mcl^uihon Bcpther? , jßangirfrL for ploughing 7O 1 Wbres of