THE AWAMUTU NEWS. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1435, 13 September 1881, Page 2

TH E AW AMUTU NEWS. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

* /¥* Superintendent Thomson. '' .§E£ E J^ T MP KNT Thomson left here on Saturday morning for Auckland by special train, the fractured bone of his leg having been set by Dr Blunden of tins place, and every provision made for, his easy tiavelling. ,

- -^ , „, i "~-The-Weath9r. ••-■*•*-» -""•• - We are xiudergoiug a period of > moat satisfactory, and.m«a farimiig sen^, beneficial muibture, the raia for the last twenty-four hours hiving been incessant." The Te -Awainutuans g,t such .^mes retire within their shells and indulge m suspended animation to a large extent, and locomotion becomes" a penance frightful even to think upon, $he depth of mind everywhere being equal to the depth of sin in someplace^ T

i 0 TheßaU.. . , On Friday evening the rinkers gave their s .return ball ,tq the f Alexandran members of the fraternity. It was very nicely arranged and' largely attended by visitors from the surrounding districts. Several of them ( appealed in" fancycostume, and had a r longer time been given more would have done so. One gentleman ;of,-. a- facetious temperament performed the part of a ( cjown very neatly, hi.s great joke'lseitig' to' tumble clown suddenly in, front of couples on rollers, which causing their' to tumble over him, raised roars ; another young man' was a jester, with a bladder toi hit, people on the head with, and as that was his only jest he did very, well with, it A pretty young lady in a charming Norman peasant dress, made a sensation in, the buzzums,of all beholders I heard thrit my dear old friend Mrs Sairy**Gamp was expected, but though I looked for her and had •' the bottle on the iuanklepeege''for'her to put her lips to it when she was so dispoged," I did not see, either, her or the lady ' ' which' er name is Arris. "

The VoiiPopuli •' sxpresses-great satisfaction-withrthe prospects of advantage to the>~whole district by the scheme of a raiiway'from Morrinsville <jo Rotorua, uot only by the opening up of more land, the increase of §ettlers and promotion of work, but of opening an easy line for tourists through the Waikato lo< the wonders and beauties of the ldke lmd, and the. establishment of a" sanatorium of world wide renown there. Should <a great town beset up dt^hineuautu, in the course of a few years the effects of it would be felt on the demand for the supplies and' the inore'ase'of population even here. Such 'au anticipation, and that of the oyeniiig of Kawhia harbour, are not mere castles in the air, and as the latter would still further open up this line ot country^ f and cause it to be ,one of thp principal highways of traffic to the best harbour on the coast, it is a subject of speculation amongst the quiet gossips of Te Awamutu. '• Pigs might fly, " is a very worn out old sneer now-a-days, because pigs will fly in another year or two, and cucumbers can be grown already by bottled sunbeams, and bottled power from the falls of Niagra or Mount Ohimborazo, will b6 used to propel trains in Now York or England before the present generation die out, so Te Awatnutu,' Alexandra, and Kihikihi may well look forward to so very likely a thing as an advance in prosperity through ' Ohinenmf.u and Kawhia, f -