TE AROHA.
In anticipation of the visit of the lion, the Premier, a public meeting was held on Monday evening at O'Halloran's hotel. Considering the short notice, there was a good attendance. Mr •Stafford was voted to the chair. — After desolutory conversation, Mr Robert Farrell proposed "that five gentlemen be nominated as "a deputation to interview the Premier on his arrival, as to the most necessary works to be undertaken by the Government for the immediate development of the field. Several persons were nominated. A ballot was taken, which resulted in the election of Messrs Moore, Quinlan, O'Halloran, Stafford, H. E. Whitakev and IP. Murray. These gentlmen were to meet the Premier on his arrival, and explain to him the requirements of the district ; and considering the great strides the district ha& already taken, without extraneous aid, I think we are entitled to some consideration at the hands of the authorities. The principal matters to be brought before the Premier are the want of a bridge over the river, telegraph extension, assistance towards making a road to the new gold-field to enable machinery to be placed on the ground, appointment of a J.P., and other minor matters. — (Correspondent.)
" Tommy," said a mother to a sevenyear old boy, " you must not interrupt me when I am talking to ladies. You must wait till we stop, and then you can talk." " But you never stop !" retorted the boy. A Ducal Mourner. — At present the Orleanist princes pass most of their time in celebrating obituary masses for their relatives. The Due d'Aiunale is the least political of the princes, and the memory of his wife, who died early, is .keenly remembered. Her auburn hair was so beautiful that it was called tresses-of-light ; her husband has them preserved in a glass case in his, bedroom. In his library the only chair he Bits in is tLat embroidered by her hands V he wears from his neck a locket of his wife in her ball toilette. The Due d'Aumale owes his great fortune to his wife's* estate in. Sicily,* known as the 'Zucco Vineyards, whosWalue ho,s been enhanced by stead^
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Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1504, 23 February 1882, Page 2
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355TE AROHA. Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1504, 23 February 1882, Page 2
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