TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1720, 14 July 1883, Page 2

TE AWAMUTU.

. • ,< Te Kooti passed through a fe\y daj's ago on his return from Ohiueiriuri. ' On His arrival in^Kihikihi he was greated by the r natives in the town with 1 songs of welcome, ; and, what was'more to his taste, unlimited! waipiro. It was a study to watch how ftniJeyesl twinkled 'when the Ib'otbles jof whisky were displayed on the groundih'^ows. "M4^ v.v-, . ■ ;,» r ■„ 7/ _ Oonsiderableimprovemeiits have lately beeii{fffade v iiiiUtHeSBtreets'vof this city ; ►contractors have been busy carting «ravei'., iov : the winterl 1 - "''Mr-Wright, seed merchanjb^ tis erecting a^veighb/idge V this \ will be £ ragreatMell,oftroitbleiin:>weighintf their. pootinaker, .■► lias-

jwhjajjpp^Sßs volumes for the ability and •'etpfyof that gentleman :— For Standard jVljKuß^befcca Lewi3, Mary Jane Cariey aiflt^ Apliie Maundera passed*^ (one Taiftfre.jMtandards II and IV 'one hun-, dre^per^ceiit, passed. Sixty six per cent.v, passed standard V., and seventy-Seven^ per cent^'passed standard I. Standard,, the weakest, especially in his-* tory. ' All acquainted with the syllabus requirements of this standard will know that it is only by perseverance in study that t a-qhild can pass -successfully standards 11. and 111. in succession. Many parerfts err in 1 the to present children for standard TI. before they are eight years of age. Let the chiid have time to form a good solid foundation to his studies to be able to do staudard I. work ere he or sho r be presented for standard 11. and s6joii. 'Those parents M r ho have not had an opportunity of.. ; reading the various reports on the standard examinations by Mr' O'Sullivan would do well to do so. The children attending th« schools of Kihikihi and Rangiaohia have also, I believe, passed their examination creditably, but I have, not been able as yet to learn full particulars. . - . Birds in this district have been very scarce this season, owing in a gre.it me mire to the vast numbers ot wild cats and hawks which infest the country. The Acclimatisation Society ought to limit the time for the sale of pheasants, as numbers of loafers, who are too lazy to work, make a living during the season by shooting, for the market. , Even haUfledged" chickens are not safe from these ■ merciless poachers, who slioot e\ ci ything that rises, and who pay no more for their licenses than those who slioot for pleasure. These gentry make a practice of shooting over tarms'Avhen they know the owners' are absent, for they know perfectly well that if the fanners were at home they would not get permission to slioot. One young man told me that one of the poaching fraternity, who has made Alexandra his head-quarters, litmally cleared his father's farm of birds, and went away without leaving a single bird with the man whose laud lie shot over, and I have no doubt this dfetiict is not singular in this respect. Very few licenses have been taken out heie this year, and fewer still will be taken out next year if the society will not take steps to prevent the wholesale destruction of birds by these poachers. — [Own Correspondent, July 13th.]