HARAPEPE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1762, 20 October 1883, Page 2

HARAPEPE.

News of any public interest in this quiet district is very scarce, and unless it is the everlasting subject of the bad weather, I haidly know what to write about. That is the principle topic of interest to all the agiicultiual community just now, and it is certainly the roughest and most backward spring there has been for many years in this district. On Satmday evening last the top^ of the Pirongia lange of mountains weie again covered with snow ; in fact it is moie like winter than spring, and feed of cveiy description is very scaice. The minister of all denominations seem to ha\c quite foi gotten that there is such a place as Haiapepe, as it is now many months since we have had a religious serv ico of <uiy description ; in fact wp are woi-so oft now than we were years ago, befoie the Te Roie bridge was built, and the liver had to be cio-,sed with a good deal of tumble by the old ferry punt. Seveial natives have squatted down on some laud at the foot of the ranges over heie, and aie cultivating Mime of the land. They becm to be pietty well off, as they have several veiy good horses and two spung caits. Then light to occupy the land is, I believe, a doubtful question. A native settlement in close proximity to a lituope<in one is not pleasant, as thoy usually have a. pack of half-titan ed civ-> roaming about who do not increase the peace and quietness of flocks of .sheep ; in fact the natives in then ideas and ways do not agieu with outs of civilisation, uuikiiig thorn not at all deniable neighbour.— \ Coi respondent, October 17th].