AFFAIRS AT ROTORUA AND MR BALLANCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1965, 10 February 1885, Page 2

AFFAIRS AT ROTORUA AND MR BALLANCE.

THK KOIOULV ItAII.WAT. Whii.k at Ohaupo on Friday Mr Ballance w.ih interviewed 1»y Mr S. Sto'lo, .11 one of Uotoiua leaseholders respecting several matter* of intercut .it that place. Mr Ballance, refeiring to the rein irks of Mr Steelo, who had expressed Imu-ulf hs veiy well pleased with his bargain, said that he (Mr Steele) was the tir->t leaseholder ho hid met who was s-atished. He wan not .it all i-ur|>ri-if(l .it the l.md about Rotoru.i not going olf on such .1 --hort lease as seven year-*. Ho intended visiting Kotoiua it .111 e.irly date, when ho would see if ho could not make better and more favourable condition*. The whole thing seemed to be in a mess, ,md it requiiod soiifono on tho ground to f><» cirofully into tin* matter. He had not the sliffhto-t doubt but tli it it would he :k very import.int township 111 a very short time. Ito-.pectinj; I tho railway, ho could tfive Home asauninco I th.it tho line would be completed in * veiy shot t time. Mr Steele having suggested certain altoi.itions in the term-> of leii'-e, Mr 15.ill.iuce replied that they could not oxpoct that the <Jo\ ernmeut would break their contracts. It was w>ry woll for tho leaseholders to come to tin 1 Goiernmont whentheir holding did not turn out as they e\ppcted, and a^k to haw the contract broken, but what would the le.iheholder--h.iy supposing the (}ovcrnniont, finding th.it tli^y had made a kid bargain, asked to have tin; terms altered 'I Such a thing could not bo thought of. Mr Steele complained that the sanitary condition-i were not what they ought to bo. Mi -Hillam.e naid he undm stood this was thu cam), The medical officer appointed bv the (Jowrnnu'iit ought to look after all these matters ; in fact it was his duty, and he would tee that this v as attended to. Mr Steelo also brought fOlf 01 ward the matter of tho exorbitant charges made by natiw.s for .seeing toitain pl.ices in the Lake district. In many instances these chaiges were himply an e\toition, mul made .1 visit to the Lakes a somewhat expensive luxury. At Whak ae ware wa, people h.ul to pay no less than &> to cross a bit of a clock. Mr Hallanco said that mattei had already bopn brought under his notiue. The syhtem (if blackmailing at Kot«iua was indeed veiy annoying and injuiious to the pioipmity of thedistiict. He would tiy and put an end to it. He had given in»tuiLtions that a lni'dpo slimihl be erootod over tho cieok at Whak.uewarewa at a cost not to exceed Mr Lake Maid, respeoting the gray eyard at Kotoiua, it was in a disgraceful condi tion. At cm tain tunes thoie wasaixtut 2ft. of water in it. Mr Ballance promised that the whole affair xhould receive his attention during his coining visit to the Kotorua conntiy.

j Tuk director of a Paris prison the other , day apprised ;i prisoner that he had inhenteil u fortune of -2,000,000 fiancs ami ;i magnificent estats in Switzerland. The i authorities of the locality where it is 1 situated forwarded with the title deeds to the propei ty a photograph of the mansion. The joy of the piisoner at the intelligence com eyed was so great that he registered a \ou in the pienenue of the governor of the puol to li\ean houeat life henceforward. Before, however, ho can enjoy the windfall he has tliruo years of u prison regime to undergo. 1 hero are sever il alterations and .iJJitions to Mr J. h. Hucklnnd's adTcrtiicments. .Mr Koflfev, Ngaruawahia, requests that all accounts Hue him be settled. Kurekn'fc consultation on the Dunedin Cup is adverttstd in another column Messrs Iront, Uros , Canterbury Steam Coffee Mills, insert a business notice in another part of this issue. Goon I on H 4iii i s." — We arc pleased to say that our bab) w.is permanently « urcd of a serious protr icted inedularitj oi the bowels b\ the use ol Hop Hitters b> its mother, whuh at the same time rcitorcj her to perfect health and strenjrth." Tub PAfKMs. See.