TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1999, 30 April 1885, Page 3

TE AWAMUTU.

Bui.niN'r. will be bn-k imw for a time, re placing the building*, which wcie destroyed by the late die Mr Luwh is having a place erected to be iiicd temporal ily until fiis new hotel is built, when it will be let for shops. For the new hotel— which 1- to bo on the same pl.\n an the Star Hotel, Kihikihi—the following tendeis weie leeeivcd —Miller (IV Aroha), £10!»7 ; Maundeisand Co. (Kihikihi), £10!>8; Potteiton (Cambridge), £WM; Hogan, i'llOO ; £1230; Henderson (Ngaruawahia), fil.")U2. Messrs Manndei Hand Co. 'a tcndei was accepted. For two shop* on Mr J. K. Roches propei ty, in place of two of those destroyed by tin- hre, the following tenders were receded :— Potterton. i.'3!>7 l~>-> ; Maunders and Co., £410; Hogan, £41<J. Mr Potteiton'i tender was accepted. In one of his ai tides, your correspondent, Billy, very appropriately termed our roads "furze embroidered." This term applies more particularly to the road to the ■-tation. The footpath is so overgrown with fur7e on each side that for the greater poition of the way it is quite iinpo«Hible for two people to walk abrear-t, and unless it is cleared, in three months the footpath will be quite impassably for one person. The border of gor-,e on each --ide of the patti (foi theic is a luxuriant growth on the read side as well as next the fence) may, from an resthetic point of mow, look too utterly lovely when in bloom, but from a practical standixnnt they are a nuisanco, and an eyesore to the place. StLingers walking up from the station mi^t be very unfa\ourably mipressed by tlie spectacle. I am sorry t« see that all amusements that «a\ our of the atmospheres of the stage avoid To Awanintu as they would the evil one, though the piously inclined people will have ll tliuy are too well acquainted with his Batanic majesty, and should therefore be eschewed. Even the Japanese aciobatic troupe — a harmless exhibition of extraordinary gymnastic skill — would not come here to pot form. Other companies who have ventuied here have learned by sad experience that we look upon the^e things as machinations of the evil one, and a trap to catch soul-, and what is also of great consequence—though peihaps not quite so much as the other— stiay half crown 1 -. Even Professor Rice says nothing m his programme about coining heie. He should take very well now with the orthodox, as he exposes the spiutualistic swindles, but even that would not get him a house, I fear, unless he came undei the auspices of Borne one of the \anous denominations. We hay c had somo frauds here that deserved the poor houses they got, but unfortunately we cannot di-triminate between thegoodand the bad when it comes to paying for admission. However, to make up for tins we have a little excitement of .\ very mild soit occasionally in the i-hape of a tea meeting, or a scratch concert, with a learned address or two throw n in to make up for uproarious nierrirnent created by some of the fcongs, *ud Htidue-K caused by others, and we go home and tell each other how much better and pleas.i nter the evening was than if we had been listening to the w icked music of a "profane opeir. I thought at one time we were to have the pleasure of hearing a series of the Key. Mr Devvsbury's enter taming lectures, but I am sorry to say we were disappointed, for he only came here twice. That was a pleasure that made me widh for more. Everyone would be pleased to heir him agnn, and I hope our Wesleyan friends will induce hnv to visit us once more. — (Own Correspond nt.)