RAGLAN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2020, 18 June 1885, Page 2

RAGLAN.

Aktkr a week of vciy unsettled weather wr •iro now h.iwng, miilc S.itmd.iy, ln\uitifui and nettled we.ithoi, with fi<^t in M>im« p.vrt". A l.ir«c e\toiit of bu-,h n beui^ cut down in the di-tuU. At Te M.it.i, upon tho piopoitj of Mi C.ihm, ()Oacre^aionoH b«ing cut down, .uid upon in.\ny other bush farms the ring of tho .i\e can be heard.

The steamer Hannah Mokau came in W night. A telpgi.un had been received fiom MrT. X Hill tli.it thr trout ho had promised wore on board under the chaigo of Mr Duncan, who i-< \Uitmg the district. At about a iLiii. the lights were soon outiide the h.irbom bai, and a boat va-> put off by Meiwr* Unlfoicl and lV.uco, and when otrthe Kopua Me-,Ms Mitchell and lVgler went oil to the steamer also on her, they having come thtwn t<i convey the trout to then destination, the Waniu creek, bt>luw tho 1 evidence of the founri settler. Tlio steamei pioceedcd to the uhatf, mid tho osn contuiuiiiK the h-h was landed, and after consultation it uas thought that to wnd any out to Mr Hill's place would be ratlu-r ii'.Uy, «eeinf? that so many were a!rcn<!y- <Wd. S,> -xlkor clniifr!»K tho water the cue-, woio placed in the boat and cohm'Jtcl to Mu hi'ad of the navigablo cieck, and camod tlionce about a nuloby Mosms Mitchell and Teglei, and liberated in tbi- Wanui below Mr Mit chell's house. Tin- night being d nk, and tho roads bad, it was n \\o\k of considerable difHculty. Tho w.itei w.i-> change<l nffccn but upon placing them in the cieek about 73 weie found to be dead, and jieih.ii>-. noarly JO alno. It is to be, hoped tlusc will thnve, foi tho, cieek they wero placed in i» \ory suitable for the ptiri>ose. firent credit is duo to Mi T. 11. Hill for his liberality in this niattei, and may ho live to enjoy many a day* tiout fishing in tho cicok* that inn through all parts of tho Raglan district. Considerable oscitement i« on re the Counts Act. Many ftio against it, whilst I belie vo the nnijotity are in its fiiToiir. May it be di-cmsed m>on its WQiitf. —Own Conospomicut, Juuu IGUi.)