TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2026, 2 July 1885, Page 3

TE AWAMUTU.

Ijiopf tho town hoard at the next meeting wfll d<> something tow Aids putting a stop to grazing c»fcfclo and horses, iv tho public streets. Apart from tho danger to people ' who walk out at night, there mo always cornphints of damaged gardens and broken fences. Barbed wire is no protection against thosi ptnta, nottiement cftttle, for if they cannot Ret through they jump. It is ton bud that people sliould be allowed to quarter their cnttlo on their neighbours. A few days ago one of theso tumblosemc aniinalti jumped into a garden and destroyed every vi-gctablo tn it. Mr Lewis' g.mlon was also \isited, mid the brocoh— of which he had a gicvt number— were almost all oaten. Homos are to be seen continually gr.i/mgon tlio footpath*, and on voiy dark nights Kde*tnans run a great risk of Ikmii^ kicked. r. Blunden was riding home oue very daik night, when suddenly ho heard a \ iciou*! squeal from a horso that kicked at the same time, and wore it not that ho was riding a big upstanding horse, his log would have been Tmtken, for the bruto thnt kicktd »t him struck his hoi ho just under the rider's foot, which was gra/cd by tho kick. One of the town commissioners -aid the nuinance wan becoming ho eieit that ho had serious thoughts of attiching a cow-catcher to himself whnn going out at nig it. Tf the board does not paw a law putting a stop to running cattle and horie<t m tho skei-ts at night, tho wearing of cow-catchers will bionuie fafhionnbln, »nd the local storekeepers Will \* advertising the now addition to evening dress in all shndes wd patterns. The want of a pound in a great mcon-M-niecc, f.>r if therowpre siioh ,i place to put c.vttlt 1 , in, jM'oplo would lumorc careful in keeping them out of this neighboms' guidons. • Tim uoUlur* thoraughty* appreciate * tho ch*ng« in the railway time-table, for tho njftil is now delivered at half-put 'two instead of being kept till iovpii ns before, • thf re-tilt is tti.it vciy few dome to tho pout office dining tho cveniivg. In such places as this, kilnkilii and Alexvndr.i. the hoin in tho evening is not requited. If the postnustfiH bad iw*HWtants so that they could"' attend turn about, it would bo all right, out the hoiii-.s are tod long for ono poison. It in repotted that a paity of natives and European* li.ivo left Kilnkilii for tho Alaori country to prospect for gold, but I havo not heard anything \ery dehuito as yet. It i»Hnid they laid ma stook of pro\istons, ho that if Hiich a party has gone up the country, they mean to make a stay. It was wud that wnno of the men stated they knew where to find gold, ho that apparently the place ha« been pretty well prospected already. .. \\Qiat a pity it is that tho best part of te XvfMmxtu is on ned by the Government And religious bodies. Along with the desire to regenerate the "untutored savage," there was a considerable amount of wjitdly wisdom displayed by the eaily jniisionnrie*, for it is a remarkable fact that church property u always valuable, for the £ arsons were axtuto enough to chooio good md, and only in good localities. Tho moot valuable building sitos here are owned by tho Chitrch Mission, and can only ba held under lease. The consequence ii that people are.shy of taking thorn up, especially M the l«Mes are him|>ered with certain stringent conditions as to value of buildings, which revert to the mission at the end of the least. Thu Gov eminent paddock might very well be cut up into building sites and sold. It is utterly useless ns it is, and is only a nursery for noxious weeds, which ■^fc^-end on tn adjoining properties. It has a fiont.i^o to tho in <in street, so that a jpxi.l many allotments could lie got which y uould no doubt bring f..irly good prices. — (Own (Joiicxpoiidciit )