RAGLAN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2164, 22 May 1886, Page 3

RAGLAN.

' of a very stormy nature has preWiled more or less during the last few r vreeks, and the roads are now getting in " many parts difficult to travel over. The t dther day when our local steamer, the . jHapnah Mokau, was crossing the bar a L ljeavy sea washed over her, tilling the lifeboat and almost knocking overboard the cook, who escaped with severe cuts and i bruises about the head and face. The sea has been very rough during the week, the n , steamer being delayed several days in consequence of the rough weather. It would , appear as if we might expect a long and '•{severe winter. 11 The political excitement continues here. Our present member, Mr Lake, was >lisjf^fWpd to with interest last Saturday, and now that Parliament has met all attention will be given to reports from Wellington. .It was strange that at Mr Lake's meeting ''none, of the prime movers in Raglan's gtjeat; ' !> ttrilitical meeting were present to questioV "'him an' "to the now world -famed resolu-lotioiM-tben and there passed. But I .expect when the dissolution takes i place! we shall hear of them again. ! < At the Whaingaroa Road Board annual ., -meeting a«, well mAt the annual meeting of roe Rajjlatf Town Hoard, resolutions were! passed in favour of bringing the Counties V&cV, into ;\ force; and* abdlishtn'gMtle road boards. g ln. fact «o, many,. public meetings have declared for- the J county that it if» a ■^r<mdwihe«thing'h«i»-noVbeen-cnrried ottt. y It is to bethoped the efforts of all the "Jocal l^odfe* of AV|ikat£ wjll be^ucce/sM in mbout on alteration in/ tins Hoj/ „ . Cnaritabli- Aid Act hi last session. I see from the Governor's speech iti*-to be^unended,. aud a-good thins too. The efforts' of Mr S. Tfaile jto i dvance settlement by "redttqing rnili ay {fares and charges meet with the t pproval of most of the settlors in this dist 'ict. May he live to see all^-his hopes real* i :ed, and many of the evils _of * the old country avoided, viz, crowding ot large masses in cities such as Auckland, in our fenH r-Thmi r -Thmi , Hamilton, „« Cambridge, Te Kawbia, 'Raglan ancV< bther .^((viuuwtiuld have their' share of the p*opulation, and adjacent lands would be snp—■piw'Hiya contented agriculthrat population. For after all agriculture is the backbone' of arty land; ■ , i < ' ' i r,i , , ; Jtihas often struck ,the writer whtb.alpity it is that a' school is not established in the eading town of Wuikato „ where, . young ■ettlers who are engaged jn agrioultiiro, could be insttucted by popular lecurei or otherwi* e in chemistry, geology and l^indred hdence. But little expense, would be required, only let some of the leading, men nuve in the matter, and I feel sure would follow.' - In > every village of Yorkshire years ago this was dune and- »ntn t Germany too, as well . :as Belgium, France, etc. —{Own Correspon..dent). i ,' l^l Raglan, May 15th, 188 G. ' . I ,v ( = Most men like to see themselves in print. Ladies like to see themselves in ■illca and velvets.

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