OHINEMURI NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2320, 24 May 1887, Page 2

OHINEMURI NEWS.

[l.'llOM OUU OWN . ' PAKROAj- Monday.' King has been oil a : : v visit. to Paeroa this week. Ho was the guest of Haora Taraianiii at the Junction settlement. Tho monarch appears hale and hearty. Ho wore considerable "frills," and evidently appreciated his' rank. This is probably the result' of . his visit to corrupt European Courts. Mr Thos. Hollis, who was sent by an Auckland and Fijian syndicate to prospect in the latter islands, has returned to Qhinemuri with a poor opinion of Fiji as a bullion producer, lie-says in a word that there is -nothing 5 ! there to encourage the slightest idea of payable gold being found there. .

Quite a flood of amusements, is pouring upon us. Last woek we had four nights of a diorama of the eruption at! Tarawera. On Saturday Mr Foley, who .appears to have earned a name for himself,: will appear iu his " Maceabean" characters. Races and sports at Mackay Town follow on Tues-. day, and the circus on Friday.- • We cannot be so badly off after all if we can afford to support so many of the non-producing sock-and-buskin brotherhood. ;Mr Fisher, the well-known pro" who was running the diorama just mentioned, gave tickets at the door which entitled each person coming in to a prize. The result of this harmless dissipation is a high-sounding information under the Gaining and Lotteries Act. ' • Those who have read The Golden Butterfly," by Messrs Besant and Rice, willremember the graphic description of the deserted goldfield township in America. The same idea is realised in a part of the Waitekauri district, where last week Was sold a fifty acre : agricultural lease, a sixroomed house and outbuildings, for the suifi of two pounds sterling. The title is as good as fee simple, and it is not ten years ago since a great rush was made for land in the district. •