RAGLAN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2334, 25 June 1887, Page 2

RAGLAN.

During the whole of Saturday last, a severe easterly gale was blowing, which increased in violence as night came on. Considerable damage was done to fences and green oats growing for winter feed in many places was levelled to the ground. In fact the ■whole of tho last fortnight has been very unsettled weather. The Maoris who have returned -from tho Land Court, have assembled at the Kopua, near Raglan. They are not altogether satisfied with the decision given, but seem determined to make the best of it. At any rate they seem to have enjoyed themselves with_ the good things provided for them on their return. Is ever have I seen so many pigs hung up, or such quantities of shark on view. They have been bnsy making new canoes for the next fishing season, dragging them down from the mountain side, three or four miles to the wator. •

Great preparations are been made for celebrating the Jubilee. A Jubilee service is to be held on Sunday evening in tha Wesley an Church. On Monday the 20 th the school children are to have a large fire in the evening with fireworks, and are to be entertained !by their kind teacher, Mr Horsey and his wife. On _ Tuesday the Raglan Jubilee Committee will give a grand entertainment and ball in Powell's large premises. A. large number of invitations nave been issued and no doubt a great gathering of loyal subjects will take place. As yet no candidate for Waipa has paid us a visit, nor have we yet seen an address from any aspirant to that honour. But of course it cannot now be long before we see who are the coming men. In January, of the year 1885, a political meeting was held in Raglan, and a series of resolutions were passed, which, at the time, were held in ridicule to many of your readers, and laughed to scorn by the members of the House who read them. But how stands the record now? These very resolutions are the sum and substance of nearly every speech we read of, for they went in for drastic retrenchment in every direction and in all departments of the Public Service. Reduction of salaries from the Governor downwards, abolition of payment to the Upper House, redaction of the educational; expenditure, doing away with Education Boards, limiting education to the fourth standard, giving committees increased powers, doing without inspectors, etc., retrenchment in departments and reduction in taxation, the trial of Vaile's scheme upon a section of the railway, also letting a section to private enterprise and the establishment of a Bank of Issue. In fact, a wholesome purging of the whole concern, "none of your half measures." "Watchman, what of the night "now? Sir R. Stout not long since, in Auckland I think, said: "That the people dwelling in towns were more intelligent than those living in the country." Perhaps so, at any rate the Raglan people had the common sense to pass resolutions that the intelligence of the whole community now are crying out for adoption.—(Own Correspondent, 18th June.) i