WAIOROIIGOMAI.

Waikato Times, Volume 2620, Issue XXXII, 27 April 1889, Page 2

WAIOROIIGOMAI.

The Weather.—lt is not news to tell you that we are having glorious weather here just now, but from a miner's point of view, great glory would bo ascribed to tho clerk of the weather were ho to send us a fort- [ night's steady rain a3 a change. Our creeks are altogether dry, and tho swine, which, to the disgrace of this place, are allowed to wander in our streets, appear to protest by their gruutiugs against Nature's spare allowance of moisture. "Yes," said a Kerry man to me this week, " thim fat divils is a grate nuasance in our streets, but they're very handy hung up in your kitchen in the winter tonne," and undoubtedly, should the weather not break before long, Paddy and the pig must inevitably become more intimate with each other. Of course, it would be put down as " another injustice to Ireland" to mention m this connection the survival of the fittest. In case, as to numbers, I have not mado myself sufficiently explicit, it is but fair to tho residents here, generally speaking, to stato that each householder has a pig, and, as a rule, a litter of them pottering about tho streets. But apart from this comfortable assuranco of tho prosperity of the place, I aia afraid that the want of a needful supply of water soon may throw a large number of men out of work here. To-day (Wednesday) I was told that the whole of the men employed on the tramway had received notice that their services would have to bo temporarily dispensed with, and that there are but ten men employed at tho battery works. Only ten head of stampers are going, and these may have to be stopped soon should the " glorious " weather not change. JJew Era Special Claim.—Since the arrival of Mr Pater Ferguson, preparatory work has boen actively gone on with to further the development of this patch of country. Already arrangements have beei) made for the supply of between 25,000 to 30,000 feet of timber, and part shipments of machinery from the Old Country are being placed on the ground. The works here are not to ba slipshod, but thorough, and between the two great works it ie but reasonable to hope this place will hold a very important position in the near future as a I gold and silver producer, backed by capital and scienco.