TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2679, 12 September 1889, Page 2

TE AROHA.

Domain Boauo Meeting.—Owing to tho weather on Saturday, the usual monthly meeting of this Board did not take place. Outrageous Idiocy.—The inhabitants of this usually quiet and well-conducted twwn were made alarmingly aware on Friday morning that several ruffians and wreckers of a low type exist in tins place, breathing the same free fresh air as they do themselves. Very early on Friday morning, from what can be gathered about this extraordinary conduct, either five or six men belonging to the town were seen sauntering about after midnight by Constable Howell, but, as thero was nothing very particular in their conduct to justify tho constable to watch these persons, several of whom he knew as respectable men and fathers of families, he repaired to his homo about two o'clock. By daylight on the same morning it was discovered that heavy gates had been lifted off their hinges, street bridges had been torn up and overturned, lamps put out, and windows broken. At the premises of the local printer, ihe closet was upturned and wrecked, and his horses were let loose and driven from their pastures. During their devastating and disturbing course through the town, voices were heard and recognised outside Thomson's Family Hotel, threatening to throw a dog through a window on to the bed of a person in some way connected with the hotel, and who is not highly esteemed of them. The police, naturally, are doing what they can to sheet it home to the persons suspected, and have obtained strong circumstantial evidence against several of the aforesaid midnight revellers.