TE AWAMUTU.
Dhpakture of Mil Soimv.—Mr Sorby and family left hero on Saturday fur their new place of residence, Pahi, on the Kaipara Kiver. Sinco his anival here ho has taken :i great interest in Church matters, having been a lay reader from tho first, coming down trom his farm every Sunday and in nil weathers to conduct service at St. John's. Besides being lay-reader he was also Minister's Warden. Hs will be greatly missed by the Church for he took a great intorest in its affairs. Socially he and his family will also be much missed, for they were universally esteemed, many of their friends assembling at the railway station to bid them good-bye and God speed. We all unite in wishing them happiness and prosperity in their new home. New Buildings.—Mr Lyons has two shops in course of erection on tho site of those burned down last April Mr Doyle, of Kihikihi, being the sucessful tenderer. There were originally three shops but two only are being built, but the two are far finer and more valuable than the original three. They are lofty and will have handsome fronts, and are the finest •hops in the town. Native Curs and the Dog-tax.—Not-withstanding the theory that there is only one law for both races, the practice appears to be the reverse in thematterof the Dog-tax, native curs roaming about at pleasure and doing as much mischief as their mongrel nature prompts them to, some weeks ago one of these pests, which had cultivated a taste for eggs, roamed about To Awamutu at will visiting the fowl houses daily. The native owner, who lives close to the town, knew of his dog's taste for eggs, yet he never attempted to restrain him by chaining him up, but serenely let him feaist on the eggs, and worry the fowls of the pakeha. We were all sufferers till I managed to catch him one morning, when a revolver bullet put a stop to the brute's depredations. The loss of a few dozen eggs is in itself, perhaps, trifling; but these curs that develop a habit of thieving do not usually confine themselves to this Lenten diet, but, as a rule, wind up by contracting an unholy passion for wool sorting. Now, if every native who brought his dog into European districts were compelled to buy a collar or have the dog summarily shot by the collector, there would bo fewer complaints of valuable sheep being worried. I know a settler who has the misfortune to live on the boundary, with only the Punui river between him and some native settlements, who has been compelled to give up keeping sheep owing to the continual loss occasioned by these curs. Letters innumerable have been written to the various papers, and local governing bodies have been requested to set the law in motion, but nothing has eome of it, and the dogs wander about with as much impunity as ever. Foreign Consultations.—Last week I got a letter containing two circulars giving particulars of a monster consultation upon some Australian race meeting. They purported to have been issued by the " Sydney Jockey Turf Club." Now, no such institution exists, and it is certain no respectable racing club would lend itself to such transactions, but many people doubtless are not aware of that, and seeing such a nama would take it as a guarantee of good faith and would invest a gjinea in the vain hope
nf hearing something more of it. Consultations have been, and rightly so, put down in this colony, but the evil is not put a stop to, only mitigated in a small degree, if these foreign sweep promoters are permitted to •ond'their fraudulent advertisement? broadcast over the country. These circulars came by book post so that there was nothing to hinder the Post-office orhcials knowing the nature of the contents. Letters containing remittances addressed to these sweep promoters are constantly stopped by the Post-office officials, but there can be little doubt that considerable sums find their way each year from the pockcts of the fools in New Zealand into those of the knaves in Australia, It would be a good idea to stop all such circulars at the port of entry and burn them, and so prevent their doing any mischief. _ Thk Willow Nuisance. — This may sound rather strange, but it is true, for the willows planted along the banks of the Manyaohoe are proving such. They have croxvn into the bed of the creek, and have dammed the water back to such an extent that ill wot weather a great deal of the land higher up is flooded. Mr North went to an infinite amount of labour to drain a swamp he bought off Mr J. H. Mandeno, and having done so ploughed part of it, and sowed wheat, but there is now a large lake !:n it, owing to the water being kept back by the willows. It will yet cost many hundreds of pounds to remedy the evil.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2690, 8 October 1889, Page 3
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838TE AWAMUTU. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2690, 8 October 1889, Page 3
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