IE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2804, 3 July 1890, Page 2

IE AWAMUTU.

V.U.KIHCTOKV SEUSIO.NS ISV THE KkV. .Mil Bou:it. —Tlie Rev. Mr Poler preached his farewell discourses at St. John's Church, Te A waiiintu, and at tho Anglican Church at Kihikihi, on Sunday, Junc±!nd. The congregations were large, and thu rev. gentleman's addresses on both occasions were marked with much appropriate wisdom, although in part tinged with a shade of sorrow at severing his long connection with the large disti ict over which he had ministered. As Mr 13oler is like the good clergyman referred to in Sweet Auburn " --"a man who was to all the country dear "—hilt, unlike him. he could not bs said to be "passing rich on forty pitindsa year," because his stipend was larger. But, stil', through bad times long continued, and the many expenses fot repairs to various chinches that lie and the several votiies have had to meet, his income, small as it was, has got into arrears.

Cukstaiii.k Ldwthkh.--Constable Lowthcr has now taken up his quai tors in one of tho houses belonging to the Town Hoard, formerly one of the Constabulary houses tn the Government paddock. S i far back as May 18ts7, Mr Forbes Gordon, then Town Clerk, was instructed to apply to the Commissioner of Police, Alajor Gudgeon, for police protection and as ho very properly urged in that letter that Kihikihi was three mites nvvay from Te Awamutu, tho nearest police station, that Kihikihi, being on the frontier of the King Country, large numbers of Maoris resorted to it for trade, and that for the protection of property and life, a constable wan required. It was only, however, lately that tho present chairman of tho Town Board, aflet repeated efforts, obtained the services of a policeman. I think that Mr Dinneoit and the inhabitants generally, are to be congratulated on their success in this matter I think no better and more efficient police otlicer could havo been sent here than Constable Lowther. Active, intelligent, and resourceful, without being officious or overbearing, aud having much tact, lie is just the man. He and Constable .Jones of Te Awamutu are excellent men, and in Inspector Fmerson they have a worthy chief. Road Wouks at Kihikihi.—Several much needed works havo been contracted for. and will soon doubtless be in full swing. Lyons-street will be kerbed from the Star Hotel to Mr.J. W. KHis' store. Something is also to be done to Monlle-street, which will be a step ill the right direction. The paths in vaiious pari:, of the towns are being gravelled. The main drain has been cleared out, and parts of it deepened, mid other necessary work will be done. Altogether it may be said of Kihikihi, notwithstanding~iho dullness of times, that it does progress, even if slowly.