WAIHI.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 163, 11 July 1900, Page 2

WAIHI.

Sergeant • Hoar, of Auckland, who has been in Waihi for about a week instructing our local Rifle Corps,, held a very successful parade, last Saturday at the Range, when there' was a good muster. On Sunday a church parade was held at St. John's Church, the Rev. Thos. Eyken, the new vicar, preaching at both services.

Now that the weather has become so bad for all sorts and conditions of men, Mr J. Sleven, the proprietor of the local hot and cold baths, has decided to close his establishment three days in the week, viz., Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. These baths are proving a great boon to the township, and I understand that Mr Sleven, during the summer months, intends to make a specialty of cold baths.

Great dissatisfaction has arisen nere with regard to the new regulations affecting the residence site licenses, these titlea being only granted now with no cond'tlons on the back, the unfortunate would-be settler having to undergo with the mining companies, what he has undergone during the past with the Warden's Court. The Miners' Union hold a special meeting next Saturday to consider the question, and efforts are to be made throughout the district to obtain a title that will at least give a man some encouragement to improve his half acre of barren scruo The present condition of affairs simply prevents those who need a home from ever attempting to make one.

The Rev. Thos. Eykin, the new vicar of St. John's Anglican Church, is evidently the right man In the right place.