WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 156, 27 November 1895, Page 2

WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS

Induces a healthful secretion of the gastric juice, a chief agent in the process of the transmutation of food into blood.

A young native named Ngahuru, about i<) years of age, and son of Koiohiko Haupapa died at tlie pa here yesterday morning. Reference was made to the lad's condition in the CniloxicxE some time ago. It appears that he has been suffering from a diseased knee joint caused by a kick received at football three year's ago. For months past lie has been in great pain and was brought here from | the Koutou some days ago to be subject* d to medical treatment. Nothing however could be done for him and he died, as stated, yesterday. The usual tangi is being held. The large carved Maori house at ! Maket.il, known as Uenuku, belonging to | the young Ngatipikiao chief, Henave j Matini, is about to be dismantled and j re-erected at one of the settlements on ] L ike Rotoiti, near the ancestral home of j the Ngati Taniatoatutahi. Tlie house is j without doubt the best specimen of native I architecture in New Zealand. The carv- | ings are most elaborate and have not j suffered from mutilation though scarcely j fit for any but men to view, or perhaps ! the new woman. Some very liberal offers | have been made for the house by collectors and museums, but the owner thinks I it will prove a better source of revenue j when erected at Rotoiti. It is also j Henare's intention to raise and remodel the old war canoe, To Iroiro, now subi merged in the lake. This canoe is 93ft long and Bft beam with elaborate carved topsides, stem and stern posts. It is probable that this may incite some of the other tribes in tlie neighborhood to go in for the building of war canoes and lead to the revival of canoe racing on the lake. Travelling between here and the Urewcra country has been rendered much more easy of late owing- to the progress of the roads up that Way. The Sunday before last Mr R. Wake left Rotorua in a light buggy, arrived at Galatea the same night and went on to Te Whaiti on the Monday. On Tuesday he packed stuff for Ruatahuna on the same horses and spelled them on Wednesday. He left Te Whaiti 011 Thursday morning and arrived in Rotorua at (i o'clock the same evening, covering a distance of <>,) miles that day. Between here and the Bungalow the road is reported as being pretty good though considerably cut up by the recent rains. Thence to Galatea it is very bad though repairs are going on. Between Galatea and Te Whaiti the route is excellent as it is only recently made. On towards Ruatahuna the road is practically finished for about 10 miles, but for the other l(i miles the old track, which is very rough, has to be used. Only one ease occupied the attention of Lieut.-Col. Roberts at the usual sittings of the Magistrate's Court last Friday, but it was sufficient to last all day and into the evening as well. Whareliuia. a Galatea native, proceeded against W. Bird and Ropeta Haimona, also known as Ropeta Te Ilauiti, for £IOO heinsr the value of 300 sheep alleged to have been killed by dogs belonging to the defendants or lost by the action of said doafs. The only evidence in regard to the lanrer portion of the sheep sue 1 for was given by the plaintiff and his wife. In regard to a Couple of shoop the testimony was more clear and a. verdict was enterd for their value. 15s. and costs i'2 10s. It appeared that the plaintiff vis not the only nwnw of the sheep in question and it was also pretty plain from t'.e absence of the coowners from the Court that they did not acquiesce in the proceedings. Maranui Rawena. one of the witnesses, stated that small mobs of sheep frequently strayed away from the settlement owing to the land being uufenced and had been found as far off as the Kaingaroa plains.