MEREMERE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2762, 3 July 1894, Page 2

MEREMERE.

' f ■'•■ (ntOßt A COERKSPONDKinfi) Tbe other day when battling (that's » good term) through the mm on tbe. Meremere road ; I heard of » man. There was nothing out of the way.- ~ in this; often I hear voices. Bat not*-f raised in anger, as this man's voice was. Not abasing gentlemen who hold exalted rank in this fair land of E.M. trio— extinot moas, existing mortgages, and the ,. last E.M. — New Plymouth's own darling Hironsand, greatest of all/ Nor Meremere s ~. men are not merry . merry men, andlffc would soorn that 'tort of unpardonable levity. But about this voice I heard — we mustn't lose the run of that fust "yet. 'As I turned a corner this is what I heard :-— II Seddon, you're a blessed loafer—joa* take that! Stout' I'll break your blooming neck I Beeves, PUfW^'XQUiapl^ , And ■', I heard blows fftllfair^Yfift <£$:£! do? , Not long did I take to decide? I ' Vtafcof a billet on the unemployed/ a proßpeot oi being "created " a J.P., oama o'er my optics, and, with an axe to grind* I«xnihed to : the aid of our distiesiedfiatateimeo,. Bat, bless my i«HJt j*l«£<d!4>l.{ii»f A bullock driver^ addr^snn^^by^jsama individual mjeijflibers of'b}» team! Jj/afik is fame 1 Tha^oillet and the J.Psbip' arft^nppf po»Ba&ed * Tbe Meremere ecbbol^is 'among tke things that are. It was opened lift Monday with an attendarJ6eOoV scholars. - 1 " - was /iikide . toe Jjtbe other -4ay~; it is , Bmall, bat jjmfficiontfy t ]l&rge' «to * apoqrjQmedate |h* requirements of the district forlorn* time tpf.come. The present attendanc^Jrould have been considerably inpre4#ea* I had it not been that one settler "with a x large family was virtually driven out of the district owing to there, being no fobool. I bear the Meremere natives intend sending , a contingent of children as soon ai the poadd are good. In honor of this, laudable : )#^pUpn i:il soat.ter to the lout windi tbe whqle of my knowledge, of' the Jiatfra language; " Eapai te Maori.*?' - ' '" ' The store bditdingis still being removed, and a diffloall job it is to ghift r a fourroomed building on a sledge dralvn by bullocks along a 'bosh road. If;onlybalf of' the- ideas', propounded hajra a#«io the correct method of shifting buildinn wen practicable, tbe building wbuld^fii half way up Mount Esmont by this f»L and wonld easily gain the summit<£"'tomorrow at, dinner time. HeanWpile it rests on the road possibly awaiting newer' tbedrieß^' but with Stout, * Seddon and Beeves iin.^be yokes— wby,;tbey f ihould mpye anything, from a notice of motion to a family mansioh. ' si J *"rtatoff , -We are experiencing «4 a *Bj M^k'A weather,, but live in hope that ,thejoiqpi days will bring shorter showers. Stock of all descriptions are feeling the effects of being? a} ways wet, whiltt grass is daily becoming more scarce. " The onlyithing'fresh about theroadiii the mud. It becomes fresher every day. - I have not heard, of a eingla ,ba&hfelling oontraot being let in the Me'rerwe this 4 season. Last year several ganfePWere at work at this time. Bui there iv plenty of time yet, though, JDfeu, a very small are* will be oleared here thißyear. Tbe Maori! hav^ Already, felled a, gataUblqelt near Mr Hobby.-June 29.. . ; '. „