WAITARA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2765, 6 July 1894, Page 2

WAITARA.

[FROM OUR OWN' COBRBBPOSI>E!IT.]', v . Tbe Btartltag newi r« tbe Bank pf N*i? Zealand on Saturday -did. not afifeo^ni much here. I fanoy none of our reiidenti . bold shares, and most, of us are relieved from anxiety about money matters ;by f ib# absence of tbe ready. It is sometihiti an advantage to be impecunious. < ;moa On Monday evening we turned up strong at the telograpb office ready to meet sis Marton representatives at chess over^ba wire, but, alas, the wires would not wrok beyond Wanganni, and we had to play, friendly games with »one another I hiatl that some of the BangHikei men bad^ come in a long distanoe to play, so that it was most annoying to them,' no doubt. They meet New Plymouth on Monday next, when I hope the electric fluid will be favorable. - ■-„', ,;,-; I hope next week to give, yon oar opinion on the blooke of land pat np in tbe Waitara survey diitriot I fanoy they will be well competed , for, as they are;., between Tikorangi and Tarata, and a road ; must go through there next year. 5 The co-operative men' left the' job in ftht middle. V;. Mr Brennan, an old Taranaki military • settler at Hoirangi, has taken Mr Bluck'i cottage temporarily. Ho has travelled over many part of the world since lea?io| Waitara, where he owns property, but'J tells me that on the whole this province is as good, if not better, than anything be has Been} One of the last places he iried was Ooolgsrdie, and he 'emphatically condemns ft as a terribly arid and sterile country wito scarcely any rainfalli aod ( incapable of growing anything whatever. The gold is surface, and nuggets very few and far between. If you have any money it is a very good place to get rid of it with the maximum amount of discomforts, as even such a small luxury as a wash cannot be indulged in Mr Brennan says the influx of new men to get oleaned oat ofeathis the only think thai keeps up the population. Mr Brennan is heartily welcomed by bis old friends in this neighborhood, and by next summer will, I hope, have a " ooolgarden " of bis own in Waitara. July 5. ___•!. •_■ -