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Northern Advocate, 11 August 1888, Page 4

WAIPU.

' (From our own Correspondent.) t I MUST plead scarcity of news this week. ■ I expect the present depression must bs ■ felt in the news market as wellajTin other branches of iivdjistl^r-^ittt the i consequent retrenchment following its ; footsteps. But tal bin gr o f depre saion and 1 retrenchment remind^ m e that, in some • instances these disa& r eeable facts may ; prove in the end to bo only partly evils, or bad just for the present. Several oi • us when our doings as settlers are examined should not 0 considered settlers , at all in therjFgper sense of the word. "We own fjjrms, it is true, but we made ! our livmrf^ ijot on the farm, but out oi IthejE^penditure of public money in this Stud the surrounding districts, by taking contracts, &c., &c. ; the farm meantime, or at least the house built on it, being U6ed only as a home when no work was to be had. Now things are different: only a few contracts can be got, and bui few people can be employed in that way Consequently , the question, of how tbx wolf can be kept at a respectable distanct from the door, looks us straight in th( face ; and lam happy to say that souk of the signs I notice around and througl J the district promises some good result in the near future. Many of us ar< B preparing larger extents of giound foi r crops of all Amds, and some wh( p neglected their farms almost entirely an now taking a lively interest in th( growth of wheat, oats, potatoes, anc such ; the proper time for planting anc 3 the right condition of soil, &c, &c while others are busily engaged abou the building of barns and other farn buildings. Others are applying t( 7 Government for small peices of land thai ' some time ago would not be considered j worth looiing at; while others wh( thought they were scarce of land hav< * gone to other settlements to buy. ' Whooping cough is still holding it: own here, and very lively will now tili r the warm weather sets in; but there ar< no very severe cases of it reported. 1 Miss Hamlin, from Waiuku, is apI pointed assistant teacher in the Central ' School, "Waipu, instead of Miss |Hawkins, . who is about to leave for Auckland. L s The people around the centre are SOrrj ' to part with Miss Haw&ins, she being a very successful teacher, and very agreeable in her way, took a very lively pan | in the interests of the district, and wae a great favourite with her scholars. The barge Totara is now making trips [ to Waipu, carrying heavy goods, such as potatoes, bonedust, &c, &c, for the planting season. The owner of the vessel, Captain J. McKenzie is now a settler, having ta&en charge of "his father's (D. McKenzie, Esq., J.P.) property, so that trips of the Totara [ may in future be of more frequent occurrence than formerly. ; FOOTBAIi. A football team from here played a team at Mangapai on Saturday, and won, as will be seen in the Mangapai report, by six tries and a goal to nil. On ! Saturday the 11th the Waipa team will 3 play at Maungatoroto team ; and, some r time after that they mean to have another - trial with a Whangarei team, when they > hope to be more successful than on the 5 last occasion.