RAGLAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 255, 6 September 1864, Page 4

RAGLAN.

Tl'ltOM OUtt OWN COIIIIESI'OXDENT.] August 27. A concert was given a day or two since by somo of our amateurs at the Court-house, in aid of the "Wesleynn Cliapol Building Fund. The loom was tastefully di corated. The music, vocal and instrumental, was exceedingly well done, and the whole allair was a deeidcd success.

Mr. John Allen has brought down a large mob of cattle for the. use of the Commissariat; thov are depasturing within a few miles of this place, aud aa the greater portion of them are from the Australian side, it is satisfactory to know that they are to bo inspected by Mr. Snodgrass, Government Inspector, who has arrived here trom Auckland.

August 31. Tho ' Wonga' is rather late tliis trip. Many parties have been waiting here for a week past—intending passengers to Auckland —very much to their annoyancc. Mr. Todd, Government Surveyor, arrived here yesterday. His staff of labourers has been supplemented bv some of the Waikato Militia, so that in all probability there is now a reasonable hope of something being done in the way of laying out the road to Waipa—always supposing that he is left to go on with it —as it is simply ridiculous to expect that any work of the sort can progress satisfactorily if a inun has to carry on two or three surveys at once, at points fifty or sixty miles apart.^ A great part of the Kawhia natives, Xgatiruanuis, &c., have returned from Taranaki, and arc nowsettling down at the former place. I believe they have made the discovery that Gabriclism is a great sliam, and in all probability they will have nothing to do either with the new creed or its promoters. Xgatiruanui will then have to shift for itself, and tho campaign in Taranaki, if any, will perhaps be a short one. Doubtless, Ngatimaniapoto will cut up rusty when tho settling day arrives, but they are not likely to make any stand; they may possibly make an attempt at a little diplomacy on the occasion, and seeing that thev are great hands at this sort of tiling, they will very probably walk over us —at all events, they are taking it uncommonly easy just now, judging by the way they are working at their plantations, tliey seem to have small tear of any immediate squaring of accounts.