HARAPIPI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1076, 26 April 1867, Page 4

HARAPIPI.

(SUOJI OUR CWX COEtvESEOXDEXI.) Aprils 2. The weather is, on the whole, very favourable to £ sorts of out-of-door work at which all the ss'fe here are employed at the present time. The r,- :i that has been done does not show for ma:!, hi next spring there will bo a good many aires of grass land in and around thU settlement. A great deal of inconvenience and ann:;..:.S ■was caused at the beginning of thii n.'-ij by the non-arrival of the pay, which u; :s this time ha 3 not yet arrived—not that there'a | great deal that finds its way into this we have the large number of four men on pay; J still, little as it is, it causes some annoyance whr.i docs not come to hand on t'.ie usual day, mire :rj tieularly to those in business. I believe it i; tow up this week. Up to the presect time all remains as when liU wrote in native atfairs, or, if anything ha! inppe:;'. the news has not yet reached here, and I thin!; I» pretty correct in stating that nothing of anrixpoj unce has happened. The Qusen natives or;: ae Kaglan and around that district, I hear, are -ill J tfij busy getting ready for a grand tand on th<r 3r ; s ' ;i 3l sary of the death of their late chief, William and it seems that as well a3 crying they mom M UB jolly, for they are to have one ready cooked, three or four bullocks, and a gajM many pigs, also a lnrpe quantity of other Maori --'jiH cacics too numerous to recapitulate, and altoge'afH is to be a grand tangi—at least, that is the repr.'flffi tho affair as wc hear it —and that is about the -■Jg|| important bit of native news that I hare to tell of in this letter. Sjßm Our public spirited ferryman at To K'fr,l stand, has been rather annoyed at losing hu by some body claiming it, and at once takes :jS| session of it, thereby depriving this cntcrrr.?;: -fjea dividual of a great part of his income, no fc'HM his intense disgust and annoyance, as I least doubt but that ths paltry sixpence; ci'-jEBB very handy. However, we arc not nuw r.t ' " for a settler lower down, canoe which he allows tho settlers «ggj use of in crossing the river, and doe' sixpence per trip. A petition has beeu is to be from here, to tho Superintendent, to ostablisli a ferry at To Rori, as it is « venienco not having any permanent ||JH crossing. JBBS The Colonial Government p.s. Rnnijann - taken off the river, I hear. The Bliie"--*' ;aj|BS AVaipa, p.s., and tho Gymnotus, were ail «?- MB Eori during the past week. The mail i 5 ,^... by one of tho private boats. None of are yet ablo to get up to Alexandra, on 3 - c tho river being so low. £s|