HARAPIPI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1122, 19 June 1867, Page 6

HARAPIPI.

(FEOM OUR OWN CORKESrONDENT.) June 10. Since tho rough weather—mentioned in my last letter—wo have hud a whole week of fine dry weather, with sharp frosts at night, and most suitable to all out-door work. '"; .v 7! Tho river Waipa is high enough for all tho steamboa a to go up to Alexandra ; and while on tho subjoct of steamboats I think I should Bay a word or two about tho way in which tho mails come up. Although thero are no less than three boats on tlio river, or has been until lately,—tie Blnonoje being under repair,—thorojsecmcd to bo rot tl'deasi system or regulation as to how they are sent; so-ietimes we get none all tho week, and next week we get two or three; then sometimes the mail is taken up to Alexandra instead of boing left at Te Rori, if tho C.iptain does .not like to call, and as to the English letters aid newspapers, it seems to bo all a matter of chance how they como up ; wo hear that the English mail is in, and wo then think that perhaps iu ton or lourtecn days wo may see an English paper, and sometimes we do get ono, then a letter or two come straggling up, and perhaps aaothor paper, and so on until another mail comes in, and then it is repeated. There appears to be a great deal of money spent in post-oilico and mail work, but I must say it is for worls very imperfectly performed. Thero is another small, or I should say largo grievance, that I think should have a littlo inquiry into, and that is tho way things aro done at tho lt.M.'a Court up here ; a Court is supposed to bo I'old thero every fortnight, at loast it is given out to that effect. Now, many of tho persons that have cases on there como a considerable distance, they not only lose their own time, but porhaps have to bo at tho expense of bringing ono or two wit- ! nesses, and when they get thero thoy aro told that thero is no Court to-day, it is put off for a week. This is not tho case once in a way, if it was no one would grumble, but it is a common occurrence, anl should not bo allowed. The greatest curse of tho Waikato is the same as it is at home in tho old country, namely, thoy do not put tho right men iu tho right placo. If £300 or £350 per annum is not thought enough for all that any resident magistrate has to do on tho .Waikato, I think that those who have the appointing of such persons should look out for a man of the right stamp, I mean one who knows a tiiilo about common law, and I think there aro a few such that would bo glad of the berth. One good ; cnergotic resident magistrate eiuld do all tho work 1 on tho Waikato from the Heads up to To Awamutu, : and I believe there aro no less than throe whoso main object seems to me to bo which can bost try hu-.v not to do it. All remains quiet in nativo affairs in and around • and I think that the Raglan correspondent of the Southern Cross, as I have repeatedly said, makes a gro :t deal of fuss out of nothing.