ARATATPU.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5492, 24 June 1879, Page 3

ARATATPU.

Owing to the very bad weather we have had, our hitherto regular communication has been broken off. Last week, wo were a day lata with oar ordinary Tuesday's mail, and this week as yet, has brought us none. This unusal state of affairs seems to shut us out' from the world, and increases a motonony, which with the regular arrivals and departures is not so much felt. Notwithstanding the very fierce winds, and heavy rains, we have to chronicle no known accidents on our river. Our business activities continue, and four vessels gracing our wharves with their presence, tell of awakening traile impulses. The Flora, Magellan Cloud, and Maud Graham, all loading with kauri, and the Aratapa is preparing to do so. We are glad that the Licensing Court denied a licence to the applicant for one between Aratapu and Kopurn. The matter was gone about so secretly that we only got a breath of information, and certainly had neither time nor knowledge enough to oppose it in the form proposed by the Licensing Aot, which is so constructed that the whole onus both of proof of particulars, authentification of signatures, and payment of costs falls upon the people who, in the event of such a place going up, would be the injured parties. —[Own Correspondent, June 18.]