TE KOPURU.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6997, 21 April 1884, Page 6

TE KOPURU.

An st Court: held • atthe Police! Office; Te Kopufu, on: April before Mr* Thomas 8. Webbj J.P., .two sailors, of the barque Killarney,_.wete. charged, by Constable Saott with, being drunk oh Sunday, April 13, near the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Aratapu. He found one of them'lying on his face with his head buried in the sawdust. Turning him oyer, he saw that be was black in the face, and thought him dead. A gush of blood came' from hiß nose, after which he showed signs of life, and. recovered ao far as to abuse the coDiJtiible, who took him to the lock-up. Both pleaded guilty, and were fined 10s each ; coßts 4s 6d each. The Rev. A. Hitchcock has departed to take aobarge at Northcote, complaining that 'his slnpehd was hot sufficient. Since he has been here the districts of Arapohue and Whakabara have been abandoned to the Wesleyans, who are erecting a _ chapel at Arapohue, ahd brobably there will-soon be one at Whakabara. These two blocks ax 6 now studded .with 'hqmesteods, mostly hewn out of tha insb, the settleraare : fairly, prosperous'.,'; ' •••• ' Thd Conht£'.'C6un'cil are doirig' excellent 'qn i;: the main-road'frOih Kopuru to <Arata'pur/.This road'is.'a:dead-level, 1 except the cliffs/,whioh mpunt to the Kgpuru tableland," 75] feet high.,. This rise is now being ■graded to, one in: eleven by the* cbntraotor, Mr. Stan,field, .who is doing the; work in a creditable maimer, t

,Sinoe the.Land.Board took the wise course of fifiiting up ' the west coast part of the Kopurn block'intd convenient sections much has [been-taken up; principally by saving gumdjg'gerß,who, are weather;board fencing in, land, and,-garden-ing. .-A strawberry garden" is being planted, of which a ready sale will beVfound.r.td'Tfte numerous visitors to the west'coast,' Which ia a favourite resort of the- mill'- hands and settlers._ The beach there is wide and firm for riding, extending unbroken. for fifty miles. - The cliffs are imposing, 300 -feet high, inhabited by clouds of.sea.fbwl/;- The fishing,is good ; schnapper and kawai can be .taken in any quantity by a long line with heavy sinker. 'Quantities of a' large and'delicious shellfish can be dug out of the sand, and cascades of pure water from the blup lakes; descend on the beachv On 'Good Friday there were there, about one •hundred horsemen, 'several carts, and many , pedestrians. ' . The grandeur of - the surf defies' description. *•*- [Own Correspondent, I April 15,]