NORTHERN WAIROA

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9832, 29 May 1895, Page 6

NORTHERN WAIROA

Mr. DRtrsfMOSD, of Arapohue, is the itanufacturer of a spraying pump which he is introducing to settlers and orchardistsof this and surrounding districts. Mr. Drunmond makes all the casting himself, and produces an article which is said to be fully eo.sal to the imported sprayer, and yet is sold at a much lower rate.

The children of the Arapohue school have subscribed and purchased an ornamental clock, which they intend presenting to their late teacher. Miss Mitchell, as a mark of their appreciation. The congregation at the chapel are also determined to recognise her services in a practical manner, and have decided on presenting her with a writing desk.

A gumdigeer named Anderson had his shanty robbed last week, and suspicion a: once rested on a Maori girl named Tuini, who was seen comiug from it, and who had been loafing about the river settlements for over a week. She was arrested, and pleaded guilty, and was given fourteen days, much to the relief of several storekeepers. At the Police Court, Aratapu, before Messrs. A. Harding and T. Bassett, William Canting was fined £1 and 16s costs for being drunk and disorderly on the night of Donald Dinnie's performance at Aratapa. A second charge of using obscene language was dismissed.

Mr. W. Thompson's name was inadvertently omitted from my * former notice of the Tokatoka cheese factory. I should have included Mr. Thompson's name as one of the prime movers and proprietors of the factory. Charitable aid is undoubtedly becoming a giant evil owing to the loose war in which it is administered, but this is not the fault of the local body. Our County Council has repeatedly complained of having had to pay claims tor hospital fees on patients who were quite unknown to them, but accounts still come in, and there seems no help for it. fSome returned patients state that money offered by them to the Auckland Hospital in payment of treatment has been refused. as that institution preferred rendering all accounts to the local bodies of the locilities from which they came. If this is so, it is a direct, inducement to people to shirk their responsibility.—[Own Correspondent.]