NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11620, 6 April 1901, Page 6

NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

[PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.]

HAMILTON. -"•' ON Wednesday morning a meeting was held m St. Peter's schoolroom, at which, the Most Rev. the Primate presided, of the clergy of the Archdeaconry of Waikato. The object of the meeting was to arrange for the alteration of the parochial districts. The Waingaro district was taken from Hamilton and given to Ngaruawahia, and the fiaglan district has been again given to the diocesan missionary. .

, TE. AWAMUTU. " SOME .time back, at a meeting of the Te Awamutu branch of the Waikato Farmers' Club, a resolution wa% passed in favour of putting the dairying industry in the Te Awamutu, Kihikihi, and Rangiaohia districts on a cooperative footing, and a sub-committee was appointed to go into the matter. This committee has received an offer from a firm of dairymen, and a meeting was held on Tuesday evening to consider it. The offer was read, but the committee decided not to make it public at present. Besides the committee several suppliers were present. The terms offered are somewhat , more favourable than those now: current, and included the erection of a butter factory in the Te AwamutuOhaupo district. The proposals were rejected by the committee, but the matter is to be brought before the whole body of the milk suppliers in the neighbourhood. The feeling of the meeting appeared to be in favour of co-operation. "WAITETUNA

THE annual picnic and sports in connection with the Te Mata district school were held on March 29. • The day was all that could be desired, and visitors from all parts of the Raglan district were . present. . Mr. Ramsay, the teacher, and the members ot the School Committee were indefatigable in their exertions to make the affair a success. The ladiei did theu share by providing an ample supply of provisions and attending to their distribution. The usual sports, which included a number of ; open events for adults, started at eleven o'clock. A lengthy programme was gone through, ' after which all partook of the refreshments provided. There was a dance in the evening in the schoolroom, which was largely attended.

" : "WADE. ' " THE last days of the past week bi ought forth, some exciting events, which will be long remembered by the settlers of the district. The first event I allude ;to was the unfurling of the flag at the Wade school on March 29. On Saturday, the 30th, about 40 volunteers belonging to Seddon's Horse, visited the Wade. They were entertained at a dance in the Town Hall on Saturday evening. On Sunday morning, at ten o'clock, they had church parade, and after luncheon at the Wade Hotel, they left for Auckland, well pleased with their country tour.—[Own Correspondent.]

NOBTHERN WAIROA MOUNTED RIFLES. THE Northern Wairoa Mounted Rifles (Dargaville division) paraded for drill at the Dargavillo Hall on March 27. There were present Captain McLeod, Drill/Instructor Hyland, and 24 troopers. The Aratapu- division mustered at Aratapu Hall on Saturday, at three p.m.; Captain McLeod, Lieutenant Langford, Drill Instructor "Hyland, and 25 troopers being present; while at Mititai, on the same evening, the Arapohue division of 24 troopers were instructed in infantry . drill by Lieutenant Stanley. The corps r has now reached its maximum, and applications are being daily refused. ■ ■ '