NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11826, 2 December 1901, Page 6

NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] TE KOWHAI. AT the meeting of the local branch of tho Waikato Farmers' Club, 'the secretary reported that lie had forwarded to Mr. Diss, Chief Postmaster, the documents bearing on the establishment of a post office. Mr. Henderson had reduced his demand for taking charge of the office to £8 per annum, and Mr. Laxon bad agreed to carry the mail six days a week for £15 per annum. These offers have been forwarded. TE AWAMUTU. THE Waikato West Flower Show has proved a, financial success; there will he about £50 added to tile funds of the library. TE ROUE. THERE was a fair attendance at the annual concert .in aid 'of the school picnic and sports fund. The cold and unseasonable weather we have experienced lately has had a rather disastrous effect. A parallel to this season is not remembered by the oldest inhabitant. Last Thursday morning the frost was so severe that a number of promising crops of potatoes liavo been cut down. PATERANGI. THE members and adherents of the Paterangi branch of the Presbyterian Church, and. a few from the surrounding districts, met on Thursday evening to bid good-bye to their late pastor, the Rev. Waller Smith, who has severed his connection with the church in New Zealand. Mr. Smith had been in charge of the church for three years, and for family reasons is compelled to return Home to Scotland. Mr. R. Kay, the senior ekter, occupied the chair. lie referred in euloeristic terms to the many excellent qualities of Ihe truest of the evening, and on his own and the congregation's behalf wished him every success in the future, and Ion? life and happiness. He then asked Mr. Smith to accept from the congregation a purse of sovereigns, as a small token of respect. Mr. Smith suitably replied. CAMBRIDGE. AT the ordinary monthly meeting of the Cambridge Borough Council, the clerk reported that ail Auckland monumental mason had recently erected a stone in the Cambridge Cemetery, and left about three loads of earth heaped up alongside an adjoining grave. Councillors were indignant at the offender's action, and the clerk was instructed -o write him that unless the earth was removed forthwith, the Council would remove it at his expense. The financial statement snow en the overdraft at date as £196 0s 2d. J. Harris' tender was accepted for work in King and William Streets East, and R. A. Stanley's tender for work in King and Willam streets West. Mr. Arthur Boult, conductor and organist of St. Thomas' Church, Auckland, intends visiting Cambridge, Hamilton. Rotorua, l~aeroa, and Te Arolia. with his choir, during the Christmas holidays. St. Andrew's Church. Cambridge, has received a gift of a pair of oeaut'ful brass candlesticks, of chaste design. The donors are the Rev. Dr. and Mrs Hooper, who recently resided in the district, and to whom the parishioners are indebted for many kindnesses.