HUNTERVILLE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1118, 4 August 1893, Page 18

HUNTERVILLE.

On Friday evening last the Paraekarefcu laddies entertained their many friends at the Argyle Hall. Most of the dancers attended in fancy dresses, and everything was of the best. Visitors were quite surprised at so good a turn-out in our little bush village. Mr P. J. O’Regan, who opposed Sir Robert Stout for the Inangahua seat, gave a lecture here last Evening on ‘ Progress and Poverty,’ going over old ground, as a matter of course, axiomatic truths being as old as old can be. The Single

Tax being nothing unless based on fundamental truths, no exposition thereof • can present new thoughts, but simply draw the minds of people to the fact that we have all wandered afar from the track which is straight. Mr O’Regan has a hard battle to fight, but if he has grit enough to run straight and not trim for expediency’s sake, he will make his mark among our politicians (so-called). I trust, however, that he will be a representative of the coming race of politicians rather than that he should enter the House at present, where thoroughly earnest men are sure to be in the minority. Terrible weather we are having—wet, wet, and still more rain. The ground is thoroughly saturated, and outdoor life a misery. The poor little school children ■ must be sitting all day with wet feet. But what are we to do ? They don’t seem to mind it. The public examination ;of the school children will take place next week, and all the youngsters are working hard, the majority of them taking great interest in their studies and evincing an earnest desire to pass on through the respective standards. Hunterville has as good as won the football cup of the season. The boys have played well and. attended the outside matches at great inconvenience and cost, and well deserve the bay leaves. I hear that Mr Arkwright is to edit the Mercury. It is to be hoped that by so doing the paper may regain the prestige it gained at its initiation, which, by the persistent labours and the abilities of a little gentleman we wot of, led us to believe that the Mercury was to have been a power in the land of Rangitikei.