HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume XII, Issue 14, 19 May 1886, Page 2

HAWERA.

(prom our own correspondent.) I see you have been taking our local I?arHa^e%t^oaQ.dtdat^ r to...t^ks'{^d‘>'hav;e. done him the hohour of a leader, a good argumentative article, too. That’s right! Nothing like healthy criticism. To a novice it would,, have.dbeen a crusher, but Mr McGuire is ! riot’ a chicken in the political arena, therefore, hands having been shaken, I ippk for a good fair fight. Of course, I Condoled with ’“'life abput your hard hitting, and said to him : Oh, never mind, “censure’s fame.” The political arena ;promises to be filled with; gladiators a brilliant stirring spectacle awaits the people/ Come now, ye, othercandidates I Prepare to? strip, and show ,us the metal you’re made of, .What a lark, though, if there should be .no dissolution' after -all, this 'session! It appears quitb : problematic as to whether,there will or no. 1 • i -

Our-settlers ! are' now -taking up the dairy factory question with; energy. The Opiinake, Inglewood, and Norraanby haying been su successful, they are thereby encouraged. Manaia and Otakeho !have each made a. start, arid' f have no doubt that there will be a factory hear both; villages. Patea, Warerley, Manutahi,'and, Hawera might each have a dairy factory. The only thing wanting is unity amongst the.-settlers of the respective localities. When you hear .of settlers; drawing, their sixty and,{seventy, pounds pef-mo^tb, and still retaining ‘ their 'cows in ,t he bargain, as did one of the, Opunake ■ settlers during 1 the summer, it makes 06 e, Wonder at the {melancholy cry - of times,” as given utterance' to by many of •our, settlers* -{; { *j; ,i. i, :