HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 40, 20 May 1889, Page 2

HAWERA.

.From Oar Own Cor respuii>leiit.) Salvation is last on tlie wain, not iliac 'Vi: are drilling any closer to hot regions, j moan tho numbers of soldiers attending ilie usual knee drill at our local barracks have decreased considerably. x verily think tins noble >oldlers have dune tho duty laithluliy, and acted up to scripture precept. Ine was opened lu re by two hallelujah ius>ies tile I'ii,it sinucis operated on Uu\v J don't mean a surgical one : but a kind of ”o between, ] -art magnetic, elec trie, and scriptural—have been led to the altar and became the wives oi two of our .sc-ttiers ; while another soldier’s union is on the tapis. When these lassies arc turnei into mistresses of their own homes and have families to attend to, it beliov s them to look to that as their most lining place, where they can so model the rising generation that m> more soul saving s ■rvices will be ir(juircd to regenerate lueir ohspiiuir. so tluit our wives and daughters nee i nut go parading the streets, Hinging- unchristian truth at us about uiir certaintv ef eve’dasto g sin and eternal damnation. I.he captain in charge hero has cleared oat, his last weeks screw o:11 v came to two Colonial Huberts. Four support, certainly I Since ihat “ tread on the tail of mv coat ” aiFcle of yours, our Farmers’ Union lias bung lire. I hold several shares in tho Canterbury Fanners' Cooperative Association. 1 was requested by one oil the leading lights of the proposed Union to procure a copy ot the C. F, Co opperativc Association’s rules. Owing to the unprecedented success of that organisation it is argue s , “■ Wbv should not we, on tills coast, go and do likewise. 5 Ihe case, to my mind, is on a very different footing. The lamed truth is--but. then, 1 am not allowed to record—i was going to say the farmers won't p.y a salary that will induce a good man to take un the man ageixhip of the off or. home settlers think llie best way would be to employ au auctioneer by the bay, and, bless you, consider a pound enough for such services, Fat, there, 1 won’t say another word, your article winch appeared in your paper some time age, and reprinted in the Hawera Star, put the clincher on the whole affair, so far as I can hear 3 even tho rules, etc., of that successful association in Canterburv which I procured for the promoters, don’t seem to give any more stimulation to the concern. One or two of the prime movers wash to persuade me that a well-known auctioneer down vanway was tho author of that vile, but sharp, article, vim only from one point of view, and, utter all, perhaps, the most wiiole-.ouie piece of a Ivme our settlors have received fur sumo time— Certainly, in some crises, urn- auctioneers may charge too much commUshm. To charge commission on a cash transaction at 1 lie same rate as a credit one, is au evil requiring some remedy, and this is one of the evils our proposed Union is iryiug to erase, Our respected Episcopal cleigyman would require to be omnipresent every .sabbath to attend to the wants of his iaige district. A number ot gentlemen are now acting as lay readers when the itevd gentleman is administering to the spiritual wants ot ins iluck in other quarters, A few Sundays ago I heard tiio editor of our local paper go through the church service ami read a sermon, if i had my wisir carried out I would eadposo that all editors come lay-readers so that ->ve hearers might be able, for once, to criticise them, their accent, their reading and punctuation. Here, my mother’s side is predominant, we could have tho last word, the unfair editor will reimuk, to stab a man behind his back 3 but, really-, it is the only- chance for mu ordinary being to nave editors, for otherwise they . will Slave the lust word, j Uur 10c..i post cilice is peopled and j occupied by a bust of strangers, the old j liauds arc all on leave of absence, The | diief postmaster is off to llttssell for a j :wo months' trip, our assistant away* to j New Plymouth, chief telegraphist to ‘

' Auckland, the lineman lo Wellington, ! the post boy. 1 cmu t say where he is oil’ to ; but he is gone, and lus successor 1 has cither carried your paper to the , wrong ollico or Just it on the road : I 1 can’t say which ; but I don’t get it very regularly since the wholesale granting of le;ivt; to our stall. Bolero your paper with this letter readies Hawem, I shall be oil' to near Egmoui's base, to a rising city up there, fur on Sunday next a church, or chapel, j or something of the kind is to bo opened. I The invitation states there arc lo be wholesale christenings ; whole families j are to be christened, and I have t;> act as sponsor for L don’t know how many. The proposed godmothers, aunts, and cousins of these youths are reputed to be very fascinating, and I, consequently, anticipate lots of lun • lor that part of tiie country is proverbial fur its huspitaiity. ITS. 1 have just told my better half about my proposed trip, ami she said ; ■‘.Now, Jim. I am going too. I am, and will go if I think it is hlrakspean; who says : *• Teey who have own hope; I Itavo uu\ay clasts f o siiake them. '" Biiglitly altered; but suits the oce;;,- w siuji. y B Juice so . ,i ** Tas> oig '! j:».' ii,e. o hUlo it sun \\ On iha;r a.-d,-. I<> te.o Via. The iiillrj (Ir.V- liltVc I>W-ei !'.jas ,\ j i i ,:■! . ,\r. . " ai That's alter hhake-a-eaiv, too, el /eng way e/em. I did' Hi.- ‘da- :;,t, leo ; pippe ■! e. tie- a :U W;:i ig, ar. ■ r ; :; i ; ; ve: i.re. n die m. - r i.. no Weis ir.'iii i i;vn.,:mj i.nn-'.;, . . and have them in a Le.h’.i.y eon an. on.