TOKO.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 200, 17 October 1900, Page 2

TOKO.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The town of Toko is threatened with a boom. The Hon. R. J, Seddon says boom means bust. Boom is Yankee slang; we don't use slang in Toko, at least in the Debating Society. Digressions and interpolations and parenthesis are all bad, either in speaking or writing; they throw you oft' the track. I find the best way is to go straight ahead, but when a person begins to write about the boom they naturally get flurried, No one has so far seen the boom, but we all hope to see it when it does come. Of course, we all knew that it was only a question of waiting, and when the Daily News arrived with the Public Works Statement our wise men said the time had come, for there was a sum of money for nearly every back road - in the district. £BOOO for the good old muddy East Road, and .£IO,OOO for the light railway. Ten minutes after the arrival ,f tho News, a very tall man;was seen executing a pas da sed in the backyard of the hotel; A Scotchman, who was passing, ' said it was a Highland Fling, Old Alex., who has been in many lands, said it was really the Carmagnoles, with a soupcon of the can-can thrown in, and betokened joy. Roty Reed beseeched all hands to come out and sing the Marselaise, but our town pessimist said perhaps the Government would not spend the money this year at all. This was a slight damper, but we all know if the railway is made it must come through Toko, and, being work and money and business, and this on the top of our calves, and our cows, an 1 our butter, and our fungus, and our honey, and our timber, and our sheep, and our wool, and our seed, and our arass, and our climate. Boom ! Boom!!

pittas, t*nu vui. uuuiuuu. .uuuLu : .uuum : : *• Bust!!! '° School matters have come to an acute • s stage here, and a moetiug is to bo held le in the Hall on next S tturday evening l " to consider the remedy. The school-is e not in a central position, being a m : le " and a-half on the east side of the town. Ie To make this worse, tho land at that n side is hold in blocks, and from P Howe's Mill to tho Cowern Road, about ; " seven miles, there is not one child going s - to school that is on that side of the ,u road, and on tho other side of the road a from Kennedy's farm to Cowen Road, » here is only three. On the west side of the sehcol, the land is in dairy e holdings of small size, and mostof the children come from that end, the actual e number being fourteen children near G the school and sixty-six from the other '1 end. Tho position has becomo unbearable, and the parents are going to make s a determined ell'ort to get tho school in ' the township, where it should have 11 been from the firs^. 0 Mr. Reed has built a fine new dining- " room, which is to he opened wi'h a ' smoke concert. Mr. B. Hewer is buildB ing large additions to his stablo, so that s the place is still growing. The Rye * Brothers are putting up a largo house 1 on their farm. The contract has been ■ secured by Reed and Tong. 3 The one unpleasant item of news I ■ have to chronicle is the death, on the 1 6th, of Mr. James Robinson, benchman ■* at Cluett's sawmill. He had been 1 suffering from an effection of the lungs I for some time. He was buried in * Stratford Cemetery on the 9th. The 3 decoased was much respected, and he 1 leaves a wife and two children.. The weather has boon vorv bad, rain--1 ing from every point of the compass, >' and outside work has beon almost at a 1 standstill.