WAITARA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144711, 21 June 1915, Page 7

WAITARA.

FEOJI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. Juno 21.—Complaints are general of the bad state of the North Road, the Onaoro Hill being reported as very stickly, while Mount Messenger is said to have been seldom if ever worse. Of course nothing more could, ho expected in tho latter case after tho heavy rains of lato and the work that is being done before metalling. Happily, however, there is every prospect that before very long there will be a continuous metal road to the Mokau. Tho National Reserves had arranged to trek to Urenui yesterday, but Captain Johns had a hint from the Urenui Riiie Club that a postponement might bo advisable, as tho roads wore in such a state that tho pleasure of tho trek would bo lost in the trouble of negotiating the Onaero Hill, and tho trip was accordingly postponed. It would ho interesting to know tho mystery that attaches to tho deformed Native boy who gets about tho country discovering treasures that have been hidden underground for many years. Some time ago ho discovered certain trcasnms at Urenui, and quite recently a pilgrimage was made hopper ion way when, accompanied by a number of Natives ami several pakoba of unimpeachable integrity, ho wont to a certain spot which was covered with blackberry. and tapping with his slick told tho diggers to dig there to a depth of four or five feet and they would find what they wanted, a circular stone with a hole in the middle of mystic value, which had been lost for many years, and tin- recovery of which would bring good-luck to the Natives. Sure enough, the stone was found, and the linn state of the earth in which it was buried showed that ft must have been there for a great many years. No doubt the explanation would lie simple if it wero known, for it is not to bo assumed that tho boy’s eyes are ;m X-rays apparatus to enable him to look into the bowels of tho earth.