TE AWAMUTU. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1445, 6 October 1881, Page 2

TE AWAMUTU. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

When Rumour with her thousand tongues is particularly busy, although not a soul knows which tongue is the particular one that is whispering, there is tolerably sure to be a certain per centage of fact in the utterances, and if one doesn't take shape another will. So as we hear of copper in Kakapuke let us hope it is to take a definite shape, and be the moflfer of commercial enterprises with 75 per cent, of interest per annum, and that the hope is not by any means the wildest evei hatched, is the feeling of all who know that there is positively copper in Kakapuke. That Kawhia is one of the grandest harbours in New Zealand, and that there will be the site of perhaps the principal city of the Colony, and that it must shortly be opened, and become the centre of the Waikato districts, and a source of new life and enterprise to many infant settlement< that have hardly began to show their vitality yet, is by no means a wild idea to men of the soberest business capacity, and that keen scented individuals of the shark tribe have been carefully smelling already around the neighbourhood may be looked upon as tolerably certain. That iron^ and coal, and petroleum will not be long in finding workers along the coast may be a safe speculation without any nnusaal length of head, and that the Waipa is intended by nature to be one of New Zealand's centres of industry is a fact that would require an unuBa!ly dense witted party not to Bee it. Tawhiao's New Settlement, One of the tieitors from this district to Tawhiao at Hikurangi deaoribes the site selected for the new settlement of His Maori Majesty as not two miles from Alexandra, on the west bank of the Waipa, and on a fine plain of more than a thousand aores, and heard that settlements will be formed along the Waipa and Funiu rivers. The king is still at Kopua, to which place he walked on foot from Hikurangi, he and Eeyri preferring that mode of progress to riding. The Coming Elections. The electors are wondering what has become of the candidates for the coming tussle, and as'Ufijor Jackson has been twice through the district and boasts of having formed * strong committee in Hamilton, people begin to think it almost time, for the. supporters of the present most efficient member to pronounce their < opinions.