THE ROTORUA RAILWAY. Threatened Native Obstruction.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2037, 28 July 1885, Page 2

THE ROTORUA RAILWAY. Threatened Native Obstruction.

A conKK>i"o.M>Kxr .it Mouim,\ille informs us that the Njj.itih.un have expressed their determination to pi event Mr Fallon goinp on w itli the pei lu.meiit vv .iy of the line. It sei-nis that the lme at the Waitoa nuiH thiough a native receive, and that when the formation contract was under way, * promise (»» the natives allege) was made by the engineer that the owners should recene full compensation. ThU promise, hovyevei, ha^ not been fulfilled, and the natives now say that nothing more shall be done until themone} is foithcominp. Wjtha view to pivc practical form to their objection, about 1.10 (the number is probably greatly o\a<?gei.itud) of them have congregated at the Waitoa dossing, and with the aid of bullock teams are now building ,i banica^e of log-, across the line, Of com so hiich obatuiction as this is useless, and the deluded natives are only bringing themselves under the opeiation of the criminal law. If they have a just claim for cmipcimtion there is a proper mode of procedure, but it is at all tunes difficult to make Maori- understand the^e thinjri, -^

Fink and Coar.sk Bread.— The results of some interesting analyses published by Dr Wallace, of Glasgow, show in a marked manner the superiority for food put poses of coaise bread over that made of fine flour. In bum, which is the cofusest foiro of ground wheat, there is actually ten times more mineral matter than in the finest kind of flour. More than half of this mineral matter » phosphoric acid, which plays an important part in the formation of bone, and performs other functions ia the human systems ; so that at the lowest estimate, bran is in many times more wholesome and useful of an ai tide of diet than white flour, which is also much more 1 expensive. It is to be regretted that the present tendency among the working classes is to abandon coarse bred aDu oatmeal porridge for the prettier dough made of fine flour. It would be well for all of us if we would consult both our pockets and ourstomacha, and go back to the honest fare of our forefathers. Mr T.S Buckland will sell at Cambridge on Saturday, fruit, forest, and ornamcnt.il trees trom Mr Sharp's nursery. In another column the Huntly butchers publish a price list of meat, R.c., which is to com« in fon.e on and after the Ist August, proi.