WAITAHUNA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 25, 14 October 1887, Page 13

WAITAHUNA.

(From an occasional Correspondent.)

At the last meeting of the Waitahuna Farmers' Club the fee of membership was reduced from 10s to 7s 6d on the motion of Mr. Garden, with a view to increasing their numbers. Ihe date of the annual show was also fixed for the 19th December—Messrs. M'Corkindale, Auld, Garden, Watson, Ryan, Tucker, Corry, M'Ara, and Craig to collect subscribtions.

Quite a sensation wag experienced here on the 4th inst., as the great London Circus passed through on its way to Lawrence, the band playing tbe liveliest of tunes, and the Shetland ponies being a source of unmixed delight to the juveniles. A great many went from here to view the wonders, and the Chinamen, who were there in great numbers, seemed, to judge by their physiognomies, to enjoy the various feats immensely.

The Havelock commonage is still agitating the public mind. The old trustees will not resign office though new ones have been, nominated ; neither will they give an account of their stewardship or in any way comply with the terms of the Act. The position of affairs is most exasperating, and the good people of Waitahuna are therefore much exercised in mind as to the best mode of dealing with men so [perverse that they can neither be led nor driven, so that it appears nothing is left for them but to petition the Governor to redress the grievance.