WAITAHUNA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 22, 27 February 1891, Page 15

WAITAHUNA.

February 23. Harvesting has now become general the weather is very hut, the threshing of grass seed going on with favourable results. The application of Mr. John Scott, farmer, Waituhuna, to occupy a portion of the mining reserve was refused, the cisc created considerable interest, the miners to a man protesting against the infringement of their rights and but for their prompt and united action the issue might have been very different. Formerly applications of the kind had been refused wiihout a hearing but in this instance the case was fully gone into and as I have said but for the determined action taken the issue was doubtful. The miners are of course jubilant over the result, though in the present state of the act the same expense and trouble may be put upon them at any moment. The mining area in Waithuna though apparently much coveted is not large, every acre of it is required for its legitimate purpose, and it is a great hardship to the miners to be obliged to go to so much expense in order »o return it. It is to be hoped that this will be the end of similar applications. The addition to the church is now fiaished and the comfort and improvement very noticeable. More than a dozen reapers and binders have arrived at Wai ahuna Railway Station this season for different parts of the district, it is presumably a sign of the times but one affording rather a grim outlook for the working man, for whom the harvest will soon be of little benefit in this as in many other parts.