OPOTIKI.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 129, 26 November 1873, Page 3

OPOTIKI.

(i'RO.U O!■ it OV.'X L'OUULHI , O.V|)(:,.NT.) November 15. Thb dec! urn of ri‘pre;r;i! j 1 ivr for the i'rovincial H.outi‘v‘U ijx Ae ■ 1.. 1 -o; iLt ui .-K place to-day, a,od wus keenly com t-s: ed by the opposing candidate.-* — Mcs-rs \V nlimu Kiel y and (>, 'U,oo. 1 <•. As Lit. the eh ctum fur tue Oup'o ins endcncy, the walls of the public buddings were decorated with posters in h >i!i b.n-ii-*. aon .iiion, and ut an early hour ( ivo i■■ eor.i! i-i i carts, one vvdn i‘-i team lifirno-aed tandem fashion, were tearing about rhe place gu.-hcriiig up the (dir. (fell Jen., aud the township qoiekiy presented u scone of lively ctcit-emeut, uou-h vv, is kept i:p w.thouf. abatement throughout the uay. Tile clldrU of the opposing p,u t ie-T ws ro luost amusing. As each fVosh batch of voters arrived they wore seized upon on the instant by one parly or t in other, and so notiiues hv both, an i i.-o.txcd and budgeted until they burly bolted into the p dii eg _ place aud “ecor led at, onvu to e-i ’.pc the ii i fl;; tion, Ino amount, of energy and p -mcvcrauce displayed by the constituents of both b,d,,s was not only praiseworthy, but in somo instances very urn using. Fleas of friendship and uil sorts oi unknown obligations were urged ; and those confounded FakeUa-iiaoris musT put in theiroars and take a mean ad vantage of their know-b-dge of t ho language in pnrsua So the natives Uj their views. Then our lively cricket, the beiunun, added his quota to the d iv’s fun by r. sf.t.g in stentorian tones that ‘even bodV 15 L " ud '- iv f'-T “the rigid. in ;h" n .

)’^ S| '■ Kelly for ; In the evening it nee-nine generally known tnat the jnnjwrlfv of v. lei- Ml- William Kehv wis dd. it‘being— Moony, Kelly, 71; although the poll w« i n ° . * ljL ' > *t*'i: i 1! y litvlarcd, as tho ivfurns Imd not ! j‘‘ 1 *"■'* hM.u \\ hakuimu?. The* Whakatane poll, : itH un ‘ mil seven for Mr r "' l :l V * h ' r Ml ’ M-»dy, making Mi- K>Uv ; '-A 1 . *v ! ■ l, ‘ r •'l'-’txly, viz.: Kelly", : ’ '’■ '■'■•■h • •*•*. i*l IV wa« wound up with H : ! , ' v ' ' o..(ivivi>di«y, and without, eii'.'U'i u oc ur’i • nee or ,-e -id. ;-i. ,r xvii- - . 'v'vi'mbit Ith : .or M imam IV- :y >ow let- h. (ho Fannv ,v,,i harbour tin* uun-niu- (com Whakatam , whe-e she was recently '*'' V^^ ***- .tTiu.-v her ox chi* Siv, h lor the Opotiki i«- V. and she will ho H -real boon to us here, for, mill mu- well-tried ami : rod worthy friend Captain Halier, -we mar he sure of tjuieU nod regular trips io and. from Aueliiai-d, and of am., her highly important and oiu-n neglected particular — comfort, and kindly a: ten! ion to lady passengers, for whieh Captain ICi.er has alwuvs been highly eCeemed. Tho Fanny Kelly is a loti-, cleanly-built schooner i.ioi l .-!, <d ii-ld draught and considerable carrying Cap ieity. She is ketch-rigged, and has every p! iMiii.-,' of a pmai t and seaworthy vessel. Sho eredit. upon her builders—Messrs \vh to Ihoi h-ers, of Mereury B iy. The Fanny J|,>vv loaning whale uii, and will them psaii ecd t-» Auckland direct. November 17. ( •• 11 T> ’d was held at. Omamunitu to-day on the \ur.\\ of a native child, daughter of Matin N.iho-ia, who was drowned in a creek near that. _ I uei-hild, it appears, hadsM myed away from lls lather, who was at work, and had accidental!V hilU'.i into the water, where it was found some ! uno alto-w.u-ds quite dead. A verdict of “ Acciacutuliy tlruwnca " was returned Accordingly. November 20. i he body of the unfortunate man Butter has at last, been Imm.l by some native woolen, who wore ;yn heviiiy iirewood on mo banks of tho river. It been earned some distance ashore by tho iV.-sh, »mi was hidden by tho vviwi, Captain Cumin u -d a party o! the Constabulary imiuodivliii.tf.ly- proceeded in n whaleboat, and brought the body bock with them.

.Altuw mo to correct an error which occurs in Hiv letter in jour iinnresum of Use 12 th instant. ‘j 1 ror-i it u( Mr William Kelly's speech to the doctor*, tho paragraph, “Ho had always ilone !us ui-umst for the into rests of this place, am,! for the town of Ouehunga, which ho had the honour to represent,” should bo “ for this place and for the Pensioner .Settlements, which ht) had tins honour to represent,.*'’