WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3001, 7 February 1881, Page 3

WAIROA.

(fHOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT"). February 5, 1881. My well and tank have both run dry, and the intense heat prevailing has compelled me to live on Swan's beer as being the next cheapest beverage. Under these Circumstances, the Good Templars should assist us to sink the artesian well we are always talking about. I mean to write to watery Sir William on the subject. Hot weather and bad water are productive of fever; we have experienced this before, and found the doctor quite as fatal as the disease. In obedience to notice, a number of mothers brought their olive branches on "Wednesday last to be vaccinated. Some bad come from a considerable distance, and the day wa9 a scorcher. The public vaccinator, however, had only lymph enough to do about ten youngsters, the remaining thirty having to go home undone. The mothers used less bad language than tbe occasion and heat warranted, but will probably not attend bo punctually again. We aro getting on though in this line of business, as no less than five children have been successfully vaccinated in the last nine months.

The Court House is now close to its new site. The contractors finding screwjacks a slow method of moving it along, hit on the happy plan of a windlass and double-block —bolting the windlass on to the Court House floor, and anchoring a block a good distance along the road, the building, being on rollers, moved along rapidly. The river being low, and the water warm, a number of natives are engaged in raising large trees from the bottom. At low water a man dives down with a piece of wire, passes it under the log and over a huge canoe ; there are three or four of these lashings as required. Everything is hauled taut, and the tide rising up comes the log, which is then floated to the side of the river, and at low water cross-cut up into suitable lengths. A Nuhaka native has rescued his horse out of the North Clyde pound, and ridden away on him, most likely to the Mahia, a place where we know from experience pound-breakers can reside with impunity. Maoris object to pay fees of any kind, and if an attempt he made to collect the dog tax from them, Major Atkinson will have to part with some of his merry men from Taranaki aud send them to be stationed here. If Taranaki is not the capital of the colony, most of the colony's capital is spent there. There was a pic-nic yesterday at Huramua, and fully half the people in the,Wairoa turned out to enjoy themselves, which they succeeded in doing thoroughly. Some rode, some drove, and others went iv boats and canoes. All returned home tibout9 p.m., this time too tired to have the usual dance.