WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3029, 11 March 1881, Page 2

WAIROA.

(from our own correspondent.)

March 9, 1881. Our newly.elected Harbor Board met on Tuesday, Messrs Brown, Shaw, Toha, and Williams being present. Mr Shaw was elected chairman, and Mr Williams secretary. The Board did not sit long, and the debating was confined to discussing firstly how a minute-book (cost 3s) was to be procured, and secondly drafting a petition to re presented to Parliament praying that the Wairoa Harbor Board be endowed with land (not particular to 500,000 acres more or less) for the purpose of raising the wind, io order to regulate the sea, by going in for harbor works. The Board will doubtless be guided by Sir John Coode's report when it arrives, whether it adopts a breakwater, or an abortion like that to be seen in Napier. Sir John examined the Wairoa river under difficulties ; it was rough when he arrived off the mouth, so he simply climbed up the mast as high as he thought safe, took a long look at what he could see of the river, and then declared in a most professional manner that there were no difficulties ia the way of making the river mouth navigable at all seasons. Can the Government hesitate a f ter this to endow the Wairoa Harbor Board with every spare acre of Crown land in the country ?

The Assessment Court that was to have sat to-day, before Judge Ormond, is adjourned for a week owing to the Judge's illness, which, however, must have been very sudden, else why was the adjoornment not notified in yesterday's issue of our local organ. This style of adjournment reminds one of the manners and customs in vogue two or three years ago. The gentleman who has been looking at the Crown lands in this and Cook Counties has turned up all right. He had to camp out a good few nights, and has thoroughly explored the whole country.