WAIPAWA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3113, 20 June 1881, Page 3

WAIPAWA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) June 18, 1881.

The Kaikora concert in aid of temporary premises for the public school was held in the railway goods shed on Friday night, and it was throughout a genuine success, and a great credit to all concerned. The audience was one of the largest and most appreciative ever assembled together in the township, in fact ten minutes before the performance commenced not a front seat was procurable. The programme had to be slightly altered, through the unavoidable absence of Messrs Monteith, Baker, and Harding, but as it was originally rather long, omissions were not noticed as much as they otherwise would have been. The singing of all the performers, more especially Miss Boyle and Mrs Ingleton, and Messrs Gilpin, Edwards, and Murton, was particularly good, the majority of them receiving well-deserved tncores. The amusing part of the evening's entertainment was in the hands of Messrs W. F. Wilson and A. Fraser, the former contributing a most laughable recitation, and the latter giving several of his comic songs in his best style ; both gentlemen received recalls. I must not forget to mention that great praise is due to Miss Miller and Mr Flood for the very finished manner in which they officiated at the piano. Immediately after the concert the room was cleared and dancing commenced and was kept till about 4 this morning. Shakespeare wrote: — " Who steals my purse ster. 1 "" trash : 'Twag mine, tisMs, and has been slave to thou?mds. But he who fl'ches from me my good name robs me ot that which, not enriching him, makes me poor indeed." I don't think the Herald's "own" Could have thought of this quotation before he wrote his last effusion, or he v would not have made use of such uncalled for remarks in refereuce to the burial of the late John White ; in fact his remarks from beginning to end vvere nothing but a monster falsehood, and what is almost worse, a base calumny upon the clergymen of this district. I have made enquiries, and find that immediately after the inquest the Rev. J. C. Eccles, of St. Peter's took the superintendency of the burial in hand ; he personally paid several visits to the cemetery, going to considerable trouble in picking out a suitable spot for the interment, and when the body was consigned to its last resting place reading the usual service over the remains. Instead of a " rough deal box 1 ' I learn the coffin was of heart of totara, one inch thick, carefully made, and though not elaborately ornamented, was far from plain. When a clergyman acts the good Samaritan like Mr Eccles did on this occasion, I think it is very hard such misrepresentations should ever be allowed to appear in print, and I am sorry to say this is not the only occasion on which I have noticed newspapers circulating in this district insinuating in anything but complimentary terms of the clergy working in our midst. I hope the Herald's " own " will see his error, and make tbe only reparation in his power, viz., first apologising, and on another occasion learning the facts of a case before writing anything that may injure another's reputation. On dit. There is to be a football match here next Saturday, between the local "boys" and the Napier Club. If the match does take place our club will be grievously disappointed if they do not score a win, as they intend straining every sinew to carry all before them this season.