WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3178, 5 September 1881, Page 2

WAIROA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) August 30, 1881. I see ray worthy brother of the quill, the local correspondent of your morning contemporary, has something to say re vaccination, and the probabilities should small-pox reach this colony. There are, lam sure, quite a large number of parents whose children have never been vaccinated once. These should be aroused to a sense of their duty, and the Government should provide them with the needful facilities.

My information with reference to the projected alterations in the furnishing of our Court House i?, I am sorry to hear, not quite correct; that is, I am told so. My knowledge was derived from a dirty scrap of paper I picked up in the street, on which was drawa the interior of tbe Court House, as it should be. Well, all I can say is that I am sorry to hear the news i 3 not true, for surely these little improvements are necessary. Captain Preece, by removing the Court House into the central site it now occupies, has done a great deal of good, and I hope he may see his way to urge these additional ones. The arrangements for the erection of a Roman Catholic Church in this township are progressing apart. The members of that body now possess an excellent site (half-acre) in Queen-street, besides which the building fund is not far short of £200, of which -£140 is represented by cash in bank, the balance being promised The plans are now in course of preparation, and when ready will be submitted to the proper authorities, and a commencement made as soon as possible. If I were a footballer no doubt I could appreciate the game as it Bhould be, and learn to prefer being wet to the skin aud rolled in semi-solid mud and water, yclept " muck " to delight in having my clothes torn off my body by rude hands, and my otherwise handsome person so disfigured that my maternal relative 1 herself would hardly know me. As I cannot see the point of doing any of these things, I was not present at the football match last Saturday. After raining the whole of Thursday and Friday you can imagine the state of the ground. Nevertheless the footballers report having a " splendid game of it." All I can say is that I fail to see the point of the argument. All at once we have been converted from grave to gay. After enduring the winter without our usual entertainments, dances, &c, we are now well up in that line. On Friday we are to have a magic lantern exhibition, on the following Wednesday a sacred concert, on Thursday a select dance in aid of a local institution, on Friday a tea meeting at Frasertowu, and besides these two other entertainments are on the tapis. September 3, 1881. The weather for the last week has/ been everything that could be desired. II write this lest you should imagine by toy'

silence we have, been enjoying the miseries of a downpour. "Beautiful spring," of which our novel writers rave and poets sing, has made its appearance once more, and the country, always green, seems springing into still newer life and freshness of verdure. At a meeting held in the County Hall last night a cricket club waa formed under tbe name of " The Wairoa Cricket Club." Mr T. Powdrell was elected president* and Mr John Hunter Brown (Whakahi) vice-president, E. C. W. Porter secretary and treasury, and Rev. J. Hill captain. The usual committees were appointed, and initiatory resolutions passed. A tea-meeting is to be given to members and friends of tbe Church of England at Frasertown on Friday next. After the tea the election of a committee will be proceeded with, and a collection made to assist the church funds. I hear that the collectors for the building fund have done very fairly so far, about £25 having been collected. The decision of the County Council to sell by public auction all the sections of land in this district at present in default of rates has been followed up by action. In this morning's Guardian the County Chairman notifies that the first sale will taltf place on the 24th of October. The area of land to be offered amounts to a little ovf-r 255 acres.

Business does not seem to be over brisk just at present, though I do not think we are singular in this respect. An improvement is, however, looked for during the coming year. A great deal of land has been taken up in the vicinity of the Waiau during tbe past winter, and some new blood and capital introduced into the district, so that it is only reasonsable to hope for an improvement. The construction of the Wairoa-Gisborne road, if accomplished this year, will be another means to the same end, and ia any case do immense good by opening up the Gountry for settlement.