WAIPAWA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3199, 29 September 1881, Page 2

WAIPAWA.

(FROM OtJE OWN CORRESPONDENT.) September 28. Political affairs at Waipawa are unusually quiet, no interest, apparently, being taken by the townspeople in the forthcoming election. Neither Mr Ormon'l nor Mr Smith have as yet published an address to the electors. Matters, I suppose, will remain in this quiet state until the writs are issued, and the candidates go " on the stump." I hear that a society of a political nature, with the rather curious title of " G's " and " B's," has been formed here, and that the members intend to support the Liberal candidate. As I have not been initiated into the society, I cannot vouch for the truth of the statement. I understand, however, that its meetings are carried on in rather a free and easy style (long-stemmed pipes and pewters), and not in a manner likely to gain much support for its candidate. The Waipawa Cricket and Rifle Clubs both announce annual general meetings, the former to take place to-morrow (Friday), and the latter on Tuesday evening next. I believe it is the intention of the members of the Cricket Club to play their first match this season on 13th October, on the show ground at Hastings, against a team selected from the Napier C.C. A concert, to raise funds towards purchasing an harmonium for the use of scholars at the district school is, I am informed, to come off on an early date. A number of the pupils are already practising several selected pieces for the occasion, and with the assistance of some of our best-know adult amateurs a really good entertainment is likely to take place. An instrument to aid in the teaching of singing in the school is a want long felt by the master, and it is to be hoped, will soon be supplied. Until a new one is obtained, an old harmonium has been placed at the disposal of the school but judging from the sounds which proceed from it neither the instructor, scholars, nor neighbors are likely to be at all sorry when it returns to the neighborhood from whence it came. A walking match is on the tapis, to take place shortly, two would-be peds, having matched themselves against time to walk from the Empire Hotel, Waipawa, to Scrimgeour's Hotel, Kaikora (about four and a half miles) in fifty minutes, and for which event they have gone into heavy training. On Monday evening last they took a trial spin over the convincing ground, but with very unsatisfactory results (to themselves). In addition to fioishing eonae minutes to the bad, one of the " walkists " was so exhausted with his exertions that, on arriving at home, he was compelled immediately to retire to bed, suffering severely from palpitation, &c. If these athletic gentlemen do not vastly improve on the form at present shown by them, I guess " Daddy " will win bis wager easily,