WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3216, 20 October 1881, Page 2

WAIROA.

(PHOM OUH OWN CORBESPONDENT). October 19, 1881. J The County Council will meet on Tuesday next, 25th instant, for the transaction of business. This, I presume, will be tbe last meeting the present Council will hold. If I were a poet, and could write, I would compose a final cantata, get it set to music, and persuade the councillors assembled to sing it. The members for each riding might with effect sing " When shall we three meet again ? " and tbe chorus, if taken up by the chairman, Winiata Kaihote, and the unemployed laborers, could not fail to have a grand and imposing effect. _fc Tbe first batch of absentee's sections will be sold here on Tuesday next, the 24th instant, at 2 p.m., at Mr George Mayo's auction rooms. It is anticipated that the competition for several of the sections will be very keen, and I am interested to see the sale a success. The County Council deserves every credit for the careful manner in which they have piloted this difficult question to its present stage. There is a sort of fear that the title which the Council will be authorised to grant will not stand against the Crown grant should any of the owners turn up in the future. I fancy the Government is bound to see the Council and the buyers made perfectly safe. It is reported pretty freely that Captain Porter intends to retire from the approaching contest. Such, I am assured by that gentleman's committee, is entirely false. He is determined to fight tbe battle to tne last, and fight it honestly too. He announces in the local paper here that he proposes to visit , the district early in November and address the electors fully in all the townships of the constituency. Public feeling is still running extremely high, and it is not to be wondered at. Mr Allan M'Donald is having rather a hot time of it just now—nis unfortunate "ratting" propensities telling hard against him. The annual meeting of the County Jockey Club will be held on Tuesday next at 2 o'clock. 1 hear that a good meeting is likely to result this year— indeed, if it equals last year it will be very creditable. For the County Council elections the following candidates are now handed about by Dame Rumor: — Clyde Riding—Messrs Shaw (chairman). Flint, J. Powdrell, and Gemmell. Waikaremoana—Maloney, Duff, Brown, Tunks, Couper, Steele, J.P., and T. Caroll. ■_ Mohaka—Messrs Bee, Strachan, Sim, and possibly McKinnon. Mr J. W. Witty is also spoken of for the Clyde Riding, and if he came forward I believe he would be returned easily. At a meeting of the committee of the Presbyterian Church on Tuesday night a vote of thanks was unanimously ;passed to the ladies and gentlemen who took part in the late concerts. On dit that a concert will be held in Napier shortly in aid of the church funds. Mohaka is about to embark in " the concert bizness," as Artemus Ward would say, an entertainment being announced to take place there next week. Dr. Ormond, I hear, has definitely . decided to leave the district for tbe South.