ORMONDVILLE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3223, 28 October 1881, Page 3

ORMONDVILLE.

(FBOM OT7B OWTf CORBESPOITOBaiT.) October 29, 1881. Both candidates for County honors -*""" have addressed the ratepayers at Norsewood and Ormondville, with the result tbat Mr Wilding received a vote of confidence atNorsflwood, and Mr McGreevy at Ormondville. Each candidate has made a personal canvass, and if promises are to he relied on both will head the poll. It appears, however, we are to have a third candidate in Mr A. Olsen, a local man, who has consented to stand, and who has a large amonnt of support promised. The removal of the hotel from Kopua to Makatoku is causing a deal of comment, and public feeling is very much against it. Two petitions largely signed have been sent in against it, and should they not be successful at present, in preventing the transfer, it will have tbe effect of i arousing tbe public at the election of the -Licensing Bench, with a view of having their wishes carried. A meeting is called fpr f an early date at Norsewood for the purpose of selecting five candidates for the Licensing Bench in this district, and I think the matter mentioned above will do more to help tie election of local option men than all the Templars and Bechabites influence put together. Great complaints are made against the Railway Department for not keeping the Bash stations supplied with trucks, especially at Eirtb's siding. Bequests for trucks have been sent, but no response. ,It may be that there are not enough .trucks for the traffic, and, if this be so, a farther supply should be obtained. I hear that the persons interested are going to make a complaint direct to the office y in Wellington. . The weather has been very severe the last few days, heavy hail storms, continued rain, and bard frosts. Educational matters appear to be going on more smoothly here now. Mr Rogers and his assistant, Miss Parsons, are giving great satisfaction. Mrs Thompson, of the Makatoku school, has resigned, to r take effect at the Christmas vacation. The Noreewood school was the scene of 9 disorderly row last Friday. One Holm • constituted himself the champion of a few discontented ones, and proceeded to the echool to inflict chastisement on the head teacher, but after pulling off hie coat, and using some threats and obscene language, he departed. The teacher very properly laid an information against Holm, and be was sent to Mr Miller's s retreat for fourteen days to reflect on his conduct. ■■■■■SWSB^MMMWM«M"*^MSWaWSBMMIjII