WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3243, 22 November 1881, Page 2

WAIROA.

(moM our own correspondent.)

November 19,1881

The elections for the County Council, which took place on Wednesday, were keenly contested in the several ridings, and in none more so than Clyde. In this riding the interest taken in the election was unusually great, and not due to party feelings either, but to a creditable desire to see the best men returned. Nearly every ratepayer in the Clyde riding recorded his vote. Can your end of the provincial district, Mr Editor, say as much.

Why the mail man from Napier is always behind his time is one of thoße things "no fellah can understand/ . We never get our mail now with anything like regularity, and it is positively time the authorities endeavored to bring the mail carrier to a sense of his duty to hla employer and a publici The Presbyterian Church bazaar is announced to take place on the 12th of January 1882. A gift auction will be held in MrMayo's paddocks at Orere the next day, 13th.

Judge Heale opened the Native Lands Court at 10 a.m. on Friday, Mr Tapsel, native assessor, Mr Gray, secretary, and Mr J. Carroll, interpreter, assisting. There are 52 new blocks to be investigated, 37 sub-division claims, 138 succession claims, and 4 adjourned cases to be heard. A dispute has arisen as to whether the Court shall be held at Clyde or on the native side of the river. Judge Heale informed the natives that he would Bit at the Court House, and they could sit at Waihirere if they liked. A petition signed by 100 natives is, I hear, to be presented to the Judge on Monday praying to have the Court held on the native side of the river at Waihirere.