WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3580, 2 January 1883, Page 2

WAIROA.

[from our own correspondent.] December 30, 1882. If it were not quite selfish I could almost wish that the report re informality of applications under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act were true. Such would have the effect of improving our ohanco of having the full amount applied for by AVairoa allocated. The apj>lications— amounting to £7074 18s (3d—were posted in j due time to the Government. fl Our councillors are getting somewhatV careless of late, namely, they fail to turn up at meetings at the proper time, and sometimes not at all. A meeting was called for AVednesday last for a special purpose, but only the chairman and two others, Messrs Shaw and Moloney, put in an appearance. Mr H. McLean (the newly elected member for Mohaka) was not in attendance, and Messrs Strachan, Sim, Carroll, and Couper were also absent. Ono would imagine that when gentlemen permit themselves to become the chosen of the people they would not hinder the public business by absenting themselves from meetings. In connection with the fires at Turin. % last week, the particulars of which you received by telegraph, I may mention an affecting incident which took place at the Hurumua fire. Mr Carroll's favorite dog was chained to a tree within ten feet of the burning building : in the excitement of the time the poor thing was forgotten till the flames enveloped it, and its howling was heard a long distance off till it succumbed. Mr Thorpe's loss is stated to be £250. The ~ origin of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to have been caused by a match carelessly dropped in the hay-loft. The fire at Mr Carroll's is attributed to a spark from the chimney. His loss is estimated at £200. Mr Carroll was about to insure tho • premises on Saturday last, but could not then find the insurance agent, and he let it wait a few days longer. In the meantime the place was burned down. Mr J. H. Aislabic, late of this place, has. in conjunction with Mr R. R. Curtis, late of the Marmuaru (AA'airoa), purchased Mr Allan McDonald property at AVaerenga-a-hiksi, known as the Mission Station, for £3000. At the public works committee meeting of the Council on AVednesday, T. Hamshar was re-appointed lessee of the AVaihua ferry. For the Opoiti ferry no tender was accepted. The following maintenance contracts were let:—Tongoio to Mohakii, Goodall, £90, accepted ; the following- were declined—J. Anderson, £115; T. Ring, £110. AVairoa to Mangatawa—J. Clifford, £54 10s, accepted: Isaac Kent, £70, declined. A tariff of ten shillings per thousand has been now fixed as the rate payable at the AVaihua and Opoiti ferries for sheep. This is a reduction of £3 13s id per thousand for slice]) at the Opoiti ferry, and will prove a great boon to drivers. The concert at Mohaka on Boxing night, in aid of the local library, was a great success, the proceeds amounting to £9. As your Mohaka correspondent lias probably sent you an account of the races I will not do so, suffice it to say that my tips were both unfortunate, Taylor's Tun Whiftler beating Komiti Maori in the Mohaka Stakes, and Rangitikei coining in third for the hurdles. Better luck next time.