WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3625, 23 February 1883, Page 3

WAIROA.

fFKOjr OUIS OWN COHEKSFOXUEXT. ] February 19, ISB3. Unlike Sir Boyle Roche's famous bird "your own" has this -week found it impossible to be in two places at once, hence my not .sending you an abstract of the business dore at the late County Council meeting. Mr Penty, who has been . appointed lay reader for" tliis district by the Bishop of "Wiiiapu, arrived from Napier lust week, and has already commenced his duties. The residents here who remember the sad details of the Mohaka and Poverty Bay massacres have given vent to their feelings in no measured, language regarding the pardoning of Te Kooti. Most people could ■understand a pardon being extended to Rewi or Tawhiao for political offences, since Mr Bryco might plead "prospective favors " as an excuse, but in the case of Te Kooti it is qxiite different. Not only could he give us no equivalent for a pardon, but he "never had any prestige or following beyond what his career of rapine and murder gave him. That " Honest John Bryce" should stoop so low as to shake hands with tliis double-dyed scoundrel is evidence enough that the Cabinet is tottering. No more may the Whitakcr and Co. Ministry boast of their purity, since it has pardoned the monster who in cold blood treacherously murdered helpless women and innocent children—ball; this expresses my deep disgust.

The following amounts have been received by the Wairoa County libraries out of the £GOOO grant for public libraries : — Clyde, £39 2s 7d ; Frasertown, £17 13a Id: Mohaka, £13. I had the pleasure of A'isiting Mr J. Piper's hop plantation last week, and I am glad to say the outlook is very good. In the old portion of the plantation the hops are all that could be desired ; the fourteen foot poles are covered up to the top with a

spendid head of hops, averaging one bushel each. He expects to get thi.-j year about 3,500 bushels of hops. The Catholics are going to hold a Fancy Fair next New Year's Day in aid of the church building liquidation fund. They evidently believe in taking old Father Time by the forelock. Everybody seems to forget that "the comet" is to return next October and frizzle up everything. At the County Council meeting the following business "was transacted?: —Dog registrars were allowed Is 6d for all nativeowned dogs registered. Constable G. wii»"jtpi>ointe<i registrar forWaikaremoan'a. Grant of £10 voted for >.npier Hospital. It was decided, on a division, not to elect a representative on the Napier Harbor Board, as a protest against the Wairoa district being included in the rating area for the Napier harbor loan. Subsidy of £5 voted for Waikari ferry. It was decided to call for tenders for the groin at Mohaka. The Survey Department Avill be asked to survey the beach road, Mohaka. Cr, McLean gave notice to move next meeting, " that the attention of Government be drawn to the want of reserves for travelling stock along the road known as Rochfort's line, and also the WairoaGisborne road with the view of extending the j>owcrs of Councils over such reserves." The following reductions in salaries, etc.._ were made:—Tangoio ferry, £5 instead of £10; Waihua and" Opoiti ferries, nil; Waikare ferry, £o instead of £10 ; housekeeper, £8 instead of £10; inspector of slaughteryards, £5 instead of .€10; clerk, £110 instead of £175: road overseer, £120 instead of £12.5, with travelling allowance of £30 if any grant was obtained under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act, ISB2 : Napier Hospital, £-10 instead of .675. Altogether the reductions amount to .£B7. Says the Guardian: —The erection of tho new flour mill at Hikawai is being carried out satisfactorily by Messrs MeMumiy and Brown. The building—the frame of which is now up—stands on an elevated site on the right bank of the Hikawai creek a little bclow'whero tho old track crosses above the waterfall. Mr McMurray anticipates that the mill will be ready for work in the course of two or three months. We trust the local settlers will now go in for wheat growing on a more extensive scale than hitherto. Judging from the past Wairoa land is well adapted for the growth of this cereal." The Mechanics' Institute is almost finished. The Government have given enough of notice this time for tho Wairoa-Gisbornc road. Tenders for three sections close on March 10th.