WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3797, 15 September 1883, Page 3

WAIROA.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] September 11, 1833. Me tho Town Board that is to be : it is a significant fact that tho Mahia run alone pays .£lO more in rates than the proposed town district. Tho cricket season will be opened hero on

Saturday by a match, Juniors v. Seniors. Mr G. B. Flint, who has always proved himself a most energetic .secretary, lias been elected to that arduous post this season, .so wo will not lack matches of one kind or another. It is reported that Mr R. J. Dcighton, of this place, has been granted a small yearly pension by the Government for services rendered in connection with the capture of the notorious Te Rauporatia in the early clays of the colony, and for other services performed voluntarily in those troublesome times. Mr Deighton has been paralysed now for over fifteen years, and this recognition of his public services must be to him in his declining years a matter of no little satisfaction, as it will be a considerable help. Sir Gcorge.Groy presented the petition, and supported the allegations made. The Arcadian quietness of the Mahia was broken in upon last Thursday (not unpleasantly however) by a marriage—an event which has not taken place there for years. The lady was a daughter of Mr Richard Pilson, North Clyde, and "the happy man" one of the hands on Mr Walker's run. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. Lambert, of Wairoa, and the breakfast was laid at Mr Fleming's residence. Mrs Fleming herself spared neither time nor trouble to render the affair a success, which it undoubtedly was. Tlio Clyde Total Abstinence Society held Cns usual fortnightly meeting on Thursday last, a largo number of members being present, bad weather notwithstanding. The rules of tho Bluo Ribbon Army were submitted to the meeting, and directed to be discussed at the next gathering. At the quarterly licensing- meeting last Wednesday Mr G. B. Flint was elected chairman, vice Mr Shaw resigned. The only business transacted was a transfer of the Tarawera Hotel license from D. Falvy .to T. Brill. Mr W. Moloney's] next sale of land, stock, &c, at Frasertown will be held on the 29th instant. It seems very anomalous that it should cost only £10 for an auctioneer's license at Frasertown, and as much as £10 at Clyde. At tho latter place one might hope to bo fairly successful with a sale, •whereas the same cannot bo said of Frasertown, the population being scanty and scattered. I hear that Mr Nairn, of Pakowhai, has made an addition of five acres to his hop garden this year, besides sending away a quantity of "sets" toother districts. At £10 15s per cwt. in London hops should pay well, and will, no doubt, when English brewers and others overcome the insane prejudices they hold with regard to colonial hops, and import from Australasia in pre- *• ferenco to foreign countries. I may remark en passant that tho time is not far distant when it shall bo our proudest boast that England takes her wheat, wool, moat, hops, etc., from us instead of foreigners. Are we not a . part of that great Empire on which tho Sun never gets, and should not British consumers deal wiYh us—their kin—in preference to any foreign nation — catena paribus ? Tho success of New Zealand's frozen meat in London is one very encouraging fact, which should stimulate tho colonist to further exertions in the matter of developing a large export trade in meat, dairy produce, and fruit. We are having some rather severe weather just now, hail, rain, and wind being the order of both day and night. Fortunately the fruit trees are not yet in blossom, or in truth we should have but a sorry chance of a crop. As it is the season is advancing very slowly, and agricultural work ditto. The local talent (literary and debating) appears to be exhausted, the usual fortnightly debates at the Mechanics' Institute having, for tho time being, fallen through. This is much to bo regretted, as the public attended the meetings well, whatever they moy have thought of the talent displayed. Tho fact is: Everything of tho sort here is left in the hands of a few—or gravitates into the small circle—and when the talent of the few is exhausted a collapse occurs. There aro plenty of good subjects that could bo taken up—Free Trade v. Protection, Capital and Labor, Women's Rights, Colonial Federation, Land Nationalisation, Cereals v. Wool, and so on. Where arc all OVIV local political economists ? Thero was quite a flutter among tho juveniles at the district school last week, one of them having obtained possession of a one pound note by some means or other. The note was changed and most of it inTCfctcd in things dear to the juvenile palate before the teacher got wind of the affair. The Wairoa district school is to be examined on or about the 27 th instant. September 13. '' One man in his time plays many parts '' —at least so saith the immortal Shakespeare. Mr A. L. D. Fraser (late of Wairoa, as master of the Frasertown school) is now an auctioneer and commission agent in Gisbome in conjunction with a Mr Wyllic. I urn informed that very few tenders were sent in for the Ruakiture road, and of these none wore accepted, all being deemed too high. _ Tho annual meeting of tho Kapu Library Committee was held on Saturday, Bth instant. Tho receipts amount to £49 odd, and the expenditure account shows a balanco of £30 in hand—not bad for a small district. It is to be hoped that this amount will be invested in books instead of a luxury that coidd well be dispensed with at Frasertown—viz., a Mechanics' Institute. On dit that it is proposed to erect (in Institute at Mohaka ! What next ? I hear that the promoters of the Frasertown Church of England building fund have made a last appeal to the wealthy churchmen of Hawke's Bay, and the institutions which generally subsidise tho erection of churches. lam rather astonished that nothing has been voted towards the out of the Nairn Fund, eosidering the'active part Mrs Nairn, of Pakowhai, is taking in the canvass on bohalf of the JTrasortown church.

It looks as if the popular indignation had killed tho Wairoa correspondent of the Observer. We hear nothing noAV from tho scurrilous scribe, and tho place is all the happier in consequence. The FrasertoAvn school building is rapidly approaching competition, and it is expected to bo finished by the 27th instant. The new building will be opened by a concert.