HASTINGS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3906, 26 January 1884, Page 2

HASTINGS.

fFKOJI OTJIS OWN COBEESPONDENT.I Tho Town Board election is the chief topic of conversation now. A requisition has been got up and numerously signed by tho electors calling upon tho candidates to express their views on tho platform bofore the day of election. The electors are determined, and. properly so, not to vote for anyone unless they know his ideas upon tho subjects that are likely to como before the Board to bo legislated upon. From all I can hero I beliove next Wednesday, tho night before the election, will be the time chosen for the candidates to address tho electors. One of our sporting settlers has got up a consultation upon the affair, 50 percent going to the candidato who polls most votes, 30 to tho second, and 20 to the third. Mr R. Wellwood, of Maxwell Lea, has purchased from Mr J. N. Williams all that block of land between the Ngaruroro river and tho drain, and bounded on the wost by the Maraekakaho road, containing about 240 acres. Tho prico paid, I believe, was £38 10s per acre. The rest of tho block of land, I hear, has been withdrawn from sale for tho present. Tho crops about here have suffered much from the late winds, most of them having been laid nearly flat on tho ground, an d a deal of tho grain, where the crops have been ripe, shed. Mr S. Scruby, manager of tho Longlands estate; has imported a clover thrasher and ■cleaning machine. This, I believe, is tho first one that has ever been imported to the colonies. Our paddocks are full of clover, nnd tho:.clover full of seed, and it has often been remarked what a pity it was to see it all go to waste for the want of proper appliances for saving it, when wo had to buy what clover seed we required from England, but no one before this seemed to have enterprise enough to import one of these machines. It is to bo hoped that Mr Scniby's venture will turn out a successful one, for his own sako as well as for that of tho district, as it will bo the moans of keeping a deal of money in tho place, and perhaps also add to the list of our exports.