WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4138, 27 October 1884, Page 4

WAIROA.

ftmOM OUR OWN COEItESrONDEXT.] A General meeting of the Jockey Club was held on last. It was decided to hold the annual meeting on the lust Thursday in January, and the lbbl TOoo-rammo was adopted for the forthcoming ■meetiu". It was also decided that at the coming races the hack flat race and hack hurdle's should bo handicaps, maximum weights, lOst and list respectively. Mr A. "Fraser was elected .secretary, Mr J. \V. Sargissou clerk of the scales; the other officers, stewards, etc., were re-elected. Wairoa people often talk about the want of local industries, but when they can get things in the' district they very often send \wav to Napier for them. Thus, last winter a settler told mo he could not sell his potatoes (a very good sample too) at any urice and yet the steamers that week brought in several tons of potatoes. Anot hev instance occurred the other day. Mr , D Cltinie, baker, turned out a quantity of : f'incv biscuits and advertised them at a low price and still the local storekeepers import biscuits not one. whit bitter or cheaper. ■ Several people are very effusive just now iv their praises of Mr Locke for tho energy he has displayed in pressing on the attention. of the Government the many and varied: wants of the East Coast'in. general, and Wairoa in particular. When one comes to : think that some of these very people did "their little all" to keep Mr Locke out of, tho House we can appreciate at its true , worth their fulsome adulation If .certain uoomo had their: way, and Mr V. L. Eees ; were returned, what a back seat the East; Coast would have had to be sure ! Ho would, no doubt, be found somewhere m the van of ; Sir 'George Grey's diminished phalaux— powerless to aid us. It is along time since the East Coast had so much attention paid ; to it For this tho electors may: thank themselves and Mr Locke, the former for tho wisdom of their choice, and the latter, for sofaithfully carrying out his promises. '■• The Warroa Harbor Board held a special meeting on Friday, 17th inst. A memorandum in reply to the auditor's strictures on the financing of the Board was brought in, and adopted. It is a very fair and ' reasonable statement-hot on tho auditor thoivh—for ifc toll 3 him that lf he had audited the accounts of the Board when in W-iiroa on a certain occasion he would have found out the first defalcation _(a trilling one) and so have prevented heavier pecuk- ±- , __Mr W 1 , . Shaw handed m his Sanation as hon. senary, which was The Board decided to determine tL present snagging and blasting contract, Ind to notify the fact to the sureties of the S Charles J Lloyd. Tenders wJI shortly be called for carrying the work out to completion —It was also decided to pay over to the Public Trustee, a sum of £70 duo to the estate of C. Lloyd, namely, .£SO on account of unacKing, and £20 deposit. A resolution was also passed, requesting the Marine Department to have the foreshore, pilot reserve and wharves vested in the Board. At the district school cemmitteo meeting this week a resolution wat passed, recommending Mr G. Gosnell, late pupil teacher, W'liroa district school, for a training school scholarship, for which, ho is now eligible. Sγ Gosnell, for his general proficiency is idly entitled to a scholarship, and if he docs not obtain one it will not be for the want of "mitv Hastings, who was recently remanded from Napier to here on a charge of larceny as a bailee, was tried last Tuesday the result being a dismissal of the mformation on several grounds, one being She Bench did not think a jury could convict on tho evidence adduced The owiorshipofthehor.se was a moot point, Mr Bendull and the informant-Ka Pohutu -assertiiK' that Mr Bendall gave the horse to a native named Tamati years ago ; but Tamati himself swore the horse was not his. So the case was dismissed. On Thursday night Constable &haw arrested a native named Wi Hunc but reioieih" in the possession of several aliases. He was locked up on a warrant issued at Prwhorne, charging him with stealing a £rS paging of Onnond. Prisoner was remanded to Oisborne. 'Hie 'Ecv. Father Cassidy ia to deliver a locturo here in the County Hall on the 21st l;«t on "Religion-considered from a Political, Social, and Domestic point of Vi Mr'M. M'lvor, of Waikari, has purt. ILm the Public Trustee, block V., WS ri"S acres-at the upset £30. annual examination of the Wairoa district school pupils iv standards v. ami vi, wUI be held on the 10th November. Revs.