Wairoa Notes.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 162, 20 July 1901, Page 4

Wairoa Notes.

(From tho Guardian.)

Mr Lysnar is not only an advocate of liquor, but a decided opponent of water. We always knew that. Mr P. Crain, our well-known Jehu, states that he will be able to drive through to Napier in one day during the summer months. Tho route, it is expected, will bo fully bridged during tho coinin'* summer.

One of tho Huramua Mountcds noncommissioned officers, who was not at Newton Park, but who was thinking of volunteering for South Africa, was charged by a pure-bred Hereford the other night, and had to scale a fence at the “ double "

to escape impalement ! Nice chance if it were tho Boers ! He is now thinking of tmining for the next H.B. Steeplechase instead !

Mr Xiccoli, contractor for the erection of the Nuhaka bridge, is getting on well with the work. Ho has got two booms up. and considers he has the worst half of the contract finished. From what we can

hear it is going to be a splendid bridge, when finished.

A local sheep-fanner in making arrange ment with a party of bushfall'ers yesterday told them he would have to insure tlieni. Says one of the natives: “ What that fellow?” Sheepfarmer: “If any of you fellows get killed, I have to make a pay so that you can hold atangi!” Native : “Never mind tangi; bury him in the bush!”

The Nuhaka river at Stewart’s Crossing was five feet high on Monday morning and running very swiftly, travellers being taken over in canoes" All sorts cf diminutive boys carry out this work, and if the Council could make any better arrangement it would be appreciated by the public. There is a cage service, but it is out of order. Why not have it made efficient ?

The new name for the s.s. Tangaroais “ The Phantom Ship ! ” She is said to appear off the Wairoa beach now and again, and after rolling and pitching for a while disappears in the mist in the direction of the Iron Pot. Captain Anderson Vanderdecken, vowing unutterable things at the bar, is condemned to stay outside for ever!