KAIKOURA.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2394, 5 December 1881, Page 4

KAIKOURA.

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]

We have three candidates for the Kaikoura seat; they have each had their say and departed. There was quite a little excitement for the time being, and really in this corner a little effervescence is good for the health. We seem quite isolated from the rest of the world, so seize on anything to form a distraction and drive away ennui. We even at this lime of year did not receive our lettera until they were almost due again. The steamers are very irregular. Mr Wajland utilised his pigeons. He sent some by the steamer trading here, and received answers by them to soy that the steamer was detained by not having finished loading, but would be here by Saturday morning. Accordingly onr letters that were to have been here Wednesday came on that day. I wish we could pigeon our mails, not that I think there is fault with the carrier. He must have his work to do to get them in time on the bad roads and the nasty rivers and mountains to cross.

Tho Road Board have received their money from the Colonial Treasurer, amounting to £370. They certainly make good use of it, and it seems too to be no easy matter to deal with the roads here. With the swift mountain streams sometimes flooding them and making them impassable, if there was not great ingenuity displayed there would be no such thing as being able to get about for some time after heavy rains, but there is such a system of deep ditching and drainage on each side of the road that locomotion is comparatively easy at the worst of times. But I should say it is a very hard place to make the roads right and keep them so, and all concerned in the matter deserve great praise. The newly-elected County Council sat for the first time on the 23rd, Mr H. A. Ingles presided previous to his retirement. The Councillors present were Messrs J. Harnett, sonr., S, W. Maxton, T. Cooke, Walter Gibson, A. Close, A. McLaurin and G. Morrison. The Chairman said that he wished to propose one of their number to fill tho office of chairman, accordingly Or. Cooke proposed Mr Maxton for the office, and he, after a little demur, was voted to the chair. Mr Maxton thanked the Council for the honor conferred upon him. After eulogising the retiring chairman, and giving him a hearty vote of thanks and discussing a few matters, Mr Ingles acknowledging tho compliment, tho proceedings terminated. The weather hero is dull, cold and showery, but I suppose cultivators will say it is most seasonable, and all that could be wished. Farmers are making the most of the weather by setting their crops. Potatoes are going ahead, notwithstanding their low price. The various crops around look beautiful in their rich green verdure, backed by the rugged mountains with their departing garments of nnow. It is a lovely picture to contemplate, flanked by the ever restless ocean. The scent, too, from the bush at evening and early morning is delicious and sometimes overpowering. Nov. 27th,