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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 938, 8 February 1871, Page 3

The following instance of abuse of representation is noticed by the Nelson Examiner : —" The electoral roll of the newly-created electoral district of Waitajvi is composed of seven pastoral tenants and a ferryman. What were the Government about last session when the/ gave a district, with such a sparse population, the power of electing a member of the House of Representatives ? The district of Amuri some years ago, with its thirty electors, most of whom were large landed proprietors, was considered an abuse of the representative principle, but what was that to the six Crown tenants of Waitaki and the ferryman ? " We learn from an Auckland paper that an interesting match came off a few days ago in the Albert Barracks, and to which a large number of persons were witness. It was not a cricket match ; neither was it a rowing, a shooting, nor a wrestling match; but it was a match of throwing •' boomerangs," between Mr Perkins of the Occidental Hotel, and Mr Whitley of the Fijis. The sport was certainly a novel one, and a large number of people very soon collected to witness the gyrations of the wooden missiles, Perkins certainly must have been born an Australian native; on no other hypothesis can we account for the extraordinarily perfect manner in which he " topped his boom." JJe sent it flying along the ground for fifty or sixty yards; it then sped upwards for as many feet, and finally, after performing a variety of antics in the air, it descended gracefully at the thrower's feet, to the intense astonishment and admiration of the assemblage. Mr Whitely had, however, had too much practice with the boomerang to be caught napping, and after a prolonged contest the game was declared to be drawn.