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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 461, 24 September 1879, Page 2

The Rangitikei Advocate says “ lh® present road from the Manawatu River to Otaki runs over Native land that has not yet been acquired or in any \yay legalised. Recently a Native woman impounded a horse which had been tethered on the route, and was summoned for illegally impounding. The case was heard at the Foxfon R.M. Court, when, after the examination of native witnesses, it came out that the road was really Native property, which bad never been acquired by the Government.” Mr Freeman, one of the recent candidates for Waimate, is a remarkable man (says the Auckland Star). When on the hustings, he was saluted with a shower of flour bags, but, nothing he preserved his temper throughout. With regard to local option, the candidate said that if a man wanted a glass of whiskey by all means let him get it, because if he wanted one he would get it. (Laughter). The less said about it the better. On being asked his opinion on the “unearned increment,” ho demanded that the question should be put in English. (Loud laughter). On the question of woman suffrage, he thought she suffered enough already. (Loud laughter.) He had no income, and thought it a hard thing for a man to ge« hold of. (Laughter.)