NAPIER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 308, 18 September 1875, Page 2

NAPIER.

(from an - occasional coßbbseondent.) Falk cousin Turanga, I salute and rejoice to think that you have given vent to such a strong opinion on the

subject of Abolition, with the consummation of that measure, Hawke’s Bay and yourself, will occupy the position geographically assigned, to you respectively but ruthlessly severed by Provineialisfii. Every other portion of New Zealand appears to be heartily bored with the interminable length the debate has assumed ; but this district appears to treat the whole affair with with a certain airof-stiijeal indifference, probably—deeming - it-eu pciffihous to express any opinion on the subject, by 'nreanrwf- ‘prrtJtftUHffieting ot petitionbeing no doubt thoroughly satisfied to leave the matter in tfie hands of our able representative. . . An individual of an enquiring turn of mind, and hot altogether familiar with Napier, might, if he tarried long before uie‘'Provincial' Building's,' on Thursday., last,, puzzle his brain to, ascertain the why and wherefore of the stealthy, cowering-likq visits that wefe being made all day to tlie Council Chambers. > 'iScHne Ist. Party stands opposite j»ate ' Tealding to Governnien't lawn. Glances furtively up and down ShakesEeai’e Road- Energetic ;Cqbby, thinks e spots a fare. Disappointment. • f ’ Scene. \2nd. PUrty drilws dial over ears, darts Chambers, buries himself in darksome recess. Writes,. Drops missive in receptacle. Scenq SijZ, and lasti. Independentelector, — joyous expression of face ■ —weight evMtfiflyloff making to nearest ppb.” These visits I may inform you were parties recording, their'totes for th& election of three Councillors for the Borough' of Napieri Thb candidates are Messrs. Stuart, SwLHijjßpbjqhns and Tuxford. Mr. Swan’s election appears to be tolerably certain. And for thb other candidates the betting appears to be even. Mr. fituart, the Mayor—-“ the first Mayor df Napier,’’ should stand well on the list, but yvith the' bile'rous duties pertaining'to such an office, niipbpularity springs up, which in some way may tend to militate against his chances of success. Some months ago, y our N a pier correspodont took occasion to make some favorable commejits on a work that was then about to issue from the press, depicting the life and doings of the ancient Maori. Sir George Grey in the House yhu either evening, made the following eulogistic remarks on the same Wo fit, a. productibii of Mr. John White’s. Theopinionof authority like. Sir, George Grey on such a, subject whatever naay be his political' predilections, is deserving of attention, fie says: “There was another wort of a most remarkable Character to Mr. which he might alstfrefer, a work by John White, which he scarcely kn’ew How to describe—whether romance or novel, or what description- he could not properly say —but which was the , ihost intensely Mdori work that could possiMy be conceived. It was a picture of Maori life’ ’of the most graphic 'hind; the conversations introduced into it were moat interesting, and intensify' 'Native 'in character, jffej djid not know that so faithful a picture of daily life among any Native'race existed as that which was contained ip work fiy Mr. White.”