TOLOGA BAY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1076, 20 May 1882, Page 3

TOLOGA BAY.

[from a correspondent.] May 19. "We here today are having our Maori rejoicing. Mr Henare Potae brings to his ain countree his blooming bride, with her large family of children ; and when the Chieftain does that, of course w e meaner people all make merry. The progress of refinement on the East Coast deters the Maori man and brother from dancing in nudis naturalibus,, but really the gestures they go through, and the indignation and other violent feelings they try to display are much •clouded over by the art treasures as regards clothing of Pooley and Worth. Nevertheless we too must follow the fashions in our minor way, and be ■contented with a very small edition (in duodecimo) of what is now, or was lately going on at Whatiwhatihoe—- ’* the settlement of the broken paddle!'’ What a name to give a place—the abode of mock royalty too. I wonder if any of the august specials now in "Waikato will favor the public with the legend of the broken paddle, and whether it was broken by fair use, or ■over some one's back ? It is much to be feared that legend wATJbe lost, for where the poor speciS/s cannot get a dropof mountain dew or other beverage to their liking, romance is very apt to fly out at the window. The East Coast Land Company were tip here last week in the persons of Messrs De Lautour, Harris and Rees, and the Paremata block has now been settled for by a payment of £lOO. shared out man for man amongst the •owners. Avery old inveterate debtor as'•• nisned tne Clerk of the Court here by “ paying into Court" a long standing •claim. He had, however, discovered that the law w as stronger than he, and that it would be a very expensive method of satisfying a judgment to ■allow the bailiff to seize horse after horse until the said debt was ob literated. It is to be hoped, if the County Council “ impose tolls "on the main roads, that they will maintain “ free ferries ”to balance their books. Such would be a great boon to the travelling public.