TOLOGA BAY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1093, 29 June 1882, Page 2

TOLOGA BAY.

(from our own correspondent.) Rain, ruin, has been descending almost continually for the last few days, and what with it and the absence of business Tologa is dull indeed. The roads are in a desperate condition, and in several places almost impassable, and dangerous in the extreme. Of course it is too late to cry out about them now ; nothing can be done, aud in the summer, when they could have been’ put in repair, the cry “ Plenty of time yet 1” was always on the lip. I suppose the Council is wsiting for some person to get killed, or else for an action-at-law to be instituted against them before they awake from their blind, careless lethargy. “ Money has been spent upon ths roads!” I fancy I hear them say, but tho good actually done would have been almost the same had the mouey been thrown directly into the sea. Surely the County Council should have its motto registered “ Penny wise, pound foolish 1” I suppose I shall be called over the coals for having a good round fling. 1 am not in a bad temper to day really, but I want to know why the spiritual advisers of the generation of wickedness have altogether deserted this locality. Does Mephistopheles reign so triumphant that there is no show for the other chaps ? or do these shepherds of the flock think that the people of Tologa Bay are so good that they need not exhortation to holiness. They should come and live here for a week if they think this is the ease. But really, speaking in a more rational way, we have only had (I believe) two services here during the last nine months, so that the Ministers cannot say that we make too many demands upon their time. It is seriously contemplated here that unless we have a Minister before long, we shall have to “run the show ourselves.” The s.s. Rosina is lying in the river weather-bound, and from present appearances she will have to stay here some few- days longer: “ Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em ; And little fleas have lesser fleas and ao ad infinitum' 1 How about the sitting of the Supreme Court in Gisborne ? I notice some of the smaller fleas have been taking the matter up. Isn’t it possible to get some of tho larger fleas to take a sharper hold, and keep hold till we get our desired object.