EAST COAST LETTER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1351, 4 September 1883, Page 2

EAST COAST LETTER.

I (From opr own Cohr wondint.) Now that the rush up to Waiomatatinl ii over I suppose we must settle down in our old dormant state for a time. All who returned from the haka expressed themeelvM very much disappointed; in fact they saw nothing worth walking a mile for, A wM quite a cell. Great amusement wee unused lent Sunday in the towmhip by a modern Johnny Gilpin, who was got up for the oocuion in a riding costume, but who evidently knew more about riding on a bullock dray than on a racehone. He managed, with the help of the proprietor of the Sea View Hotel Ao mount The Cat, a well known UttU racehorse of Mr Haigs’ and which started in a canter, but the man had no more control over him than a child. In fact the hored could not understand the riders hoeW hammering against his stilus, anil horse and man nearly parted company more than once, but by the help of the mane and pummel ho managed to remain on some pert of the horse, which at last came homo to hie stable lame, and the man got off quite satisfied. This is a course of training The Cat has commenced for our next races,—a new style from Waikato. Mr Haig has been very fortunate to obtain such a good man, 1 am very glad to see that the County Council has not forgotten that there is such a place as Tologa Bay, for I see they are calling tenders tor making about 14 chains and opening up a drain at Tologa Bay which waa greatly wanted, tor the road is quite impassable. I am happy to say that the best job done for a long time has been done for us by Mr D. M'Lood, and he desorves great praise for the culvert on the flat on the other side. The steamer Rosina called in the Bay last Tuesday and landed some oargo on her way back from the coast. Mr Kirk, who has the contract tot Eutting the ferry punt at Uawa in good order, as got all his gear on the ground ready, and starts on Monday so that travellers for the next two weeks will have to swim their horses at thia place, but the punt wants a good overhauling and no doubt Mr Kirk will give the Council satisfaction. Great dissatisfaction is caused among the working men at the manner in which the ferry on the Uawa river Is going to be put up for sale on the first of the month. The general opinion is that it is meant to keep hard-working mon from going in for it, as whoever purchases the right of the ferry has to put down £2O with the Council, as a guarantee, besides having to pay his quarter’s money down, and also find two sureties of £l5. Besides the scale of fees are altered. If a man wants to bring over one sheep he has to psy 8s 6d, and if the cattle ford half price. lam surprised the Council did not alter the scale for horsemen, and make it single fare up to ton o’clock at night. As it la now from 6 a.m. till 6 p.m., a horse and rider is 2s, which is a big price. What working man can leave £2O with the County Council for twelve months. I say not one ; and our Councillors if they had to work themselves, would be the first to sing out about it. But it is too late to talk about it now. The R.M. Court, and Licensing Court, sits here on the 6th, and there will be a great stir in the township, as the clerk informs me there is a lot of cases for hearing which may take two days. There will be a great demand for lawyers, among the ladies who are going to have a great say in the next court. What a show for the law profession ; as good as the Cambridge Land Court. A good looking one will be pounced on as soon as he makes his appearance on the bank of the river. We have had a good deal of snow on the tops of the hills surrounding Tologa Bay; a eight that is new here, and has not been seen for a good many years before. About Tawhiti there was from one foot to 18 inches of snow. Uawa, August 29th, 1883.