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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1360, 25 September 1883, Page 2

The Catholic Church Committee will meet on Wednesday next, Notice is given that it is the intention of Lhe Cook County Council to construct u public drain through a portion of the Kuangarehu Block, Waimata Survey District, Waikohu riding, Cook County and for that purpose to take all that portion of land, commencing at a point on the Gisborne-Opotiki main road, 17U4 links from the boundary of the road reserve, on the western bank of the Waipaoa river, and extending thence towards the South-ea»t by right lines, 886 links, G'JB’s links, reap ctively, to the Waipaoa river, and containing by admeasurement-, 1 acre and 31 perches, as the same is delineated on a plan to be seen at the residence of Mr George Scott, Ruangurehu. All persons affected by the above public work are required to set forth in writing any well grounded objections they may have to the execution of the said work®, and to send such writing to the office '»f the Cook County Council, Gisborne, within 40 days from the date of this notice.

“There is cholera in Europe, malignant and fatal; as also typhoid in its worst ionn ! Diptheria, according to late home reports, is carrying to their last resting places thousands of children, adults at the same time not escaping. . . . There is fever and dysentery of a very dangerous type in Victoria and New South Wales, and we have no right to look for exemption from such visitations to our own doors,” — vide “ Paul Pry ”of Saturday evening. It is evident by the foregoing that the Uld Lady is bent upon frightening her children with some ugly stories. Why we should feel concerned about how many children are being u carried to their last resting places by diptheria, adults at the same time not escaping ,” in a place at the other end of the globe, or how it cun possibly affect Gisborne in any way we utterly fail to see. The announcement that, because certain diseases exist in far distant countries and colonies, we “ have no right to look for exemption from such visitations to our own doors,” is something quite extraordinary, and takes us to some new branch of metaphysics with which, we suppose, the writer alone is acquainted. What is the meaning of these awfully lugubrious wails ? Has this little township ever been visited by any scourage like those above mentioned ? Ur’is the fatuous “Paul” trying to “call spirits from the vasty deep.’' We beg of the doctor and schoolmaster to call upon him.