EAST COAST LETTER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1361, 27 September 1883, Page 2

EAST COAST LETTER.

(From our own Correspondent. ) Uawa, 23rd September. The bad weather has been very severe upon the sheep farmers in tins district, and Hie season has not beeu a goou one for lambing, as a great per centage have died. The steamer Rosina made au attempt to leavu ou Friday, the 14th, but got on the bunk on the south side uf the river, through au error uf judgment ou the part of WHO ever was lu charge ui her, as there aptu be plenty ui water un Lhe bar, eigut feet being uiu luwest depth. On Saturday muruing she broke htr rudder through bumping ou the sand bank. She was gut ulf ou Monday inurniug aud came into the river. Her rudder was piuatd up sviuewhere ou the beach, she gut patched up and managed tu get uut on Friday, the 21st, bound to Gisborne,

A public meeting was held on Friday n gut, at Mr liudge s Hotel, Tolugu Buy, fur tue purpose uf us King the Cook Cuumy Council tu remove iue public pound from wuere it is al present to suine inure convenient place. The meeting was well attended, and Mr Hale was voted to the chair, it Wad resolved that a committee uf three be appointed, consisting uf Messrs Hudges, liaie, and Finlay, tu see and make arrangements with Mr vViiiiams, the pnseut pound Keeper, about his resignation, an 4 to see who will take it over ; also to iniorm the Council about the mailer. It seems very strange that no one cares about taking over this pound. Belure the meeting, two or three persons were very willing tu do so— m fact, only LUU glad— but when it came to a matter uf £. s. d, they did nut care about it, as it costs something to erect a good pound There was also a race meeting called for tne same evenlug, at the same hotel, Mr McFarlane in lhe chair. The meeting was adjourned until Saturday, the 29th uf thia month, for lhe purpose oi giving more notice to parties interested who live some distance away. There is an old saying and a true one th “It never rains but what it pours. Un Friday night, the 21st, there was a dance in the old shed known as the Courthouse, which was well attended, and dancing was kept up till the small hours of the morning. It waa a very pleasant evening, and every one seemed to enjoy theuuclves. The only hitch was the music, which was very bad, owing to the want of a good instrument, aud the only other one in the district the owner refused to lend, They managed to get on quite well enough without his favor. At about midnight a very good refreshment was provided (which was not like the pound—it did not go a begging.) Our punt on the river is ready and waiting i for the County Engineer to send up some iron work for the working of it, which I believe is coming in the Waiapu. Thiis rather rough upon Mr Kirk, whn was bound to have the punt ready for working on the 16th of this month, under a penalty of n pound a day. * Now it is the 22nd, and the Emjineer of the County has kept Mr K >k and the general public wai ing since the 16th

for a few pieces of ironwork which a contractor would have had here in a week.

Mr D. McLeod has arrived, and is going to start his road making on Monday. I du. t think a better man could have got the contract. The district will go ahead yet.