KAIHU CLIPPINGS.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 168, 21 October 1892, Page 5

KAIHU CLIPPINGS.

[By Odd Kaiiiu.] I see a member in the House refers to Lundon as that “infamous ” man. Is not this the same party that gave Mr Dargaville such a sound beating at the last election for the Bay of Islands ? The old politician found the back stairs no go. Poor fellow ! politically he is dead, very dead, and only requires decent burial. Some of his friends(?)in anticipation of his elevation had designed a Coat-of-Arms for him, and I have been favoured with a view of the sketch. It is a yellow bull rampant and rumping on a green ground surmounted by a cabbage with the motto (in bog latin of course) “ Base is the slave who pays ” (if he can help it). Very appropriate, especially the motto. Your up river contemporary wonders no whale-boat crews are in training for the forthcoming regatta. He need not worry himself on that score; the whale-boat business stinks in the nostrils of the local rowing men since a certain old party organised a crew to compete in Auckland and then shuffled out of all responsibility and left other people to pay the piper. Who wrote that telegram to White of Mercury Bay

and got another man to sign it ? Who had to pay the trainer and boat builder ? Who chartered the Kopuru to take the crew to Helensville and is that account paid yet P Who got the liquors at O’Connor’s and how did O’Connor get paid ? Is the Northern Wairoa Hotel account yet paid P And who drank the case of beer that Messrs L. D, Nathan Sc Co so kindly sent the crew when in training ? These are the questions now being asked on all sides. Some of the crew would like to know you know.