KAIHU CLIPPINGS.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 177, 23 December 1892, Page 3

KAIHU CLIPPINGS .

[By Old Kaihu.] He has gone. Our real live town larrikin has departed. ITe was lonely here ;no one to associate with (what a comphment to our Wairoa boys). I hear a very amusing scene took place in the library a few nights since. Bombastes tried to bully the librarian and caught a Tartar. Mr Connolly, formerly of Maropiu, has started business as a general storekeeper on the old race-course land, and I hear that another party is about to purchase an allotment handy to the bridge landing and Mr Dargaville’s proposed new saw mill, on which he also intends to erect a store. Nothing like competition ; monopoly does not cross the Quebec Creek.

A. great number of the Dargaville people were sorry to see the ploughman come to grief the other day ; they can speak feelingly on the subject, some of them]! having come into collision with that same snag themselves.

I hoard last week that I had been threatened with a libel action over those questions of mine some time since about that whaleboat race—damages, two thousand pounds I must smother my thirst for information if it is to be so expensive. It has not come off yet, however. I wonder whether the “ expert ” decided unfavourably' or declined to take it up on Dodson and Fogg’s system, or whether my friend thought discretion the better part of valour. The old settler allows that he could strike such a blow in my opponent's breadbasket or beer case as would settle him in one round (He must have his little joke, you know). I am pleased to see the N. W. Racing Club has beaten the Auckland Club on all points and the racing on Boxing Day will come off as usual, only on the Dargaville old course instead of blungawhare. A selfish, giasping policy generally defeats itself m the long rim. Mr W. A., Spiers, of Dargaville, has the con tract for the new grand stand and already has it in a forward state.

What has happened your up-river contemporary ? Not a word about Scrawl wordy, the Hardskins, or the quack for some months past; but I see he is going in for those erstwhile pets of bis, the poor orphans. What have they done ? Of course we know the “Old Commodore ” is annoyingly persistent and punctual. Still I hope he will consider the widow and orphans and not bring blue ruin on them by withdrawing his patronage. I wish you Mr Editor and your readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.