PORT ALBERT.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 227, 8 December 1893, Page 7

PORT ALBERT.

[from our own correspondent] The Elections are now over and. the great Liberal Government, which was bossingthe country has received a surprising defeat which they deserve as for the last few months they- have been unbearable —Diek(tator) Seddon especially —and from which they will not recover —the vaunted -Liberal Government. It is pleasing- to have to congratulate theolectorsof Waiternata en their selection of a member to represent them, as in Mr Monk they have a gentleman who has the interests of the country at heart, not only his own electorate as some of the wouldbe members would have had were they returned. The ladies also are to be congratulated for the good use they have made of their newly acquired privilege, for in this part of the electorate they were the voters that put the right man in (70 out of 72) voting for Mr Monk which shows that they have more intelligence and thought than a number ®f men. It is to be hoped that they will always use it so well, in spite of the assertion made

, by the Auckland ‘Star’ that Port Albert : electors were a lot cf fools for voting for Mr ! Monk, but I think by this time they will ; have come to the conclusion, that they .Were the biggest fools for not voting- for him. The Mutual Improvement Glass met as usual on Saturday night, the President in the chair. There was only small attendance as there have been so many election meetings that people are getting tired of being B!i (- late at night. The. programme wits as follows:—lustra mental music Mrs D. Beecrofi: ; recitation, Mr C. Judd; recitation, Mr O’Counel; impromptu speeches by Messrs Judd, O’Connell and E. Partington. Mr R. Parting-ton met with what might have been a serious accident at the mill. He works at one of the circular saws and by some means he got his bunds on the saw which cut it rather seriously, but fortunately it did not touch the fingers but was on the back of the hand. lam glad to report that he is: getting better under the skilful attention of Mr Reid. The schooner, Coquette, is loading at the Rikau Mill for Sydney to the order of Mr Matthews of the Wairoa. It is a pleasing sight to go on the wharf and see the number of bales of wool there ready to be sent to Auckland this week. There will be about sixty bales to go down by this steamer which is a great increase on former years and we hope it will be further increased next year. Mr Crowe the Inspector of schools examined the Port Albert school, and from what I can hear it was very satisfactory considering the bad weather we have hail and the amount of sickness there has been in the district. I regret to have to record the drowningof a young man named Austin Cullen whose parents reside in Auckland, It seems he was going down to the gum fields at Hargreave in an old punt that was very leaky when she filled, and he being a poor swimmer and a poor hand in a boat lie was rather excited and was unable to reach the shore.