The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1880.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 397, 24 February 1880, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1880.

We understand that the news of the grant of £I2OO to be spent on roads at Mauriceville has been received with great satisfaction by the Scandinavian families settled there. At the present time these industrious and persevering settlers are short of roads, short of employment, and short of money. The expenditure of this grant will supply all three needs, and, as it were, help the settlement at a pinch. Knowing how richly the Mauriceville settlers deserve the assistance which this grant accords to them, ajid feeling a hearty sympathy with them as valuable colonists and good citizens, we sincerely congratulate our friends there on their good fortune. We desire to say a word or two specially to our readers in that settlement, for we are glad to say the Wairarapa Daiu has many friends both at Eketaliuna and Mauricevillfi, and we might also say further, as characteristic of theirnationality, that they pay for their paper more punctually than almost any other class of subscribers we have. Our Scandinavian friends take but little interest in politics, but they take a warm interest in their own settlement, and they like to know to whom they are indebted for any help that may come to them from the outside world, The present grant of £llioo will be looked upon by them as a very great help, as £I2OO will go a long way further with them than it will with many others. We desire to explain to them that their representatives in the County Council, Messrs 1.6, Moore and D. McGregor, brought their claims to this consideration before the Council, and got it to endorse an application to the Government for this sum. • Subsequently, Mr C. Pharazyn, the Chairman of the Council, used his best efforts with the Government, and succeeded in obtaining the money. In Messrs Moore, McGregor, and Pharazyn, our Mauriceville neighbors have had three friends, who have worked heartily and earnestly in their interests with the best results. The Mauriceville settlers helped both Messrs Moore and McGregor to their seats on the Council by voting for them, and now they will probably have the satisfaction of seeing that their votes were well and wisely given, and that the slight part they took in a late contested election for the Council has been attended by good results, which they did not at the time anticipate, We trust our Mauriceville friends will be always as happy in the choice of their representatives as they were when they assisted to secure the return of Messrs Moore and McGregor.