EKETAHUNA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2976, 14 August 1888, Page 2

EKETAHUNA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

We, the bachelors of Eketahuna, intend giving a dance in Tuck's Hall every Thursday night, and we intend to keep it quite select. You hare not kept your word pledged to the ladies, bachelorsl Why was there such gloom depicted on the brows of the ladies last Thursday night. Do you think that we are going to let our wives and daughters attend your- dancing class. Several ladies tell me that they will not go there again if a certain party is admitted. You know she was so very fond of dancing, allow me to remark, that one fine day she danced away, &c, and then you know—had to go into partnership with a clear statelier. There is a subscription list going round the district in aid of the wife and family of the man' John Hopwood, who had his legs broken last week, and is now in the Masterton Hospital. There is some talk of getting up a concert in aid of the above, and I hope it will be a success as the family want it badly. • The Star correspondent takes ex"captiou to my letter about the siskuess here. He says there is none. If he is the person I suspect, I should like to ask him why he removed his family to higher ground but for the siokness of his wife and family. If he can point out half a dozen persons including himself that has not been sick this last month I will withdraw my statement. Then again ho states that there is no filth coming from the houses to the road and remaining there. Will He point out wh6reit goes to. Is there any drain to carry it off. What about the drain from the butcher's shop, and the hotel, the horrible hole in front of the store, the refuse running between the boarding house and the shoemakers shop across tho footpath, the whole of it turning a stagnant pool alongside of the road. If his nose does not detect anything offensive in the above, I should advise him, as he talks about leaving here to apply for the situation of carrier to the Wellington Destructor.