COAST NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3679, 4 December 1890, Page 2

COAST NOTES.

(By Fossioker.) Tuesday, Deo, 2nd, Since my last notes the weather has been exceptionally fine, and most peoplo are crying out for rain; this evening we appeared to be in for a storm; but it passed ow after a couple of rain showers, preceded by a thunder clap. r Oil Thursday morning; 20th November the Wakatu steamship arrived at GistlcpoinEj intending to take a cargo of wool; owing to the heavy easterly swell on the Coast, she had to lay by until Saturday morning, when she was , able to commence operations, continuing work on Sunday and leaving for Wellington in the evening with 220 bales of wool aboard, principally from Messrs Maunsell's station, Tenui, . On this Sunday, Cashpoint was seen to advantage, there being quite a number of visitors, both ladieß and gentlemen on the beach who seemed to be enjoying to the full one of the most beautiful days' we have had this summer, In the evening Mr George Beetham avrived from Tenui, where the night before he had addressed the electors on things political, Loving bad a good meeting, and a hearty vote of thanks having been accorded to him for bis address, On Monday early ho and his brother did some fishing; on the Cashpoint reef and caught several fish; they then started for Aohonga and Ak(tio, They met with a slight mishap on the beach, but by the ingenious manipulation of flax were enabled to reach in safety the end of their journey, and got back to Whakataki on Wednesday evening to address the electors there; Mr McHutchon presided. , The raeeling was a most orderly one. There was a large attendance of both sexes, and at the conclusion of his address a hearty voto of thanks was accorded Mr Beetham.

We have of course Lad a yieit from that Pachydermatous individual called Hogg, and have had to listen very patiently to the usual clap trap, He spoke at Wliakataki on Friday last. Of course he had a fair hearing." The Beetliamites are not to be compared to the Hoggonians in this respect; they give fair play, and do not indulge in the stamping, yelling, and larrikinisms and blackguard interruptions which! usually characterise ut Hoggonian. The most amusing part of the meeting was the number of small boya collected together, seemingly for tho sole purpose of applauding al a given signal from tho chairman. This puts one very much in mind of a low class music hall in the old country, where they aro admitted free to the gallery for the purpose of applauding. Mr Hogg must certainly feel very proud of bis Wliakataki supporters, who had not even the pluck to stand up and propose a vote of thanks to him for his address, After the chairman had asked twice for a vote of thanks and confidence, and some littta time liad elapsed, two Beethamites in disgust got up and proposed and seconded a voto of thanks.

At Mr Hogg's meeting on Saturday at Timu, we had the usual—do away with the property tax, annihilate i absentees, wholesalo abuso ot AtkinBon Ministry, the land tax was going to burst up largo holdings, &c,, he. How any clear thinking, sensible working mtn can listen to this clap. trapisainy6tery. When speaking on absentees he forgot to tell us that they pay a property tax of about £25,976 annually. Mr Hogg would also havo us believe that land cannot be had at any price, and tho obstacles to settlement have been the difficulty of getting suitable land. In my humble opinion the difficulty is the absence of a suitablo class of mon, who have what may he termeda natural affirnjty to the soil, and who havo sufficient % thPffl over the difficulties of the first two years without getting into debt boyond the power of redemption. Men who have an inborn pleasure in tho. cultivation of tho soil and a delight in watching the growth and progress of all the products of the earth, which a bountiful Providence supplies in return, for ordinary care and intelligence in their cultivation, Another great point With Mr Hogg is;; b tip tho bjg : estate's, 1 ' Surely our resource!! pot so contraotfd. It is pitiable to biar

speeolfs of tbia kind, which seem to imply that there is no hope for the colony except .by a system of plundering one another without adding 5s to the wealth of the colony, Onco or twjge during the evening' hp "quoted that eminent man Sir EoLe'ft fat. He djcf riot' 101 l us tjjat |ij a speech at Napier warned j]u'' people qgajnst (ftj'iiejiii; abolished, vfho tjip property ta unfair and laiijl and incope tax preferable 'but stitntes, jitllc of the flf % psjpnyi W e "fip tajcatipu plpiply tppanp t|ip handipappipg of tpe ipdiislfjesfor tjie benefit of the improvident;' At tjio H of |lr flpgg's addfpssi one pr two ,quegtps were j)sj:ed, bgt the apßyerS wers pvufiTe, ape} tho questioner?

'wirfe Looted,and yelled down by tbe v Pacbydermaw crowd,; so there was no"satisffictioa gofc'in" this - Mr A! Stewart proposed a vote of, thanks and confidence, and Mr J Groves ■ proposed as an amendment a vote of thanks only, which was carrier Polling Jay is the day to : show confidence, and I venture to predict that' our old and trusty representative, Mr - 6. Beetbam, will again bB elected, to . . represent üb, • .