ALFREDTON NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3690, 18 December 1890, Page 2

ALFREDTON NOTES.

; ■ The majority, of the peojile here are ■-mE' [ much disgusted : at the result; of eleotjon .forMistertbn, ind-'it is ; »' ■', ' puzzie to- aotrie 'hoff flo.mdQy were ofcttiiii&in th'ero area lob'of etrangera t>usbfaning, ! A 1 shearing, 'etc,l sbd has made a start, and some of themjrtto ■ / ' in favour: of 'Hogg as might'' hive < beenexpebted. Otlrerwia.ldo inot think he would have obtained five ' votes. Sofarassettlereareconcerneii - they have a little more sense, they do; , notbeliofein man's ' ■ Friend (?)" So far as Alfredton is • concerned we had a full muster, and settlors only?regret that other places did not turn! out' iiJwelK! 1 .fl Wo are,fated to liave.no reprcsen. tative in here, in the form of a j,P. ' Several settlers' Were to 'accept ' that unthankful Office, l beliove, but ' one and ali; declined;'' 1 'lfciflepms! i' • podfica. ojf * • t, of, Oounty.'.Councillor, and; JvP, v c,> evidently go a begging, so far -aa this '• placeiaconcerned. ■ Thero isgoing'to ba. a concert and dance combined,on,the 18th inst, ' Any funds a're to go to liquidate' T*,i the debtstill on the:.,hall, : So itis to u t .(( fT; be hoped those: who have tho manage" vi'. ment oE affairs will not be extravagant, i 7. One time, not very many years ago, indeed at the first dance in here, there happened to be a piano, and the settlers requested that some of .the. dances should be accompanied \ With a concert or nceordian, 83 it was far nicer tq' daric^'to 1 . Nowi they' s have become a; little', more ' civilized ' and cannot do without one, and must ' : ' v ' have expensive music .hy going even ,: as far as Masterton for a pianist. : On : . one occasion they got some one frowvil' Eketahuna.' ; ' ■■■ "! v.;