MAURICEVILLE NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4494, 4 August 1893, Page 2

MAURICEVILLE NOTES.

■ [By Eustio.] Tho usual depressing influences of 'mid-win!er have of late been intenoified throughout the Forty-mile Hush by the recent heavy rains, and wheel traffic, except on the main road, is at present an impossibility. Slips on the uowly-foraied roads are of daily occurrence, aud there is no help for it but to wait until the*season advances towards summer, and dry weather Gels in. Tho winter, so far, has been remarkable for heavy rains, and tho almost dntire absence of frost. Consequently, tho grass—especially tho young grass-is more abundant thro is usually the case at this time of the year, with the result of all kinds—with theprcspectoFanearly spring—will 'pull through in fairly good condition. Work in this district is fairly plentiful, notwithstanding the fact that there are '

PLENTY OP SWAGGERS passing and ro-paesing through tho Bueli. But these gentry do not cars to leave the.-main road, and I am bound to admit that it requires more than a little self denial to turn aside into the vjlderness and tcokle bushfelling, fencing, or roadmaking.at this season of the year. As a matter of fact any respectable swagger who baa at all been used to the.comforts of a prison life, laughs theidea to scorn as he trudges along in Bearch of. work which commands a view of the main road. And that reminds me, although' I don't know why it should, that within the last few days, we have received a visit from

A VERY IMPORTANT PERSONAGE. His mission to Maurioevillo was to induce (or seduce) the. benighted in« habitants into becoming subscribers to certain Liberal organs of public opinion, and-as he airily put it to me "to give tho agents of the said organs arouse up I" He is a dapper littlo man and we took an interest in him whilo ho whs here, although he left a little disappointed with us. His look of pained surprise when we admitted being subscfibers to certain organs ofa Conservative typo touched us deeply. Be had no idea that such a state of things existed—cotild possibly, exist —in a country village, He must go round and ;

BI'EAKTOTHE-fSMJ about it. He had a mission toperform, He called for a horso. We brought him out one; a horto that wo kept for special occasions, but the tingrateful man refused to ride it, : Weassured him, with tears in our eyes, that the animal was all light, and not half such a rickety prnd as his own hobby horse I But )'o shook his head and smiled sadly (tbe man not the horse). Tlion one of the boys asked him if he ever rodo on a rail. Ho suddenly, at this moment, remembered an appointment at the Post Office, and so he left us more in sorrow than in anger. He subsequently obtained a directory at the Post Office, and took our names down on bin tablets; not with a view to'having us punished I betiove, but rather with'a view to having our benighted condition brought under the notice of the

KNIOHTS OF L4BOUB or the Government—perhaps both. I think he believes that we mean well, and I am sure that we believe he means—we'll—anything that will put coin in his satcbel without wringing the sweat from bis manly brow 1 5 '

I There is to be a concert and dance at the schoolhoase, Mauricevillo west, in aid of the School Library on Friday next, tho 4th inst., when it isjxpeeted that a bumper house'will greet tha local amateurs. Great interest is, taken in this matter by all the leading resii dents, who fully recognise the necessity of a good library for the young, and nothing is being left undone to make the affair tbe success it deserves. Light refreshments will bo provided by the ladies.