HARAPEPE AGAIN.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1055, 29 March 1879, Page 3

HARAPEPE AGAIN.

Sib, —I really am very sorry that I offended "your own correspondent" by reading the newspaper during a meeting of the Pirongia District Board, but the fact is I -was so entranced with the last effusion of "your own"—drinking in deep draughts of wisdom from the accumulated stores therein contained, auent the weather and the crops—that I hardly noticed when the discussion of the Board emerged from nonsense to business—from grave to gay. The innate modesty of " your own " prevents him from informing the public generally that he and the Chairman are one, but he does tell them that the business was not of much public interest. I suppose the converse is true likewise, and I am really flattered to know—on the authority of "your own" —that my reading the newppaper was a matter of public importance. In reality, the business was of private interest, though not of public interest, and it happened in this wise. There is a proposal on foot to erect a bridge across the Waipa, and, as usual, there is a battle of sites. A certain busybody (not "your own "), who lives not one hundred miles from the upper site, thought he had dis--«pvered an efficient cure for the lower one -m that one of the trustees, who was known to be favorable to that site, was not qualified, and forthwith hastens off to the Chairman, whose feelings run in the same direction, with the news, forgetting that the same trustee had sat for years, and with the same Chairman—no question being raised about it. It was gently hinted to the trustee in question that if ho would resign there would be no more said about it, but unfortunately ho did not seo it. Accordingly, the Chairman introduced the subject at the meeting, with all the gravity becoming such an important question. I reminded him that it was a matter which the Board could not decide, but he the idea that there was any subject of such magnitude as to under the Board unable to take oognizance of it,- and accordingly the ownership of the unfortunate trustee's land was overhauled from his first residence in the district, and before too, until the latest date, in the endeavor to find a solution of this knotty point, It aU ended in smoke, " Wine ilia lachryma." During the discussion, I sought wisdom in the columns cf the Times, thereby avoiding the heavy artillery of the Chairman's eloquence. The consequence was, business occupied us till a late hour, .but we spent a very pleasant evening nevertheless, breaking up towards " the wee, sma' hours ayont the twal \"—l am, &c, Anot#bb Cokbespondent, najjed— EpwAin GK MoMinn.