HARAPIPI.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2698, 26 October 1889, Page 2

HARAPIPI.

An Explanation.—ln my report of the last meeting of the Pirongia Highway Board, I made a slight mistake which seema to have put Mr D. Finlayson, junr., out a trifle. lam sorry I made it, but tl)9 explanation of it will be, I am afraid, something like the midshipman's apology in one of Captain Marryat's tiles, viz., not make matters much better. I wrote my former letter from memory, but I find, on referring to my rough notes ot the meeting, that directly after Mr Finlayson's letter had been read, the Chairman said that lie had been speaking to Mr Finlayson on the subject, who had told him that unless the Board did what he wanted ho would not pay any more rates, and that they might take him to Court before he would pay, or words to that effect. The only difference is that I put the disrespect into the letter instead of as spoken. Tho statement was made in the open meeting, not privately, or I should not have reported it, as men often say a good deal more than they intend to do when excited or iu a passion. I fact I did not intend to take any more notice of the matter, but people like to make mountains out of molu-hills. If Mr Finlayson had called on the clerk or myself he could have obtained all the information-he required. My corrected report ouly leaves tho matter iu the same state, or, as Sir Boyle Roach would have said, just tho same, only different. A correspondent in these little Pedlingtou sort of districts has a very difliculfc task, as yon are continually treading on somebody's corns, ns the truth is at tirnea very inconvenient, and not at all pleasant. However, I hope my exDlanation will satisfy the aggrieved now, as the subject is so trivial that it is not worth writing about.

Thk Wi'ATKKit,—For the last week we have been getting some very fine weather for all sorts of out-of-door work, hot days and dry, cold nights, but very bad for the grass, as the growth is very little. It is predicted by tho weather wise that we shall have a very hot, dry summer,