WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3202, 3 October 1881, Page 3

WAIROA.

(from our own cobbespondent). September 30,

If Richard the 111. had lived in these degenerate days he need not have exclaimed, " A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse 1" I noticed the other day in one of the papers that an auctioneer had sold a number of horses at two shillings and sixpence each! On Wednesday at mid-day we had a rather sharp shock of earthquake. The only damage reported is that of a chimney at Frasertown which was overthrown by the shock.

Mr Allan McDonald, M.H.R., for the East Coast district, will address his eonetftuents at Fraeertown on Friday. He speaks at Clyde on Wednesday, and at Mobaka township on Saturday next. Since Mr Locke has withdrawn the light of bis presence from among us matters electioneering have toned down, and the village has resumed its normal state of quiescence. Mr M'Donald will, I suppose, disturb that peaceful state next week. An animated correspondence is now going on in the local paper on the queson of whether or not Mr Locke drove back some 400 natives, purchased 800,000 acres of land in this district, and did sundry other things for Wairoa in the olden days. I cannot see that it matters much. What we want are good roads and bridges, and to have the country thoroughly opened up. Whoever will promise to get us these boons will receive a large amount of eupport. October 1. The Guardian this morning states tbat the site for the new township on the Waihau block is fixed on the Gisborne Bide of Lake Botokaba. The township will comprise twenty sections cf one acre each, fifteen of two acres, twenty of five acres, and fifteen often acres. Other Bections will be laid off containing from 25 to 5000 acres each. The total area to be disposed of amounts to over 30,000 acres.