WAIPAWA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3266, 20 December 1881, Page 2

WAIPAWA.

(FROM OTTB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) December 20, 1881.

I cannot be responsible for accuracy of all the Information transmitted hi this eommutilQatioa, a», having cc* cepted Uave of ftbseoc© from Waipewr*

for a few day?, I was not an eye-witness of the statements advanced in a general sense.

The Resident Magistrate's Court, formerly held at Kopua, has transferred its sittings to Ormondville, the Beaeonsfield Hotel having left the deserted village of Kopua for Slakatoka, but with all the steam power available the license has been left behind, and what is an hotel without a license ? The Resident Magistrate's clerical representative has kindly favored me with the particulars of a Court held there on the 14th instant: Petersen and Olsen v. A. Thorensen, claim £14 17s 3d for goods supplied ; judgment for amount claimed with costs and interpreter's fee. A. Thoreasen v. Petersen and Olsen, a cross-action for £11 5s 4d : judgment for £7 Is 4d and interpreter's fee without costs. Estate of late P. McGreevy. per S. McGreevy, v. "W. Smith, claim £5 10s as per account delivered ; judgment for plaintiff for amount and co9t9. Four defaulters named C. Holm, A. Thorensen, P. Petersen, and C. Olsen, were summoned for rates due to the Norsewood Highway District by Ole Olsen, rate collector; the demand for the rates not having been legally made the plaintiff was nonsuited in all the cases with costa. Ormondville is at present the more central and convenient position between Waipawi* and an£i af f ords ever y comfort, except lawyers, to litigants. Oα Saturday last a man named Wilson was charged by the police under the provisions of the Cruelty to Animals Act with having fastened two horses by their bridles to a fence from 9 o'clock at night till 7 o'clock the next morning. The defendant pleaded guilty, with the extenuating circumstances that, being in an interesting condition, he had left the horses hitched to the fence, and having had an enjoyable evening had forgotten all about the irrational animals. The bench considered the effence trivial, and dismissed the case. 1 wonder whether the horses, were of the came opinion. Mr John Nicholson, of Kaikora, has become the proprietor of the Imperial Hotel, Waipawa, vacated by Mr J. Steed, who has always conducted the house as a good landlord, obliging to his customers, and taking care ot himself, like a man possessing common sense. He retires because he can afford it —that's a fact.

It is a difficult thing to get news warranted right. The day after the election, I met two electors, thorough devotees to Mr Smith's liberal views, who, with long faces, told me Mr Smith had broken a blood vessel, and was dead. On looking at them I perceived that their faces were so much scratched that they could not even smile without smarting- They were not paid agents—oh ! no —their appearance was the result of " the satisfaction they derived from the triumph of Liberal principles" (vide Mr Smith's speech on the declaration of the poll.) The Waipawa Mail informs us that the library is about to be re-established, and the Town Districts Act is to be brought into operation in this township. If Mr John Harker will take these matters up on the same liberal terms which Mr Smith says he worked for during the late election the Mail will tell the truth, and success will be the order of the day. The next County Council will afford Mr Smith M.H.R., a capital opportnnity for the practice and display of parliamentary polemics. His opponents gained a march upon him at the last meeting during his absence, and passed a resolution intended to override his notice of motion to the effect that County rates, &c, shall be appropriated to a general County fund instead of each riding having the absolute control of the rates raised in its own district. In principle Mr Smith is certainly right, but the practical effect has not the confidence of a majority of the councillors sufficiently to make a trial.

Sports for the season are now enjoying all the attention of those who usually cater for the Christmas pleasures of the Waipawa population.