WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3678, 28 April 1883, Page 3

WAIROA.

[feoji our own coiutespondent.J April 23, 18S3

Owing to the bad weather the soiree in coimection ivitli the opening- of the Mechanics 7 Institute has been postponed to May 3. There Tire three or four passengers for this place by the .ship Rangitikci via Auckland, now duo. ' -The "Waii-oii School Committee have .declined ty nominate any one to fill the vac'uni seat on tiie Education Board, but it is generally understood that the vote of the Committee will be in favor of Mr Guy.

At a meeting of the Mechanics , Institute on "Wednesday last Mr S. Waterhousc was appointed librarian at a salary of £'10 per milium.

The wet weather, and consequent flooded state of the township flat, has had the effect of reviving the Town Board movement, and pevhapx, with a view of doiug something in the way of draining the flat, those interested will now make a move in the matter. The settlers on the north and south'side of Lahore street have, had the water over one foot deep in their houses. A main drain down Lahore street is very much needed.

The last fortnightly meeting of the Clyde Total Abstinence Society was well attended, thirty-one members being in attendance. The institution appears to be gaining in public favor. Mrs Thomas Webb, of this place, has been dangerously ill for the last fortnight, suffering from an aggravated form of fever. She is Avell attended, and progressing as well as could be expected.

There was quite a scene in St. Paul's (English) Church on Sunday night last, •when the organist, Mr J. W. Sargisson, suddenly stopped off in the middle of a hymn, and, taking his hat, left the church. This -was in consequence of tlic tuneful (?) numbers of a certain lady in the body of the church. The organist has gone to a great deal of trouble to work up a choir, and it is too bad to have the efforts of the choir drowned in screaming discords.

The "VVuiroa lock-up is in a very Lad state indeed. Tliis is what tlie Gurdian reporter says of it: —Our reporter had occasion during the wet weather lately to visit the local constable's quarters on priTute business, and was very much surprised to note the leaky condition of the building 'inhabited by Constable Shaw and his family. The r'aiii was pouring in through the roof in a continuous stream, the Moor being strewed with dishes, buckets, tubs, and other receptacles to catch thu downpour— in fact there did not appear to be a dry spot in any part of the dwtlliiig. Passing out through the passage we noticed one' of the cells, and this was in a similar deplorable state, relays of buckets being employed to keep the room moderately clear of water.

We have before this drawn attention in forcible language to the dilapidated condition of the"lock-up, but as yet the authorities have taken no steps towards replacing the present structure with one more in accordance with that spirit of humanity which should prompt them to see that people deprived of their liberty have a decent roof over their heads. It" is a pity that the Minister of Justice or Public Works could not bo "run in" one of these wet nights, or a better plan would be to appoint some Under-Sccretiiry's forty-fifth cousin to act as constable for one winter—then possibly something might be done in the matter of getting a new lock-up and police quarters built.