WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3812, 3 October 1883, Page 3

WAIROA.

[from our own correspondent.] September 29, 18SS. I notice that tho Post and Telegraph Department hore are still tinkering at the building yclept the post office. An elaborate fence is being erected in front of a tAvo-penny-half-penny building that is scarcely fit for a human family to live iv. In a few years time the Government will have to put up a neAV offico, and then all the improvements (?) Avill bo so much public money thrOAvn aAvay. _ The Rev. AY. Goodycar, ot the Church Missionary Society is about to leavo this ■district for Maketu (Bay of Plenty), to the charge of which district he has been appointed. The AVairoa Jockey Club are very late

this season in making arrangements for a »_ race meeting—in fact it Avas reported that no meeting would be held this year. A general meeting of the club is now convened, hoAvever, for tho middle of next Aveek. A great deal of time was taken up in the R.M. Court on Thursday with Police prosecutions of three native Avomen charged under Section 2 of the Vagrant Act with loiterbig in toAvn for improper purposes. Though the defendants all got oft' Avith a caution the object of the police has been served, and thoy will probably be more circumspect in the future. OAving to other (and probably more conm genial) 'attractions, the attendance at the " Mechanics' Institute on Thursday night was very limited, and the essay for the night Avas put down for the folloAving Thursday. Two other essays are announced—Hot Lakes District of Ncav Zealand, Mr Large, and tho Rights of Labor, Mr AVilliams. Mr E Waite, a local carpenter, has succeeded in starting a Sunday school at the heads for half-castes and natives. The attendance averages thirty. . Just to show the amount of business that is done in our R.M. Court hero I may mention that on Thursday last a total ot £118 Avas sued for, and £97 12s (costs mincluded) recovered. ,_,,,_ . I think Mr Hill, the School Inspector, cannot complain at the attendance of Wairoa j children at the annual examination. At r Clyde thoro are 104 children on the roll, and the attendance was 100. At Frasertown, out of _5 on the roll, 40 attended (so lam informed). I havo not heard any-

thing about the Mohaka school. Mr Hill left overland for Gisborno on Friday evening. Wo have a local acrobatic troupe performing here at present in Mayo'sHall. On Thursday night there Avas a good attendance, ancl some of the items were fairly well gone through.