WAIPAWA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4702, 1 September 1886, Page 3

WAIPAWA.

[own correspondent.] This day,

The one thing occupying the attention of the local Oddfellows is the forthcoming celebration of the 13th anniversary of the Royal Abbotsford Lodge, due on the 17th instant, when sports will occupy the afternoon, and a ball of unusual extent in the evening. On Saturday night last Messrs C. Arrow, Fitzgerald, E. Harwood, A. Jull, B. B. Johnson, Watts, and Brown, were appointed the committee. Besides these, Messrs Jull, Williams and Webber, were appointed a sub-committee to prepare tho sports programme; and Messrs B. Johnson, Watts and Harwood to make arrangements for erecting a supper-tent in the front of the hall, in order to increase the available space for the visitors.

The Waipawa and Te Aute natives have challenged each other to play a match at football on the ground of the former. I think our ex-professor, Peni Pani is to captain for Waipawa.

To-night there are rival amusements. Tho Dobating Society fixed on Wednesdays as tho night mostly at liberty, but tho County Brass Band has jumped their claim, and there is also a church meeting at St. Peter's. I have received a complimentary ticket for the concert, and I want to go to the other two, but at present do not see my course. Probably the Debating Society, being the weakest, will go to the wall, and the discussion as to the genuineness of spiritualistic phenomena postponed until the following night.

I went to Kaikora yestorday, and traced over the road recently re-opened, and as I may have given a wrong impression in my last allusion to this matter, I will say what I saw. Diverging from the ordinary road to Patangata, about half a mile or so from Kaikora, was the route faintly discernable that had been taken by a pair of wheels through an open gap in a fence. We followed through four such gaps and came to a lagoon formed by stopping up the bed of a steep creek. The dam was not above threo feet wide at top, but very broad at bottom, and perhaps two chains long. The depth of water in the deepest part would probably be somewhere about 30 feet, and but for an open trench on ono side a very large extent of country would be under water. Passage over this is impossible with ordinary means without trespassing. In all seven fences are cut down and open at the present time. We looked out for the men supposed to be on watch to destroy the dam and to protect it, but, from leaving Kaikora to returning to it, we never saw a living being. Of courso the traffic will be spasmodic. I mentioned sometime ago that some Chinamen wore desirous of settling down here. They have now obtained a transfer ot Mr Gardner's leasehold proporty on the road to Waipukurau just past the native pah, and already they have got a large portion of the ground dug and ploughed. The information I gave you regarding the advent of an heir-at-law to Howell's estate created a good deal of surprise on Monday night. In it I stated that the claim came by tho 'Frisco mail, which must be incorrect if, as I was assured last night, the claimant be a shearer, who will arrive in Waipawa in the course of to-day, and intends placing himself in communication with our civic authorities at once, why or wherefore I cannot tell.

The nominations for our Town Board aro to be in on the Bth inst., when there will probably be at least two new men, besides the old members.