WAIPAWA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4860, 9 March 1887, Page 2

WAIPAWA.

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■— •■-■- This day. iuve sinners camo from Woodville yesterday evening on their way to Napier gaol. ThoyTrcre—F. Bradbury, Jas. Ready, and R. Healey, convicted of sly-grog selling in the Gorge. Messrs Carlile and Hag"en fined them £50 each, or in default one month's hard labor. The other two criminals were, going up for being drunk and disorderly, but I did not learn their names.

There are great complaints iv the Bush of the scarcity, or atany rate the insufficient supply of trucks, and requisitions for thorn appear to be useless. I was assured that the iollowing unique official reply was sent to one person whoso hands'wero waiting tho means of transit for liis goods •—» # e ',J, making them for you!" It is strange that these complaints continue so loa" The Maoris about Tahoraite°'appear to have grown a large quantity of 4ainthis season.. maeWne beck The original contract of the Woodville lme has been ready for opening for about a The 14 candidates for the Norseweod .Licensing Committee..are eaid to be divided thus:—Messrs Magnusseu, Lycett, Pcdersen, iJJunn, .and Augustin are willing- to grant - licenses iv the district;/Messrs xoungman, Martensen, Ericksen, and Jjund are in favor of a licensed house "on .the hill,"-that is, rioar tlieir : own places; and Messrs, Hansen,- Wahl, Fredericksen,' and 'Harding are good templars., -This will be .a hotly contested election, andcomosoff onTuesdayneit; ~ As,l.informed you by wireMossra Gampbell, Cowper, Hall, Monteith 'and Smith, the old committee wore declared elected, yesterday; a.t awu a ooateet,

In the course of my pejigrinations re* oenijj-j I saw the following notice on the door of Itlie leading , store in a township not 1000 MleS3 from hore:— u On and after Sunday next no business of any kind will be transacted at eitherof the stores in ! On enquiry I found that what was really meant was a, cessation of Sunday trading, and npt a total cessation of business as statedr-i"k ■-■■' -Some unwonted firo has taken possession * of thei inhabitants of the Porangahau district, for in response to a local demand the County Chairman has decided to graut a polling placo at Wallingford._ . . Talioraite does not often yield an item of news, but a great scandal occurred there on Sunday evening, when one of the railway hands named Kobertson offered to sell his ■wife—his old woman he called her—with whom he had lived happilly, so he said, for the last eighteen yeaw, together-with his tsnt and belongings. Tho purchaser was one of his mates named Fraser, and the consideration -was £7 cash, an 1.0. U. for a like sum, and a horso and fittings. The bargain concluded, the dealer rode away to seek fresh fields and pastures new, while his wife nothing loth, accepted the position, Battling down comfortably with her new loijl. and master.; On Monday night a number of his mates determined to surround the tent, eieze the going man, and duck him in tho creek ; but when they got there they found him away, and so amused themsjlves by, cutting and slashing the tent, and upsetting things generally. Whilst so on-o-aoed the intended victim came along, but Searing the noise, concluded what was up, and so kept out of the way till they had retired. Yesterday ho expressed himself very angrily and I quite expect that there would be further trouble there last night. There is considerable excitement about Tahoraite and Woodville about a supposed «-old reel in the.Ruahino r.mges beyond Maharahara. I saw one of the prospectors yesterday, who is sure they havo got a good thing on, and he gavo me some quartz specimens which he called the casing, but I can see no gold in them. He said they had sent the best away somewhere, but are going to get a ton of stuff and send it away to be crushed. I certainly do not fee! greatly impressed at present, but as the subject is one of interest to many, I thought it well to tell yon all I could about it.