Waipawa.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5974, 29 October 1890, Page 3

Waipawa.

(OWN CORBEBPONDENT.)

, Tho committeo of the friendly sooieties' sports met on Monday evening. There was a g<iod attendance and Mr Shanly was called to the chair. The ground committee reported that £3 was required for improvements. Judges were appointed as foilows : -Kunninp, Messrs Newman and Nanb.; throwing hammer, &c, Messrs S McGreevy and Oi.-dkie; Mr A. Garry, starter; Mr VV". H. Bennett, assistant starter • and referee; B B-Johnson, assistant secretary. Pride of admission was fixed at Is and fid. Tbe privileges to be sold on Saturday. The 'railWay authorities aro to bo asked to grant uxciir-ion fares on 10th November. Mr Stone's tender for ottering for the bull was accepted. Messrs Obissell, Garry, Newman, Fitzgerald, Mclntyre, B. B. Johnson, and Bennett were appointed the ball committee. It wiia decided that tho procession start at 10.30 a.m. on 10th November, and that the order bo Hibernians, Oddfellows, Foresters. Mr B. B. Johnson to be mti-Nbal. '■•

Tho Helen Fergus Company, with.Baby Ogdeti, have billed the town for Fridanight with a very attractivo programme. As they succeeded so well in catching on with our people ou their last visit, it is "possible tlwre will be a good houso. There is nothing current regarding the c.unty elections worth recording, except; that owing to a. family bereavement at homo Mr C. Hall has definitely decided to stand out of nil publio offices in future, and I believe Mr Carlile is at present tho only candidate for Woodville. I could add some rumors about tho oth.r ridings, but it is hardly worth whilo ut present To-day, before Messrs Johnson and loglis, Ju-tices, John Brndie a lias Wilson, charged with drunkenness, a second time within five days, was fiued 20.-. with 2s co-te, or four days' hard labor. Tho samo, charged with stealing two bottles of whisky from tho Exchango Hotel during the temporary absence of the landlord, got three months' hard labor at Nupior. .; James Bbike, a reputed spofler, charf_ed with beingdrunk aud diHorderly in a public street, was fined £3 with ooste, or 14 days' hard labor. Tho 8-uK- person, for profane and ob-oeuo langiiafro, gut threo mouths' hard labor, the sentences to run concurrently. This was the wornt case of tho sort in my experience. Tbe man Heems to havo taken posseß-ion of the town for about an hour la-t: Dight. John Staines, charged with begging iv a publio placo at Waipukurau, was di-ohnrg-d with v caution.