Bush Notes.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6081, 23 February 1891, Page 2

Bush Notes.

[OWN COBRKSPONnENT.]

Some time, ago the trustees of Dancvirko cemetery made arrangements with Messrs Brown and Bargh, engineer and surveyors, to have the ground surveyed, laid off, and pegged into such small plots as are usually done for burial purposes. Subsequently, when a good portion of the work was done, they applied to the Town Board for a grant for net less than £30 to pay the cost of the work. With a view to meet the case, and lessen the expenses of the work, the trustees gave notice to hold a working bee, which was held on Friday, 20th inst., when ten of tbe adult headed by the Rev. E. Robertshawe aud Mr Wratt, two of the trustees,' with Mr Popplewell, head teacher of tho adjoining State school, with a strong contingent of hia light brigade (biggest school boys), about thirty of them, who all most vigorously set to work and cleared off the most of the fern. They also formed some footpaths and a hearse road through a part of tho ground. Tho extent of the ground is five acres or thereabouts. It is the intention of the trustees to put the cemetery into as good a condition as their finances will admit, so that it will bo fitting the advancing progross of the district. Considerable excitement is now prevalent in Danovirke re the election of the Licensing Commissioners. Some of our worthy publicans got a scare the other day, which put them properly on their mettle, thusly, one or two of the aspiring candidates for the honors somehow showed their hands in a very significant manner, and so the fat was thrown into tho firo, aud tbe very deuce was to pay. Three hotels out of tho five now licensed were to be unceremoniously closed up and extinguished, and their proprietors and families consequently ruined. But of course that would never do, you know; everything must be done to have theso bold aspirants tq honor on such a dishonorable basis shunted off, and relegated home to their private life. So after vainly exhausting all the available means at their disposal so as to finally- determine ou the five most suitable and safe candidates, a o-iuous of the several gentlemen most concerned in ''"o h-'Hel interests met together, to carefully re-consider the best means thai should be adopted under the untoward circumstances in order to completely avert the threatemd catastrophe lint, behold when apparently tho statu of things with them look&u its oue of.

the gentlemen present spoke and smilingly said, " Gentlemen, rejoice with me, for I can see an easy way by which you can safely get over the trouble. You know that our sex is invariably changeable and capricious, and by virtue of its training has always some axes to grind. Now, gentlemen, let us on this important occasion throw them all over, and look to the dear ladies, who from our beloved and gracious Queen and Empress downwards to her lowest honest subject, are good, impartial, trustworthy, and safe, who not only rule over men individually, but over the destinies of nations, communities, and households, God bless them. Yes, gentlmeen, I say let us turn to the ladies, and boldly nominate five candidates from among them, and you will nnd that they will be safely elected, as no one will dare oppose them." The speaker then sat down, amid profound silence. At length the meeting silently broke up and dispersed, the majority finding themselves shortly afterwards partaking of such remedies as would tend to cure them of the queer languor they felt creeping over them The public are now patiently awaiting further developments.