Wairoa.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 41, 18 February 1901, Page 3

Wairoa.

(From Our Own Correspondent),

Wairoa, Thursday. At the meeting of the Council on Friday, Mr Sinclair, the Chairman, announced that ho was resigning the Chairmanship and his seat as one of the membei-s for the Mohaka Riding. Mr Sinclair is about to assume the management of the Awamati Estate, recently purchased by Mr W. F. Shaw, Clerk to the Council.- Councillors expressod regret at Mr Sinclair’s resignation, he having proved himself an efficient Chairman. At the same meeting the subject of a new Council Chamber was discussed, Councillors being of opinion that a Jiew building was urgently needed, D.s.d., as usual, being the only difficulty. The present building, an unsightly barn of a place, was originaily built for a drill shed. Dry rot has of late years overtaken it (rather a suggestive fate for a Council Chamber), and members of the staff and Councillors occasionally do the disappearing trick through the floor.. Our local steamer, the Tangaroa, is running an excursion to Napier to enable residents to see the Imperial troops. She left at 11.30 to-night, with probably the largest passenger list since she took up tho running.

I have only tune at this writing to note that Miss Hewitt (Gertie) was married to-day (Wednesday) at Paul’s Anglican Church, to Mr Storey, of Palmerston North. The Rev. J. Hobbs was the officiating clergyman, assisted by Mr Butterfield. The church was crowded. Tho presents were numerous and valuable. I will send a detailed account of this event in my next. The bride and bridegroom leave on their honeymoon trip by the Tangaroa to-night. There is a considerable area under maize this year, and the crop promises to be a heavy one. Last year the natives planted very little maize, and even that little was in most instances a failure.

Sheepfarmers are looking glum at the doubtful prospect of getting any “burns ” this season. This is the month as a rule when fires rage furiously over the country, but the continued wet weather we have been experiencing has been an effectual bar to anything of the sort, and unless we have a long spell of dry and hot weather the prospects in the burning line are decidedly bad.