East Coast Letter.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 393, 19 December 1889, Page 2

East Coast Letter.

[fBOM OUB OWN COBBEBPQNDKNT.] Waitibo, December 10, Had another heavy gale ot wind from N.H, Everything stoppad again pro tem. Bheariog suspended at present; hope co begin for about tbe aix'h time, to-morrow (Utb). Owing to rain, Walplro sports ot ell aorta postponed from Boxing end Naw Years days,— Have got into bad bread with Australia'! people because I said they l*tt soma peeton* gera behind. Quits true, however t “Kaka* offered to taka them off, but paaeengers wouldn't pert, and the steamer as-parted, Tokomaru people art growling too. Old skipper there says, e.s. A., above mentioned, has been Diet frequently without landtag lately, much to the inconvenience ot realflanta, tor no earthly raaeon that b« oaa eee. Par> heps there might have been • maritime one, however. I am alweye inslined to bt charitable. Mr Arthur will be largelv, it not uoanimonaly, aupported here —Mr Stewart, ot your town, ie Mid to ba * wool classing ’ (?) at Awanui, with aucceae I believe, but though the fi-teeaa are heavy, the sheep are unfortunately few — Tuts has returned from Opotlkl, and expresses great confidence in hie ultimate success ot tar.—Walplro,' 14thi I avail myself ot an opportunity to send you tbe latest, Polling passed of! yesterday without excitement, only one old gentlemen, who shell be nameless, having drunk Mr Arthur's health too many times, contributing to H.M.G. ravenna this morning, through the medium ot the Icoal J.P s.—Mors rain, and I fear shearing again suspsnded pro tern, though tasd every whan la megnitsoent. Mr Campbell Thompson, Bhaep .napestor, it on a visit w tba dletria*.