EAST COAST LETTER.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 394, 21 December 1889, Page 2

EAST COAST LETTER.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Pray sit bf us, and tell’a a tele, Merry, or sad, shall it be ? Ae merry as you will. —Wxntih‘l Tain. Hintxd as mnoh, Mr Editor, in my last, it you remember, but you did your part moat indefatigably any how, ana worked the “telephone" to an affygraffy, ae tho people say. Well it's all over, the Boeotian (?) tree and independents have persisted in using their own visual organs, and Karroo I hare we ere again, with a live M.H.B. of. or belonging to, the Coast, at last. ■* Every man who once drank a pint aboil now drink quarts, and sack shall be common as water.”—(Jack Cade). Joking apart, sir, don’t yon think that Coastal we ara as likely to be well roprrsented by Coastal and Conservative Arthur as by Liberal and Cosmopolitan Bees ? I think so—us think so,—and tho election may now BI.P.

Some hundreds of Ngatiporou are passing here (Waipiro) every day en route fox tho Waerenga a hika grass fields. They an accompanied by tbelr usual impedimenta of women and babies, wonderful swage, and bundles. A veritable exodus of Ngatiporou— I suppose fully 400 have pasood hare already, and still they string along in motley caval, cade. The good folks of Waarenga-a-hlka may begin to look after their clothes linen, meat sates, and other chattels capable of annexation, and tho corner of St. Nieholaa will, I suppose, ateume its pristine activity tor the nonce.

Quito a new feature of the pretty little Waipiro village, as viewed from the sea, with its picturesque church, dwellings pooping out from umbrageous eorroundiogs. sod snug villa.like residences, io Mr Connelly's (late of Opotiki) Tawhili Hotel, private dwelling house iu contiguity to tho hostelry, and occupying a splendid site on the plateau immediately below an old Maori fortification. It is a large and commodious residence, now neat completion, and forms quite a oonepieuous land mark. Mr Connolly's many friends here wish him many and happy years within his certainly very comfortable looking domicile.

I bare recently acquired a Maori praoorip* tion which io in gnat repute on the coast ju>f now. It ie said to be a universal panaoea t< g everything from a stomach aebs to a broken leg. AU I can say, God help tbe patient. Here It ie:—Painkiller, Jacob's oil, castor oU,keroaiue t Quaniitiks are not mentioud,hai a little tel to ba taken cow and then—kia iti to kai.