ORMONDVILLE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7178, 2 June 1885, Page 3

ORMONDVILLE.

[from our own correspondent, j May 30, 1885 ; A concert — the proceeds from which will be devoted to meeting the expenses of the Bush Cricket Club— came off last Friday evening. The club had received promises of assistance from gentlemen and ladies at both Waipawa and Takapau, but at the last moment it was found that local talent was all that club had to depend on. Fortunately the local ladies and gentlemen who assisted were quite equal to the occasion, and provided a bill of fare that would have satisfied even a more fastidious audience than that which had responded to the call of the cricketers, and recalls were the order of the evening. In listening to Miss Alice Parsons, Mrs Small, Messrs Anderson, Buck, W. Parsons, and Griffiths, the audience forgot those ladies and gentlemen who had broken faith with the managing committee, and scarcely regretted their ! absence when reminded of it by a few cutting remarks made by Mr Buck when thanking the public for their attendance at the close of the entertainment. Three cheers for the ladies and gentlemen who had made the concert a success brought the gathering to an end. We are about to lobo Constable Shulz, but he will be remembered here as a brave, zealous, active officer. I feel sure that he will not be allowed to leave here without some fitting token of the esteem in which he is held by those among whom he has been so long stationed. One of the business men at Makatoku will, I believe, figure at the next Bitting of our Resident Magistrate's Court in connection ivith a sly-grog selling caee. The local option poll taken to-day resulted iv a majority of 2 to 1 against an

increase of any licenses. Some few days back a. rather gifted writer in your columns charged me with making attacks on Mr Youngman. Now, I did not intend to answer him at the time that I read his letter, as there seemed to be nothing but abuse in it — the letter which ended with a couplet that throws Milton in the shade— but I have since found a reason for noticing his remarks. He (" Fair Play ") points rather gloatingly to the fact that Mr Youngman defeated Mr Wilding in the contest for the Waipawa County Council, and makes that prove him to be popular. "Fair Play" must know by what means Mr Wilding's defeat was brought about, and he must also know that so far from Mr Youngman being popular he could not find ten householders in his immediate neighborhood to sign his certificate, but had to get some of the signatures from Makatoku, he signing a certificate for a gentleman there (perhaps in return for the favor). In conclusion, I would say that I made no attack on Mr Youngman, but that on the contrary he attacked me for publishing a fact that occurred at a public meeting, and that I do not want to drag Mr Youngman into obscurity (the lion's skin having fallen off). If "Fail Play" or any of Mr V's intimate friends do not withdraw him from the gaze of an admiring public I can have no possible reason for wishing to do so. June 1. I re-open my letter to inform yot that Aguste Peersen, the girl who waf lately charged with lunacy and discharged, has been acting very strangely and goes down to Napier by thii morning's train.