WAIPAWA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8437, 9 August 1889, Page 3

WAIPAWA.

[FKOM OUR OWN COItRESrONDENT.I

August 8, ISB9. The Town Board, at its meeting last evening, resolved to have a (ire bell erected on one of Mr Bibby's sections (kindly granted free of charge) at a cost not exceeding £10. The solicitor to the Board, Mr F. OB. Loughnan, wrote stating that it was compulsory for honseholders to employ the nightsoi'l contractor, and that a defence sf "not employed" •would not avail them. The other business was merely formal.

In connection with the question answered tiy the solicitor, it does appear strange that any householder should desire to get put of paying the trifle per •week at which the service ■will .be effectually carried out. Yet such, I believe, is the purpose of some few in this town. There is one thing very certain, and that is that the Board wiil Btrictly enforce the bye-laws bearing on

this matter. There was an affiliation case at Court yesterday, and it lasted from 4.30 in the afternoon till 11 p.m. The facts of the case are briefly these. A young girl named Elizabeth Ireland gave birth to a, child in June last, and she stated, after some hesitation, to her mother that one .Robert Jones, a station hand, was the father. A case was brought against Jones, and after a very careful hearing it seemed that not Jones, but a relative of

the girl, had been intimate with the girl. The Bench, in dismissing the cose, said no doubt Jones had been selected as a victim, and that the evidence oi the prosecuUix was not corroborated in a single particular. An attempt at eviction made by Mr Humbling has caused a great deal of talk here. It appears that the tenant whom he wishes to get rid of paid his rent up to within a few weeks, and since the-high-handed proceedings has tendered the balance. However, the landlord wanted the tenant (a man named Masters) out, and he started by taking out the windows. Masters replaced these with sacks. . Then Hambling bepan to remove the roof, when Masters objected, and they nearly caaie to a set-to with a shovel and axe. Wiser counsels prevailed, and the landlord retired, threatening vengeance, This morning_ he returned, and down came the chimney, the shingles were torn off the roof , and the house rendered almost uninhabitable. All this time the unfortunate wife of Masters and her little children have been huddled together in the wrecked house. The weather is severely cold, and the frosts are biting at night. W hat the poor creatures will do I cannot say, but the feeling is very strong against Hambling, Surely he has gone farther than the law permits !