ELECTION TROUBLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1753, 13 October 1887, Page 3

ELECTION TROUBLES.

The following correspondence has been handed to ns with a request that we would publish it. We are not prepared to decline to do so, comment in connection with the circumstances having appeared in out columns. " But we much regret that tlie matter should have been reopened, and trust'that^ no further correspondence will be offered in connection with the above, but that, as far as election [troubles are concerned; ••Bygones may be bygones."

11 Hawera, October 11, 1887.— Mr. Felix McGuire.: Dear Sir, — I beg to inform you (bat at a meeting of Baman Catholics, held in Hawera op September 30th, 1887, the following resolution was proposed and carried unanimously :—' That this meeting tender to My. and Mrs. McGuire and family tb,eir heartfelt sympathy at the har«h^treatment received by them at the hand%.of tbe Key. Father Mulvihill, on Sunday, September lQtb, 1887.'— 1 am, ■ir, yours obediently, John Mobrissey, Hon. Sec" ■" Hawera, October 18, 1887.— Mr. John Morrieseyi Dear Sir,— l am in receipt of your latter. of the 11th instant, with copy of, resolution passed by injr fellow Boman^Cajrholicß, . expressing sympathy for r family and myself under the treatment extended to as by the Revi Father Mulvibill recently, on Sunday, the 19th September, -1887. It is very cheering to ns to find, notwithstanding the harsh treatment meted out to us on that occa■ion by tli© rev. gentleman, that we still have the sympathy of our fellow Catholics in the districts It is on such occasions as ibis that expreijions of kindly regard have a particular^a^?^^- 61 ]* 0184 " 011 **© troa^^nTpT^rof life with less regard for the Ahorofland sharp stones with; which it iß'rtrewn.^nWU^ydn'ldndly convey, to' our ftUoW'Gatbolios who p&sea'this refo-. „ lutiovethtfoartfcfr thanks and- gratitude of myself and family? In time we hop©

the painmlvsceue of- Sunday, Hhe 19th Septe&beKwill Ifade -from .our Memory, and I assure, .you tbe kind expression of sympathy we have, received' will do much to hasten that time.— l am, dear sir, your very grateful servant, F. McGuibe."

Tbe season for trout fishing in- Hawera district opens tomorrow. Up to the present only a few licenses have been applied for.

From a letter received in town we learn that at one time Mr. P. Galvin's life was .almost despaired of after his accident, bathe is now pronounced out of danger and- likely soon to recover. The injury, though known to be serious, was not understood to have been 60 nearly fatal as now appears.

Mr; Geo., Howe of Wanganui has ientered into arrangements with Mr. J. Meikle for faking over the Commercial jHotel. . The valuation of Btock and furniture has not yet been agreed upon, | butxent and other terms have been settled. Mr 7 Howe, we hear, was at one time landlord otthe Rutland Hotel Wanganui.

,A full attendance of Masons is requested at th^lod'ge meeting this evening. Tbe nominations for officers for the ensuing year 'will be received, and passingand raising will also have to be undertaken. With these important duties before them, every member of the order should make an effort to be present.

Mrs. Eobinson, who for the past four years has been favorably known as a dressmaker to many ladies in Hawera and the surrounding district, opens on Saturday in a general drapery business in the premises formerly occupied by Mrs. Dunne in Prin-ces-street. A new stock of fashionable goods has been procured, of which inspeciton is invited.