MOERAKI.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2686, 26 January 1881, Page 2

MOERAKI.

(from x correspondent). Last night the annual meeting of householders to elect a new school committee for the year was held in the •choolhouae ; Mr J. Culling in the chair. The following gentlemen were chosen aa th« incoming committee— Messrs J. Calling, D. Munro, A. Stewart, H. M'Leod, J. Simmon*, Jas. Kemp, and M. Henderson. The balauoe sheet showed a credit balance of L 3 63 63 to start the year with. Harvesting will be in full swing in a couple of days, The crops promise to be «boat th© usutl average, though the grten

linnets hare been working wonders among the yellow hcadt of corn. .According to your local contemporary the meeting held at Hampden last Saturday night was attended by 200 ratepayers. Let your readers take this aim grano salis, and » very big pinch too. It is not that the gentleman's "facs" (sic) are so wrong as he would haye people btlete, but as far as I know there is only one living personage who claims for himself the titles of immaculate and infallible. Has our " Tillage Hampden " (?) aspirations in the direction of these attributes t Little beginnings have great ends, and doubtless his getting seventy householders declared a borough and himself mayor, is a small beginning ; but he should begin to put the brake on — and that quickly too, or people may soon do more than laugh at his loquacity. Jan. 25.