EAST COAST LETTER.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 318, 29 June 1889, Page 2

EAST COAST LETTER.

(OWN CORRESPONDENT.—" NARRATOR.”) 4 Prav Mt by us And tells* a tale, Merry, or sad sliall it be ? As merry as you will. —Winters’ Tale. ■ Waipibo, June 25. Little noteworthy has eventuated since my last. The Australia and Southern Cross from Wellington and Auckland respectively, arrived on Saturday last, the latter landing cargo only for this port, while Messrs J. N. Williams, Thornton, and O'Meara (.urveyor of your town; disembarked from the former. Mrs Talbot and child also embarked lot the Northern City. We have had a series of gales with ooploue rainfall lately, and the roads are in their usual winter condition cf bog, and quagmire. I suppose the old formula still obtains In your metropolis relative to these wretched " highways and byeways.” “ Well, nothing can be done now, you know," and when summer comes round again, and nature has effected a little road making of her own—- “ Coast roads, indeed 1 why they are excellent.” Not the least gratifying incident of my re. cent experience has been a renewal of acquaintance with my old friend, and'oftentimes fellow traveller, Mr John Walker, the tireless, affable, and obliging East Coast mailman. " Fresh ns a daisy,” and coming up smiling af'er each encounter with the boisterous elements, he really seems to thrive on mud, rain, and constant equestrianism, throe incongruous items truly, and hardly conducive, one would think, to the particularly sound mind and sound body which everybody knows characterise the subject of this par. But it is not all beer and skittles even with our philosophic mailman. Parcel post is one of his grievances; cadets on sheep stations another. That ia to say, not these anomalous genilsmen themselves in propria personae, but the bulk of newspapers, magazines, &e., Ao., which ar. supplied to them by admiring relatives in the Old Country. Ho waa heard saying .omej thing about “ measles ” as being abate the nuisance of bulky packages, if valent, How applied, he didn’t state. M Our Indefatigable Constable Gerrard (Kake), now stationed here, ran in a young laroani.t last night ata late hour, for annexing a shawl from a tent. As it is not the latter's first offence, probably condign punishment will follow, as wc have two J. P's, here just now. The young fellow being respectably connected, as the coast goes, I refrain from publishing hia name—at present. Poor Captain Bena, a young Portugast skipper of small craft, formerly trading be. tween Gisborne and Auckland, has been drowned somewhere about Tairua, up north, De mortuls nil nisi bonum, is a good motto, and though somewhat mercurial of tempera, ment, the poor drowned sailor was a good, natural, free handed fellow after all. Thera will be more than one pair of wet ayes in Gisborne, I ween, when the sad news reaches their owners. I remember meeting him once at a quality Ball, near a balcony which “ commands a most picturesque view of the Turanganui and the Bay." It was by no means a badly got up affair. There were plenty of ladies, well-dressed, and sociable, refreshments ad lib, and Sena in his glory, Everything, and person was charming— Bays Aaron t > Moses, A garden ot roses; Boys Mosc-s to Aaron, All roses of Sharon.