EAST COAST LETTER.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 369, 26 October 1889, Page 3

EAST COAST LETTER.

[fjrom our own correspondent.]

Pray sit by us, and tell’s a talc, Merry, or sad, shall it be ? As merry as you will.

Winter’s Tale. -

K-thino further has transpired re the con. flagration of the Matahia wool shed, which is generally set down to spontaneous combustion, Timber has however been sent for, and another equally spacious building will soon occupy the site, the full force of station artificers (some eight or ten in number) being about to be put on, to complete the new shed in time for shearing, which by the way has begun at Takapau and other inland out stations.

For a wonder we all got our Saturday's Standard by last mail, and I think the cause of former irregularity is revealed at last. The papers by some means or other were in the Tologa Bay mail. How they came there is a mystery known probably only to the person who put them there. Your humorous sketch of the disastrous campaign and repulse of the Colonial Forces at the Chathams has been well received up here, even the natives appreciating the extremely ludicious “ situations ” of the ill fated expeditionaries, and the advertisers ought to be pleased with the large circulation given to their announcements. Some time ago, I inveighed against the present system of Maori education as being practically useless. I now forward you a literary curiosity—being the production of a young fellow who has been through the usual curriculum of school and college, and poses as being educated, and accomplished in all the lore of the pakeha. It was forwarded me by the Native Medical Officer here who said he couldn’t resist the temptation to publish it, it being too good phonetically, and otherwise. I suppress the signature. The writing you will perceive is legible, and good, better than my copy sometimes, I am afraid. Here it is. literatim :— “ The old man take those pill last night, they dint open his power! The worst part he feel pain now his back I cant oome down there the day I might come afternoon," etc, Comment ia needless. I regret exceedingly and no’e the tons taken by the C.C.C. towards Mr Hale, of Tolago Bay, and other representatives of real grievances from various parts of the Coast. Also, especially am I disgusted with the fulsome expressions used by that eccentric at the same time to Mr Woodbine "..hnson, No doubt that gentleman values their complimentary rot at its proper price. But in what has Mr Hale offended, that his communication should be received with undeserved contempt. lean assure you, Mr Editor, that the repairs to drains, &c., which he speaks of, are quite as much needed, and more so,than many metalling* and gravellings In the neighborhood of the County Council, or County Councillors’ residences. Is is not so long ago that several cases (one fatal) of typhoid and enteric fever took place within a few hundred yards of these drainse and with the forthcoming warm weather, and noxious exhalations, a recurrence ia by no means improtable. The C.C.C incur a grave responsibility by treating such communications with contempt, A committee meeting of the VVaipiro Sports Management took place at the Tawhiti Hotel recently, when both athletic and equestrian events were embodied in an excellent programme. The horse racing competition will however be confined to Te Awanui on the one hand and Anaura on the other. There will be no trained horse racing, and although the prizes promise to be more than respectable, it is determined to go in for sport pure and undefiled, to the exclusion of the gambling element, which so often disgraces such meetings. Among other events, a “ cigar and umbrella race ” is enumerated—the riders, (owners of horses up), at the signal to start, to light a cigar, expand an umbrella, and get away. The cigar, must be alight and the umbrella still open on arrival at the winning poet.