Notes from the West.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 455, 17 May 1890, Page 2

Notes from the West.

[raou oua own coaaasaoNDKNT.] MaEAETAHa, May 15. You may possibly ba astonished. Mr Editor, to hear that we have not suffered from drought lately*— (the country,! mean—not the members of this community), that in fart that erratic genius the Clerk of the Weather has succeeded in giving us a very fair imitation of a deluge in a small way of business, We have been exercising our minds as to the best method of protecting our bodies against tha universal humidity to which they have been exposed on those occasions when business forced us from the shelter at our domiciles. A friend ioformed me that he always out the leading articles out of a local journal and used them instead of cork soles in his boots, “ baoanaa,” he remarked, with an accent of unutterable pathos, “ they were tha driest things be knew of.” I regret to say the man still lives. I intended to have sent you an account of the annual meeting of householders for the election of a School Committee,which took place on the 28th ultimo, but reserved it as an item for this budget. I am rejoiced to be able to report that it passed over without bloodshed,

the incoming committee electing Mr Reginald H. Image asjOhsirman for the ansuing year, after the ordinary business had been gone through. A diatingolshsd visitor has recently been staying at tha Murswai Hotel, Ha was travelling incognito, but acme inquisitive person overhauling his baggage, having caught eight of a partially defaced label, bearing the inscription Mr Th-m-s O-11-ni, at once surmised his identity, and a deputaion was hastily organised to wait on the distinguished . individual, whose fame had J (receded him, even to these remote and solated territories. When, however, the deputation arrived, bearing with them a rail—forcibly removed from an adjoining fence—that useful domestic utensil familiarly termed ,a billy, filled with a dark and viscous fluid, much used by " those who go down into the easin ships”—a few brushes—purloined, I grieve to say, from the store of an adjacent runholder—and a bag of feathers, collected from some pigeons recently plucked by ths landlord—ihey found that lhe gentleman, to ] do honor io whom they had assembled, had— I O oi ! C. ■ -o 1