Notes from the West.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 529, 8 November 1890, Page 3

Notes from the West.

[TBOM OVB OWS COBBBSFOSDBNI.I Mahaktahj, Nov. 5. The desire to chronicle only what might be ol interest tilths hulk ol your readers, baa prevented m»4tom spoiling dean paper since the production of wharybu Were pleased, with gentle irony, to term “ poetry coupled with the fact that the said poetry gave serious umbrage to a certain person who applied to himsmf the remarks anent veibal a-rocitree, hurled at certain delinquent quadrupeds. Exemplification of the old pi ovex b' about the sap and the head, I suppose. . Shearing has been proceeding at Warekara Station for more than a week, its progress however being retarded by the inclemency of the weather, which tc-day seems to have made a mistake, and retrograded into Juiy. I am informed that snow has fallen on the Wakapunake range. —- ■' "" Though the general election is now drawing close, but lr tie excitement concerning it now prevails. However.. aU we are expecting a visit from Captain Ruisell shortly, I shall probabably be able to give you more information on that subject in my next. We are to have a polling booth here, and Te Aral was mentioned as a probable locality tor another, but I have seen no notice of its appointment. The match at quoits, of which I spoke in a former commui.iea ; ion, is to come off on Saturday, the Bth inst. It is attracting a good deal of attention locally, and it is expected that a good many visitors will come Mt to view the contest. It will be well worth witnessing, as bo,h playeis are nearly fi.ai rate, and the games »iil be stubbornly contested- I expect lb see the local man beat the Visitor, but be won’t have any thing to spare. The Insprctor of bcboola visited the local geydamy last Monday week, it being the first on bis list. Hie report has, 1 believe, been forwarded to the Committee, but i have not yet seen it. A large Mormon ga'henng took place at Murewai laat Kuirdgy. at whiob, Xs at most gatherings wbem natives asaJmuely. represented, the consumption of food was cunBiderable. The reel object of the meeting was, I presume, to strengthen th.Tr petition, and increase the number of converts. . Having their religionto al. others, and uni, Quenced — as ol course is ihe cgss-by any ideas of po<eftle mundane advantage, Abais aim is certainly a high ano h lyeae, & u ‘ ‘best Moi mon preachers an somewhat lacking in courtesy when they tell those whom they wish to convert that any other form of religion than theirs leads oniy to— web—a piece where the climate is a lot warmer than this, and when Ifiay forbid Utoe* v M%oriee whom they have converted, to.send toeir children to the State acbool*. Wba. they have to tea. from that, I do not know, uuleu it be that superstition oaauoi walk hand in band wiiu the enlightenment born of education and cufrura.