Notes from the West.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 545, 16 December 1890, Page 3

Notes from the West.

[fbom our own correspondent J Mabaetaha, Dec. 13, A great and lamentable deficiency in the virtue of charity oemg characteristic of most of the inhabitant? t>f this ‘errestnal sphere, 1 have little doubt that you have attributed a silence which, on my part, has extended over a period of time more extensive than usual, to laziness: tut it is not so; the reason is merely a constitutional aversion to active exertion, aggravated by the recent pronounced reaction consequent upon the excitement of the general election. Thia excitement, I might mention, did not soar to any stupendous height at this end of the Hawke’s Bay electorate, the contest partaking too much of the nature ci a walk over, except perhaps in the minds of those few, those Liberal few, who bad b<en “ reared on ” the same political hash as the Irishman who expresseu himself to the effect that if there was a Government he was agin it.’ 1 The result of the election on your side of the Am river was received with considerable astonishment, end gave rise to some heated

arguments. Pakowhai Station has been favored with splendid weather for shearing opera ions, which are being conducted there with as such rapidity as the somewhat restricted else 0t the woolabed will permit. The operators are aborigine,, Haymaking and harvesting are being briskly proceeded witb on Wairekaia, and when tier an completed ths shearing of lambs wit* Soameuee. Mr Gardiner came out here thia afternoon and conducts divine service in the School to-morrow at 11. Should any of your readers desire to combine a b Itcay trip witb a bit of spurt they will have a chance to do so by going to tbe Nubaka races, which are to be held on or about tbe beginning of the New Year, The meeiiog is Under the auspices of ogives, the fields are generally large though tbe slakes ate not; but they ail go tor tbe money, and the scene is an inteiesliog one to tbe student of human nature. Tbe journey is not difficult, and tbe Monery along tbe Ugbia road (which is in fair rihdition at this time of the year) is lovely, would recommend intending travellers from Gisborne to reach the Murewai Hotel by tbe •feeing el the first day—this they can do if they leave town at 6 p.m, Starting thence at fair time next moruiug they can reach Mabia Hotel and ride over next day to Kubaka for tbs races—or if their tastes otherwise incline I am Shrptbat Mr Beodall would be glad to show them some of the natural curiosities of ths peninsular.