OUR WAIRARAPA LETTER.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 66, 28 August 1880, Page 2

OUR WAIRARAPA LETTER.

■ • : GB^YTow^;Migast^22i 1880; Since Thursday last; the yeather here has been soineth'ng terrific. The wind, has: ; been, and as I write, still ebnbinues jto be ainiott a hurricane, accompanied most of the time, with a heavy driving rain, and' -%hich;- has almost • sdccoeded m drivings all [signs j of h uman beings from the ■tree.fcs to seek the more genial fireside ; .and even there one can scarcely feel as though he' ware_ at .home— :fpr twhati with the din of the howling wind and* pattering rain on the roof of the domicile, combined v with the rocking and swaying and creaking of the, latter, one.is almost led to the belief that he is ; onceagairi on the briny wave of the jßay of Biscay.la reality, as I write I feel something approaching ■'» similitude to, and which has again- brought to "my memory, -a : kip to Foxton m 'that; mosfr-delightful-cockle-shell callec 1 the s ,i. Huia. \ How well I can remember tjie crbssingof that bar oh erit«iring the ManaVratu River, and how well can I call to mind the rudenes? of Boreas; m agitating the water into almost a foam, and causing the wavei to roll m such " grandeur/ as some^of m^ sailors were pleased to •term it* I?or my p^r^ however, I could see no grandetir m such ; a; scene.:; I,aa did: most of .my .feUp^passengers, atf tended strictly to our own affairs ; we ; had >little tlmejtOj think of c aught else, and seriously speaking, I th in k tha t was about the J^rst time iiT ipy life that I saw a number of people^ assembled togethior arid everyone minding their own .business. '.':-.;.' '..'.. In spite of the weather yesterday our Gxeytown Footballers met an opposing team from Masterton and Cartertphvcombined. The game wa» played m real :go6d ; Bpirifc,' it ,is true ; and each team worked .hard— -too hard—^to score tjie other. Footballing; must surely, be an attractive; sort of game, when men will venture to spe!nd naif a day at m '.the pouring rain, "and the wind at a hurricane; pools of water m many places, from six to twelve inches; deep, and the ground--w»ll, it was soft certainly, if not clean. JA.t th'e close' of this most enjoyable game, it became a difficult-matter for one to distinguish : thenr from ■mummies constructed of , mud 1, When we see a drunken* matt npundering m the mud and water, we laugh, and say, " What a fool!" But what must we say when we see thirty or more perfectly sober arid stfeadygoiug map doing: tlio same thing? --In the ineb riate's case we well knQW that; drink was the cause of his so begriming himself, but not .so\ with sober men, Are they— can they be sane ? : -At JCaatertbn' the other day, agentleman, named €r. A. Johnson, Isolde ing a very good position m -life", was arrested on the charge ;of embezzling monies from the E.M. Court to the a^ouui; of 14? §k 5% thx>k qtv

the evidence against Mm went to prove that he had been extremely careless m tho. matter of keeping his books, but there appeared to be doubt as to irhether the money had been appropriated, and so the information was dismissed. " -Quite a sensation was created for a short time m Greytd^t on. Thursday , afternoon last, ; Mr. 0ii n 's cab had -&■*, retui nßd frpm it* usual trip to the JRauway Station^ and the driver wag m the act of unhooking the traces, whea the horses took fright, and made off to tho southern end of the town at a &ost furious rate, all at tempts at stopping them m their mad career being fruitless, untiL they ( reached the Itising Sun Hotel, about a.mile distant fnom, whence tneyjstarted/ Strange; to. say, not the least damage was done to either cab op horses, nor to anyone on the street.