Teviot News.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 701, 10 November 1909, Page 5

Teviot News.

(Own Correspondent). Very heavy ruin fell here on Saturday and for about halt' an hour at midday it poured. The severest of the downpour was confined to the north eud of the borough, which experienced a mild waterspout, but the whole district received a thorough soaking. The poll of ratepayers taken on the 3rd on the proposal of the Borough Council to borrow £IOOO for water and lighting resulted in o'J voting for the proposal and 37 against. There were two informal votes. At the ordinary monthly meeting of the council on Thursday it was decided that ({notations be obtained from the various foundries f>r the necessary piping and that prices bo also obtained from Mr John Ewing. The cutting of the race to bring in the additional right of water will be uu lertaken at an early date. An old and much-respected resident of this disirict iu the person of Mr .John Stringer died suddenly oa the evening of Sunday, 31st ult. ' He was just going to bed vrhew his wife, who was already in bed, heard him give a slight moan. She immediately rose to assist him and found he had expire:l. The deceased gentleman, though suffering for some time from rheumatism, was otherwise in good health and spirits and had been at work on the previous day; There was not perhaps iu the whole of the district a mm who stool higher iu the regard and esteem of his fellows than the late Mr Stringer. Of a quiet and uuassumiug disposition, he earned by his very pleasing nature the respect of every man, woman and child on the road, aud his familiar form will long be missed. For a period of 19 years right up to his death Mr Stringer was iu the employ of tiie Tuapeka County Council, which possessed iu him an honest, conscientious servant. Much sympathy is felt for his widow aud family, all of whom are grown-up, in their sudden bereavement. The funeral took place on Wednesday, the cortege being one of the longest ever seen here. Rev. Mr Fltchett oliiciated.

Another old identity died suddenly on the 3rd in Mr Peter Gihuartin, but better known as Peter Martin, lie was employed in a sluicing claim at Campbell's Creek' and returning to work alter lunch became ill. He was taken back to the house, where he soon afterwards expired. Tlie body was brought into Roxburgh, where an imprest was held, a verdict being returned in accordance with the medical testimony. The funeral took place on Saturday, Rev. Father Morkane officiating. The deceased was well-known in tins district, where lie has been principally employed as a farm baud. He was a man of high literary attainments, and is supposed to have ouce been a teacher in tlie early days of the West Coast.