WOODVILLE ITEMS.

Bush Advocate, Volume IX, Issue 795, 22 June 1893, Page 3

WOODVILLE ITEMS.

.- •• - ■ '■' ! -'*'-a' • ' ' '*' ' (prom otjb correspondent.) , Mr N. Campbell expects to have ' the new sawmill at Matahiwi opened in three weeks time. The return cup match between the Woodville and Pahiutua 'football clubs will be played on Saturday. A glass-blowing exhibition given /,; here last .night was a great fraud.. „; „At the,, Courthouse o,n Monday night an, inquest was held on the late 'fire at 'Burke's' cottage;' Burke, the owner, gave evidence as to his cottage having been let to : Father Keegan, and as to unpleasantness between him undEatber Keegan. He also stated that two members of the Catholic congregation had told him he should not charge Father Keegan rent, and Birice the fire one named' O'Mara had " itdJdHhiml the Devil Bet .-fife 'to his house and timber. . Mrs O'Neill gave evidence as tc seeing the lire, and Mrs Eurpesj, stated she saw a man ride away on horseback from the burning bmlding:' T.'Fitzimmons said the 16 Catholic 'committee intended, to pay •■•' the rent,:and A. C. Seymour stated that after the fire ■ Scally, paid the ,-,. rent. ,Constable Trainor gave cvi- . dence as to finding rags saturated with kerosene, in the' timber, which had been "fired: The jury gave a verdict that the fire had been wilfully caused by some person or persons • a unknown, p ■"■:'■■ • ,■:■,:,. iThe Pahiatua Borough Council . h»ye under consideration a drainage scheme, and have also resolved to obtain a report on a proposal to bridge the Mangatainoka river. '