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Bruce Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 42, 30 May 1910, Page 5

There is a prospect of a decline in tho wholesale price of flour Bhortly. On account of the Dunedin Winter Show this week tho usual meeting of tho Farmers' Club has been put oiihfoc a week. Mr Harvio, of Moonlight, who was recently mulcted in £125 damages for slandering a schoolmaster namad Wad-, doll, at Moonlight, was formorly a resident of Lovells Flat district. Ho proposes appealing against the verdict. Subscribers to tho Toko. A*hen*uin were agreeably surprised on Saturd y evening to find that about forty new books hud beon placed on the sholvos, The catalogue shows that iho to al numbor of books in the Athenayjin is 2219. A serious coach accident occurred early on Saturday morning between Slope Point and Waikawa, whereby threo horses were drowned. Tho coach contained a party of Waikawa residents returning from a dance at Slope Point. On entering the ford at Six*niilo River at about 6 a.m., when everything was quite dark, the leader of the four horses became restive turned round, and fell into deep water, dragging the others with it, Threo of the animals wore drowned, but tho occupantß escaped without a wetting, except one in* dividual, who, took a " header " in his excitement. The 1033 is estimated at £l2O.