OTIRA NOTES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13376, 18 March 1909, Page 7

OTIRA NOTES.

' , (special to "the pbess.") -.■ t> OTIRA, March 16. •_ The Post Office is now making raDid oJ. Progress. The men whose tender was ;,' *«oepted aro required to spend the . - jP°J e of their time at it. and not to $ - *>. it after working hours, as a mis- - print in the Inst Notes would seem to .', Msert. In the event of rain 6topf. P« n R out-of-door operations, they are < « liberty to return to the shed at tho , tunnel till the weather is again fine. ' .A painful accident occurred to one «_ the. carpenters to-day. He was ■,l an atlze under a low beam, : Winch caught the tool, and the blow ;_ jt consequence fell on his foot, inflict- ' S 8 *!? T A~ nasty cut - He was taken '." j Greymouth Hospital, where tlie \ "P.™ 1B progressing favourably. wght rain fell this evening, promis- _, ]"8 a cessation of the drought, which : "*» been threatening to deprive us of .. «wr water supply. The sky is ovor««t, so that there is hope of a good : JJwnpour. A bush fire in progress •ome six miles from Otiro should havo ■ t»* n 1 oy this evening's mois- - we. Goat Creet; is now quite dry.