MASTERTON NOTES.
■■"'•;■.'■ - .'.-: ——;' ; o — '"!':-'•'■ ■ : It appears that certain horses; poisoned ■■-■■■•.- at Miki .Miki, were being driven in a wagon, belonging tt> Messrs. Miller and ■ Beattie, of Masterton, when tho vehicle ■ ' broke down, and the horses were turned out in a paddock for the night. They , browsed on a poisonous weed, and two . ; •.. , of. them,, valued at .£BO, succumbed.. ; ■ '..■■.'■ One settler in the Masterton district : is reported to have lost 1000 hoggets.this ' ..: season. -The mortality has been very .' ■considerable in all parts. ■ - :-' Four, marriages, twenty-five births, and .*'-."■' eeven deaths were registered in Slaster- '." - ton.during the month of August.. •..- ■ : ■ Onlyone bankruptcy has been recorded in Wairarapa during the past , month. There have, been .fifteen for the ."."•;■ eight months of the year, as compared ■',;.'■ with nineteen for' the same period last '.-'■'.■ /year. ■ '. ■ ..-■•-.." '.'■.;
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 910, 1 September 1910, Page 5
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128MASTERTON NOTES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 910, 1 September 1910, Page 5
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