WAIPAWA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4676, 2 August 1886, Page 3

WAIPAWA.

[OWN correspondent.] This day. A very interesting event occurred in the Abbotsford Lodge of Oddfellows on Saturday night, when there was a summoned meeting, and an unusually large attendance. After the ordinary lodge business had been finished, the N.G., Bro. A. Guy, presented a handsome gold medal to P.P.G.M., Martin Collett, in accordance with a resolution of the lodge, "formeritorious services." In doing so Bro. Guy expressed the great pleasure it gave him to carry out the behest of the lodgo towards one of its worthiest Past Grand officers as a token of the esteem in which he was held. Ho added his personal congratulations on tho honor, and hoped Bro. Collett would long live to. wear it. Bro. B. B. Johnson added his congratulations and referred to Bro Collett as one of thef oundcrs of the lodge, its father audfirstchairman, and to the active part he had alwaystaken, and the nealhe had shown in promoting its interests and welfare. Among other benefits it was indebted to him for obtaining from Mr Abbott the free grant of the site on which their hall was built.—Bro. Collott returned thanks briefly, and expressed his intention of, iv tho future as in tho past, doing all that he could to improve and assist tho lodge. Tho medal is of massive gold bearing on one side the heart on hand, and on tho other the lamb and cross. _ It is suspended from a flat bar on which is engraved:—l.O.O.F., M.U. Presented to P.P.G.M. Collett by his lodge, 1886," and it was made to order by Mr Williams, jeweller, Waipawa. At the same meeting of the Oddfellows' Lodge, which now numbers nearly 200 members, it was decided to celebrate the anniversary on 17th'September next by a series of sports and a ball. The following were appointed the committee for carrying them out:—Bros A. Guy, A. E. Jull, W. Brown, Webber, C. Arrow, Fitzgerald, and B. B. Johnson. The entertainment in aid of Mrs Westoby and family by the Waipawa Brass Band (Chicken's), which iB set down for Wednesday night, is likely to be a very satisfactory affair, judging from tho programme and the numerous rehearsals. • Every item is new and will be carried out solely by members of the band. Mr G. W. Williamson has kindly promised his aid as pianist. Mr Forward, of Makatoku, has commenced an action against the Government to recover £35, the value of his horse, which was killed by a train on an unfenced portion of tho line recently. He alleges

that the horse was chased by the engine for move than a mile and deliberately run down and killed, and if ho proves this I expect it will go hard with somebody. Tho case is to bo heard at Ormondville next week.