THE MANAWATU LINE (Our Own Correspondent.)

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 117, 15 November 1893, Page 2

THE MAN A WATU LINE (Our Own Correspondent.)

CorretpondenU.) Levin, 11th November. Operations in connection with the new aiding at the sawmills, and the alteration of the country road, hare been oommenoed, and most of us think having: the railway station at the south end of the town will b>) a great advantage. Airs. Whiley, of Ohau, met with a nasty accident on Thursday morning. Sho and some members of her family were thrown out of a spring trap. Mrs. Whiley alighted upon a projecting root, and had two ribß broken and the bone of her right arm badly bruised, besides being much shaken. She is not progressing as favourably as could be wished. This is the fifth Berious accident that has occurred to her during the past six months. Her two sons are also under the doctor's hands, one with a broken arm, and, the other with a crushed foot. The new Cricket Association has already been productive of some good matches, and the game seems to be getting more popular through its efforts. Mr. has presented two batß to be competed for by the men of the Mannkau Club, and we are anxioutly waiting for some one to do tbe same for us. Shannon, 11th November. The new session of our Mutual Improvement Society opened with a fairly large attendance. Mr. Lind, the Treasurer, said the funds showed a balanoe on the right side, and more than J32, realised by a concert, had been handed over to the sohool treat fund. Some of the settlers who have bush to burn are grumbling at the frequency of wet weather, but the generality of the farmers do not seem to mind it, and shearing is going on briskly notwithstanding it. When the works at the Tokomarn or Makerua swamp are completed, a magnificent tract of country will be opened up. The Shannon people will be glad when the work is done, as it will certainly bring a Urge amount of trade to the town. The examinations in elementary drawing at the different schools down the line seems to have been very satisfactory, and parents are pleased. Ihe want of small dwellings is badly felt here. Every day strangers are wandering our streets (?) looking for suitable places to settle, and go away grumbling. jCa enterprising man, with a little oapital, oould do well here if he could soften the hearts of seme of the Wellington seotion-holders. and get them to part with a few pieoes of tho now unused land. There ia every probability of some saleyards going- op iere, as two firms of auctioneers have been making enquiries about ground. This would be a great boon, as at present we have no facilities for selling stook or sheep without sending them a long way by train.

A Chrirty Minstrel entertainment is annonnood to be given in St. Muk'a Schoolroom on Tuesday next, by the Orpheus Club, in aid of the fund for inoreased aooommodation. An apology to Cameron ft Chriitie's regular customers for neglect oODttqnint upon their great Ironmongery sale is advertised |«lsewher», ,