TIKOKINO.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11560, 13 June 1900, Page 4

TIKOKINO.

[from our own correspondent.] Mr E.Scarrott has bought Mr M'Kenzie's butchering business, and has opened a shop in this township. On Thursday Mr H. Hill held bis annual examination of the ohildren at the Hampden distriot school, and the results, I hear, ara yery creditable, and the Inspector's report Bhould proye extremely gratifying to the teachers in charge. The English mail on Friday brought news o£ the sad death of Mr Arthur Douglas Millar, of Bedstone Lodge, Eastbourne, England, and cousin to Mrs Frank Glass, .of Tikokino, who went as a journalist to South Africa, eventually joining Boberts' Horse, and participating in various engagements at De Aar, Modder Eiver, and Kimberley. Ha ao oompanied Lords Bobarts and Kitohener in their viotorious march on the Free State capital, and was present when Cronje surrendered at Paardeburg. During the fighting he received a bullet wound in the leg, from which he was re. covering satisfactorily, but owing to the Boers having captured all the provisions and luggage belonging to Mb regiment he and his comrades suffered terrible privations and hardships, and as his system was considerably weakened he fell a ready prey to dysentery. He had to be conveyed to the base hospital, wflere Jie succumbed to enteric fevar ftt the early age ofli3 years, a bright' and promising career being thus out Bhort, ' The ra}n oleared up on Thursday, an 4 was followed by two' frosts of exceptional severity, whioh were forerunners qf fine, waym days. It ?efc in bad again on Sym : day.