WAIPAWA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12265, 11 October 1902, Page 4

WAIPAWA.

A meeting of the Holiday Association was held on Friday morning iu the Public Library. Mr James Williams presided. It was decided to keep a whole holiday on Friday, the 21th instant (people’s day of the Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society’s show). A full holiday is to ba observed on Monday, the lOtb November, in recognition of the King’s Birthday, and a half-holiday is to be kept on the day of the Schools’ Amateur Athletic Association sports, to be held in the Empire paddocks, Waipawa, on or about the 28th November. A charge of barometer, betokening wind, prevailed most of Thursday, and throughout the night, bnt the weather on Friday was very pleasant and summer-like, and conducive to stimulate growth both in garden and field, which is very backward. Miss Alice St. 0. Inglis has written to Mr Samuel Johnson, acquainting him with a letter received by her from Major-General Baden - Powell, beaded Johannesburg, July 12th, 15)02, in which he thanks the ladies of the band of entertainers known as “ Kaffirs ” for their present of a bsantiful little gold model of a wolf’s head. The letter incorporated thanks to his kind friends in Waipawa, and a hope that his good luck may in the future give him an opportunity of thanking personally the “ Kaffirs,” to whom he sent “ kind regards.” It would appear that the major-general wrote some ooneiderable time ago, lor his letter, or half of it, went back to him. In transit to New Zealand it had been commandeered by the Boers, when they had looted a mail train. The presentation was made in recognition of the bravery and good services of Major-General Baden-Powell in holding the town of Mafeking during its siege in the late war.- Own Ooekebpondent.