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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8926, 12 September 1905, Page 3

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(From Our Own Correspond ent.)

A plain and Kt'.icy ones ball wash«ild_Ju t'.u public Jidi: vii tlie atli,_\viiK.if provea a ute.it Din.v<.-"»*, ih«xt beiug__aOou.t lony. c'-ipleo pres.'ii: _ The music- \vu& supplied b\ Mrs ijiit.fr 'the extras being pj ived by Mr Dan Hurley)., winch was voted oy -all \.j he nrci-tl.-^b. .Mr L>.-101. 111.1 ami £. tkluiston capaUv earned out- ihe cuiues"bi SiL. 'ill** lolloiviug ladies were thf most- noiiceable-:-.\lrs Howard, (.tipsy; Ah;s bioniui. y.iu-en of Hearts: .Miss CuoOs, Ivy: Miic'^nuon, yuinmtr ;— Mrs Auiob, Night; Mies Hedge, Hower Girl; i\;i;a \ T . Howard. Violets. ""Amongst tlK* gr ut lumen.. I think the most "noticeable were Mr Percy Herbert, Clown; -Mr 0. (.■'-■liuib, M.tno - Wars/nan ;. -Mr Amos, b;uIjr : ..»r J. Johnson. .Midshipman. As t.iin was tiie laet- dance of the_seasoii it wao kept gouig until cow-time. A wry serious accident happened— to a little child, 12 months old, belonging to Mr R. Frew. The Httle one .managed 'by c.mo means or oilier to upset, a basin of Luang uulk t»vei herself-, the result Jseii\j, that slie was very badly burnt about the f.ic? and a-rnifc. She was taken to the Fa tea Hospital. The many-iri.ands of the p.u-ents will bt pleased _to hear that the little buhVivr is progressing "satisfactorily.

The weather has been very favorable hU'ly, the resuit being that everyone iiuhe fuming line hat he en busy "ploughing and gluing ready lor sowing the various~~kinds ot winter i «.-<!. "The grass is growing wonderfully '.\ei: ior tlus time of" year, and the cows are putting up "records al-r-ady. 1 heard one man say the other day he hud Tows giving seven, gallons of imlk a day. Thai- oughts to take beating. Mr Hine. the- Opposition -candidate; sj eke to a very good house at Kakaramea on Thursday evening He got a splendid hearing. A vot^ .of confidence, in" the speaker was carried unanimously. •& Some ot the members of the Uoad Cuard Ltve lx-en mi tamed that there id a gravel pit in Mr Taylor's 'property. One of tiiom told jne that, the gravel was very gi <_.U, but he thought there would lie too iiiiiLh dripping roc|uiitd. '"" A gocd yravvl pit in this distikt would be a boorrto" us a!!, as they had to g<>t broken stone from Stratford for the last mile that-was done hat summer. This metal is~ very expensive by the time it g*t.s on to th.} rojid, and then* is no doubt our roads tak^ a lot o"" beat-in;: far mud. ~