HURLEYVILLE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9140, 12 July 1906, Page 6

HURLEYVILLE.

(From Out Own Correspondent.)

The weather here has been very bad for I the last three weeks, consequently out ' mud roads are in anything but good order. J Sonte parts of the Ball road aTe very bad I indeed. The School Committee are having eleven chains of C. Macrocarpa hedge put ! on the most exposed sides of the play- 1 ground to give much-needed shelter from ' the bleak winds which so frequently blow ! here. This will in a short time be a ] great comfort to the children, and will considerably add to the appearance of the place. >

There passed away an old resident- on ' •Saturday last in the person of Mrs Thos. j Craft, who had been in bad health for about five years. The deceased lady was '■ ft native of Scotland, coming from Leith. | near Edinburgh, and had- been in the colony over twenty years. She was of a very kindly and obliging disposition, and will be greatly missed by her sorrowing husband and family, as well as by a wide «ircle of friends. The funeral, which took place on Thursday, was very laargely attended in spite of the miserable day it wae and the terrible state of the roads The coffin had to be conveyed in Mr Root's cart as far as Mr Williams' place, near Alton, where the hearse was waiting to carry the remains to the Patea cemetery, where the last rites were performed by the Rev. Herman. The funeral cortege was subjected to a pitiless storm 'of wind and rain when half-way between Ball Road and Kakaramea. Neveirthehsss the mourners stuck to their duty, although some of them were ladies in open traps, coming all the way from Hurleyville in the piercingly cold wind as a tes I timony of their sympathy.

From the note of an occasional corres- i pondent we extract the following additional particulars -.—The death notice in the Stah had flashed its sad news, and I noticed settlers from as far as Manaia in the procession who had only time to take coach and rail to Patea, and thence s -hire, to meet the cortege in a drenching stoTm of wind and rain. One sad feature of the event was that three brothers of the deceased rushed down from Auckland expecting to find their 'loved one in life, but they, too, only were able to reach Patea by the morning express and from thence hire post haste, only to learn that the sad procession was slowly wending its wav to her last and final resting place. The late Mrs Graft leaves a young family of one son and three daughters, and Mr Craft has the deepest sympathy of this and adjoining districts in his irreparable loss