NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12066, 9 September 1902, Page 3

NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

!) , ... [FROM OPE OWS CORRK«PON'DF.MTS.] WAIUKU. Trooper Ben Bennett (son of M,. George* Bennett, of this district), lies in a dangerous l stale suffering from pneumonia. TrooperBennett belonged to the Tenth Contingent., and returned in the BritUuiic. He is now. I' am pleased to say, slightly tetter, and Dr. Clonston has hopes of pulling him through. Trooper J. Bennett, hi-; brother, on® of the Eighth Contingent, who also returned by the: Brittanie, and who was detained at Welling-1 ton suffering with pneumonia, has now ap«; parently quite recovered. Trooper Cloustoo. who was laid by for a few days is better, and' lias taken a trip to Te Aroba. The rest of our i(.-turned, buys are well. Messrs. A. Buckland and Sons held their monthly sale on September 6. There was a fair muster of cattle, nearly all of whichchanged hand* at satisfactory prices, Pigs v.iie in demand, and sold. well. TE AWAITDJU. j MESSES JOHNS and North, justices, preside j at the Police Court on Safiferday, and dealt! with the cases of D. Hickej, Alfred Price, and Connor, three young men 6sp.rgod with Placing an obstruction oh a public road at, Ohaupu, and with damaging a gate, the propetty of Mr. Kusabs. 'Hie police withdrew ' the charge against Price. The othor two were convicted and each ordered to come up' for sentence when called upon, and to pay costs 13*. The grade of the Te Awamntu Post Office has been raised with the object, mainly, I understand, of promoting Mr. Vause in the service, and complying with the request of a large section of the people not to remove him; from Te Awamntn. — »"■—■ — ■ ' " SBS