COLLINGWOOD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 24

COLLINGWOOD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

We have been having a very wet spell « Of weather lately, and although it has not been cold with it still a little dry sunny weather would help to start the feed growing. Dr Fisher- met with an accident last week by which he got his shoulder dislocated. He was called out at night, and in the dark trod too near the edge of the path, which broke away, giving him a fall on to the main road of some Bft or 9ft. ' At the meeting of the Collingwood County Council . last Monday, a unanimous resolution was passed asking the member for the district to do his best to get what is here considered as the very injurious clauses of State purchasing removed from a lease of the iron depoeit. It is considered that the county and State are sufficiently protected by the royalty conditions without adding clauses which may not mean much harm, but certainly are not encouraging to capitalists. An accident happened to Mr Watte, who got a foot crushed. As he was brought into Collingwood just too late to catch the steamer, he was driven down to Takaka, the local dootor being laid up with his late accident. As “the iroads are in a bad state from the late long spell of wet weather, so long a journey must have been very trying to the sufferer. ®

The flotation of a company to work iron deposits of Parapara and Tajronaki does not seem to be dead. The Warden announced last Court day that the lease had been granted and completed, and was to be sent to England by the next ’Frisco mail. But for the clauses the Council had asked to have eliminated the flotation would be a certainty, and it would have been floated and work started before this. Our member has always attended well to the irishes of his constituents, arid no doubt he will in this case do his best.