PUNIHO.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 19, 4 September 1894, Page 2

PUNIHO.

(Odr Own Correspondent.)

All during Saturday we were favored by Captain Edwin with heavy Railstorms, and on Sunday the hail was variegated with snow. It was about the worst weather we have seen here for years. The cattle felt- it very severely, especially dairy stock, sending all the milk np to their horns. I regret having to chronicle a very nasty accident, which happened to a little son of Constable Hickman’s, who fell over a bank and. broke his arm. He was taken in to New Plymouth on Saturday to be attended to. Much sympathy is felt for thei little sufferer and his parents. Constable Hickman is deservedly very popular in this district, and he has had a lot of very hard luck lately, caused by sickness and accidents amongst the members of his family. *•* Mr Barr had the corpse of a halfgrown weasel on view at his store last week. The little foreigner had been killed by his cat. (Long life to the cat!) Mr Barr thinks that pUssy must have had an encounter with the * mother of the young weasel, as she showed signs of having had a rough and tumble, and had as many marks of honor as a modern football forward after a matclf.

Mr Pelham, senior, has purchased part of Mr Frank Anstey’s farm on the Warea Road. This will be another family permanently settled in the district. * Mr Judge, of Warea, was thrown from his horse on Wednesday evening last, and got a severe shaking. His arm is disabled, but fortunately no bones are broken. A large additional list of new books has just been added to the Puniho Library, which will form a welcome addition to our stock of literature.

Lucy Porekapa, the well-known chieftainess of Okato, is lying very seriously ill at her residence there. September 3rd.