HAMUA.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 589, 31 December 1897, Page 2

HAMUA.

From our own Correspondent.

The local cricketers journeyed to Eketahuna on C lristmas Day to tryconclusions with the club which has recently been formed there. The name ended in a wiu for H man by —hats off!—an innings and eiglu tans, Bodmin (18| being the top scorer. The day was perfect for cridket and the Eketahuna cricketers most hospitable,circumstances which combined to create a friendliness between the clubs which will, let us hope, be productive of many enjoyable meetings in the future. We cannot all avail ourselves of cheap excursions and hie us to distant places to spend the holidays. We are therefore indebted to Mesdauies Tuckwell and Watts for pro viding us with some little amusement in the shape of a dance in the Nireaha Hall. The whole of the- arrangements were carried out by these two ladies and their efforts are certainly to be commended. Music, floor and refreshments were all that a dancer could desire, and a large attendance marked our appreciation of those ladies’ labors. This being the season of good wishes may they live to treat us to many such pleasant evenings. There are those amongst us wlio are not such misers of moments as to see in a fleeting year a reflcCUon of the many wasted opportunities of the past. We are not going to try and arrest Father Time while we gather hack the lost time which is gono for ever, but rather to accompany the old gentleman into the new year with all sorts of good feelings. With that object in view a picnic is being organized for the last day of this year, to be followed by a dance in the evening tor those who wish to dance the Old Year out and the New Year in. A man named Wilds, tn the employ of Messrs \\. S. and M. Baigent, sawmillers, received a nasty blow on the arm on Wednesday from the handle ot a winch at which he was working. The most marvellous thing about the occurrence is that | the blow broke tin handle of the j winch, which was made of iron nearly ian inch thick. Although the pain has been intense the arm does not appear to be broken.