DISTRICT NOTES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5354, 10 February 1916, Page 7

DISTRICT NOTES.

WOODVILLE

Some little excitement was caused in Woodyilie on a recent evening, when a travelling preacher, a llusisian Finn, commenced speaking at the corner of McLean street. Owing probably to his broken English, his

words were mistaken as advocating peace, and a crowd quickly gathered, soon became hostile, and some lads procured a hose and drenched the poor fellow. He stood to his guns, however, and before leaving said he hoped the next man who came to them with glad tidings would he received in a better manner. At the Woodvdle Magistrate’s Court a man named William Stevens appeared on a charge of ettemped suicide at Wood vide. Accused stated that he was very sorry for his act but that he committed it under a strain of great excitement. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. EKETA H UNA. Mr O. C. Cooper, of Master ton, met with a painful accident while visiting lirs station, Brook lands, last week. A horse he was riding on the property slipped and fell with him, inflicting injuries that kept the \ictim to his room for several days. A Rongomai motorist, when passing the Pongaroa motor bus at a narrow spot on the road, on Saturday. found lie. had cut things a bit too line and had landed in.the watertable, striking the culvert en route. The wind screen of the car wasslwit-