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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8409, 7 January 1899, Page 3

The totalisator still flourishes in Hawke's Bay. The sum of £0333 was put through the machine during the two days' racing just held in Hastings, or £1171 more than at the corresponding meeting last year. Narrow gauge railways are evidently in favor in India. The Indian Government have decided to build a two-foot gauge railway line from Nowahera to Dargai, and have sent an officer of the Public Works Department to investigate and report upon the probable traffic. Will our own Government please take note and not forget the East Coast railway ?— Hastings Standard. ! Residents of Devonport, Auckland, are somewhat concerned at the inability to recover the body of Mr Tracey Hall, who was drowned in Lake Takapuna, from which the borough's water supply is drawn. A medical correspondent, in a letter to the Star, warns people against drinking the water from the lake before the body is recovered. With the present temperature of the lake, he says, decomposition of the body has already commenced, and if it is anywhere near the outlet to the pumping station all the water carried through the pipes will become poisonous,