WAIROA NOTES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16895, 27 November 1925, Page 10

WAIROA NOTES.

The police on Wednesday evening accommodated an unusually , largo party of men—mpstly “birds of passage -in the lock-up. Eight of the men wore charged with drunkenness and disorderly behavior. The Ladies" Pipe Band visited the hospital on Tuesday morning and ga've a short programme for .the benefit 'of patients and staff. The party was thanked by the Board’s.chairman, Mr. A. Sinclair. The matron and staff providode. morning tea. An inquest was hold -at Frasertown before Air. A. H. H. Unwin, deputyCoroner, and a jury of four., touching on the 'circumstances attending the death by drowning last Sunday of Huatalii Ta.tftaha.iigu. Evidence was given cfu tlio lines of my former r>» port in the Herald, with the addition that when halfway across deceased asked.his companion, Allan Kuuaiti, to give him a hand. He did so, and soon troth wont under three times. Deceased then let go and went down again, and failed to rise. His companion reached the shore in an exhausted condition. Booming a canoe he endeavored to locate ihe body, but failed. A verdict of accidental death was returned, the jury adding a rider commending Kuuaiti for his attempts at rescue. In the first heat of the Svenson ■Fours on Tuesday evening Fnrquhar defeated Gilligan after a great race by about half a canvas. The Native Appeal Court is sitting at North Clyde under the presidency of His Honor Chief Judge R. N. Jones and Judge McCormack. Though the cases are of old standing, there are none of any great public interest. Nothing lias, so far, transpired to give a. clue to the perpetrators of flic Waikarcmoaua fence-cutting. No further evidence of identification lias been received respecting the body.found on the- Wairoa beach recently. Sergeant Wade, however, inYormsbme that'he has .no doubt it is the body, of the. Maori (Martin); who was drowned at “Woodlands,’’ Mohaka district, in September last. tl . Further useful rain fell all over the district on Wednesday 'morning. The feed in the pastures, is growing well this season, and Wednesday’s additional rain will be a groat help •to further growth. t