MANGAWEKA NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10406, 20 July 1912, Page 5

MANGAWEKA NOTES.

From Our Own Correspondent. We have had many wet and severe winters in this district during the last twelve years, bat the season we asp at present experiencing is the worst. For six weeks It has rained almost incessantly, and the lowlying country Is sodden. Slips are down in all directions, and same of the slides on the high papa faces are almost continuous. The mail contractors are having an anxious time in their efforts to get safely through with the mails. On '-Thursday afternoon, la a downpour of rain, Taihape hockey team fought out their fixture in the final round at Msngawaka. The game was fast and when the whistle sounded time Mangawotea had Sour goals to their credit and Taihape two. Taking the- game right through both teams were evenly matched, and Taihape missed two easy goals through being over-anxious. Mr Harris refereed.

The Utikn fatality in which the two unfortunate young fellows met their death in the Haatapa river is the general topic of conversation. Speaking to a gsatlsman on Thursday evening who visited the scene of the accident, he said that three of the horses that went over the bridge with the trolleys can- ba seen a little below the fail tangled up in their harness, the other three are washed down stream and are doss to where the Hatuspn empties into the RangiSikei, A sharp look-out Is being kept along the banks of the Rangitikei here for the bodies of Pink and Hopwood. The river is at present in flood, and it is the general opinion that they will be washed dawn.

Whilst writing word has just come through that a Blip of large dimea-cic-iiQ hsa come down near Mr T. U'Sallivan’e honee, completely blocking the traffic on the main road between here and Utiku.

Foe allowing stack to wander at liberty na fciio main Ehorcnghfa's Messrs M. Tansey, W. A. Officer, W, Parsons, O Trsvls, and Hicks wore fined from 2s to 9i, with costs 7@. Mr Thompson, S. M., occupied the Bauch.