WHANGAMOMONA NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7, 6 May 1912, Page 5

WHANGAMOMONA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The shooting season opened here in anything but agreeable weather, the morning of May Ist being damp and .heavy, and all day we saw very little of tho sun. Up to the present only very moderate bags are recorded. It puts a humorous side to the picture when we see in the evenings tired, mud-bespattered sportsmen creeping kr quietly back to the township, laden with gun, and waistcoats faced with cartridges, but no birds. Even the dogs seeirt to catch from their masters the. dejected look that comes to those whose dreams have not seen fulfilment. , J . . The furniture for the new hotel is being brought from the railhead. A week or so now should see the building ready for occupation. Mr. Duffil. the architect of the building, is at present in Whanga. Mr. and Mrs. Court are just now spending a holiday in New Plymouth. Mr. C. McCartie has gone to Australia for a few months. The bullock waggon traffic over the Saddle is just about oyer for this season. T expect that this will be the last summer that we will see hullockr regularly on the Whanga Saddle. Ere the summer returns we shall nave all our goods brought in on the railway. Slips and the subsidence of the nil mgs are causing some trouble on thu side of the tunnel, but it is anticipated that the siding in Mangere Road will bo in regular service m about a tortnight’s or three weeks’ time. Mr. Fletcher, of Mangere Road, hat left on a holiday visit to PalmerSt The Kohuratahi Hall committee’s dance is to be held this evening ( 11 dav). The Kohuratahi folk are tona of the “light fantast.c,” and the popu- • larity of tneir socials reaches to ever} ■ poiul of cur big district. A success! iu . evening is assured. Mrs. Dean has secured from a fancier in the Old Country a high-class black pug. it is expected to arm c in tho Dominion shortly. Mrs. Dean is , an enthusiastic dog fancier, and »t hope that her enterprise will prove , successtul and satisfactory. , A sharp shock of earthquake was ; felt here about 2 a.m. last Tuesday btu • no damage is reported. It was, how- f ever, one of the most severe felt 111 the district for years.' . { Mr W. H. Reader is making pieparations to build a house on his section on the Whanga Road. He expects to have it linisned in about twe ' months’ time. . , , „ The Public Domain now boasts a brand new, solid-looking front fence, t with a guard fence Oft inside, the intention of the Domain Hoard being to plant a live hedge between the two wire fences this wintci. Mr, R. Scott has received from, an outside wrestler, a challenge^to wrestle at Stratford, Eltham, or New PlyWmouth. Mr. Scott has not given any definite acceptance so far. Pressure ol business here makes it difficult to give the 1 requisite amount of attention to t: preparations for a wrestling match. t Mrs. McMeekin leaves .next week to ii spend a month’s holiday with relatives d in Canterbury.