COUNTRY NEWS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12404, 20 November 1908, Page 4

COUNTRY NEWS.

' — *■ : TAKAKA. (Fioni our own Correspondent.) The election was conducted very quietly indeed here this tiime. For one tb^Dg'.'t.bo result was a foregone conclusion ior Mr R. McKenzie, and though: it was known- that the no license vote would be fairly stiong, it was generaliy conceded that a three-fifths majority was too nig a. hurdle, as proved "■the case. Altogether the election of 19C8 haw proved about the tamest thing jn its line everyone through here. , '£ZZ Early in the evening a light lain began to fall, and continued steadily all through the night, and. is still going on.- Tins I ' will be a. perfect God-si'nd to Takaka, as we have been Baying a terribly dry spring, and the outlook was beginning to look serious. If the rain continues all to-day, and it appears certain, it will set the Valley up for the season. ' On Monday inorniosr last an oldish dwelling hou3B at Waingaio, owned and oouurjied by._Mr Wm. ;Uail >w, senior, was destroyed by tire. The occupants weio very old and worthy 3ettler3 here, and geaeral sympathy ia exrresstd at thiir loss.