OKATO.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12198, 17 January 1903, Page 6

OKATO.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

The picnic' and concert in aid of f udc'? for the Wesleysn church was an Undoubted success.^ Although the day w s not an ideal one for a picnic, the paren s and childreri rolled up in fairly larf.'f numbers. Games of all descriptions were indulged in, and a cricket match w; s played, during which Mr W. Line! m« t with a naaty blowin the mouth, depriving him of two of his front teeth. The con 1 cert in the evening was one of the best held in the rhurch, almost every iter< being encored. by a large and enthusiasts. 1 audience. A sum of 18 odd, was netted, which will reduce the balance owing to i about JE4O. The church' in .the first in,, stance cost over £300, and it speaks yen highly of the denomination in reduciu the amount in 1 go short a time. Jlkfr Doyle, sen. r ., met with a painful acqident on iiatprday. t A hay rake w»«being taken. > to a - paddock, and . findin; that the .width .-of. the'-barway was no sufficient, the horse was uuharnesse;! when sotuetbing 'seemsto have frighten e^ the animal, which careered off, ao knocked Mr Doyle on to aheap of stone> inflicting Home,, deep and painful T <iu about the head and face, necessitating tl doctor to.be o»lled to stitch up several b the wounds. . v The cricket match, Oxford Road versu the Township,' which eventuates pi Thursday, weather" and pthtr circuu stances permitting, is creating a good de>> of interest, and promises to be a re; good game Mr H. Humphries whihpractising with the bat met with a mi* hap— the ball ran up . the bat and wt> obstructed from proceeding over his hea by his proboscis, which at the preset ( time 'presents rather a disrepntable ai> pearance.