TEMUKA NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14055, 12 November 1909, Page 3

TEMUKA NOTES.

(From our own Correspondent.) During tho progress <>i" Hi'' journey to Winchester on Kind's Birthday by tho Temuka Primitive Methodist bundav school scholars, a lad named Oldfieid, about V2 vears of age, who was riding alongside the trollies containing the scholars fell from his bicycle in endeavouring to .save a child's hat that had blown off. In I he fall his lejs fell under the wheel of the vehicle it passed over it breaking both bones. The lad had the presence of mind to crawl out of the way of the succeeding trollies or his i'ijnric> would no doubt have been very serious. He was conveyed to Temuka where Dis. ami (.'rawsliaw made an examination and afterwards set the broken limb. At latr-st

the patient was progressing as well as could be expected. i 1(1 V„ V o the •V first oltender was up beloie tuc Court on morning and charged, with uisob let•>. Mr A. Kusscll, J.i\, inflicted a hue ol Us and costs. , ~, •Vii open-air benefit concert by >-«'- Tcnmka Brass Jland, to be given at the Maori l*a on Sunday artemoon next, in aid of the native forepe and his familv who lost everything m Hie. fin- which destroyed their house some days ago. it is a worthy and deserving case and it is to he .hoped there will be a liberal response. . V very old identity of this district lias just passed away at Hilton m the person of .Mr William Woodlcy, at the advanced age of HO years. Mr Wood ley hailed from H.-rkshire, .England, and had been 4o years in' the Dominion, mostly spent in Canterbury. He was a much resected resident ami leaves one .son (ilenr\) and two daughters Mrs W. Hide,'of Waitohi, and Mrs David Blair, of Vancouver, 8.C.) The funeral took place yesterday, and was largely attended, the interment taking place, at the Temnka C'emetary. A large number of farmers and trades people left Temnka by the north express yesterday, to aatend the people's day at the Christchurch show.