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Waipawa Mail, Volume X, Issue 1018, 4 December 1886, Page 3

Mr Harding, of Mount Vernon, kindly supplies us with the following Meteorological notes for November, 18SG :—The rain fell on the first three and last ten days of the month was as follows Total rainfall for the month, 98-100tlis of an inch. The greatest rainfall was on the night of Sunday 21st, when it reached 24-100 tbs. The heavy rainfall recorded in other parts of Ilawke’s Bay apparently missed this neighborhood. Mr Jos. Oswald Fleming, of Blackhead, desires to express gratitude at the kind manner in which he has been nursed and treated by Mr aud Mrs McHardy, of Blackhead, when suffering from a prolonged and acute illness. Nothing would satisfy Mr Fleming, short of expressing his gratitude in a public manner. An accident happened iu Waipawa this afteruoon which might have been attended with fatal results. Mr Harold Micliaclsen, who lias for some time been a resident here, by some means or other took a quantity of the powder known and sold as “ Rough on Rats.” It is only natural to suppose that the poison got in some manner mistaken for for some other medicine or food. At any rate, as soon as it was discovered, the chemist, Mr Drummond, was applied to for an emetic, which lie promptly applied. Doctor’s Todd and Mirbacli were immediately sent for, and brought their instruments to the scene of the misfortune. There, they applied the stomach pump several times, the patient being, of course, quite prostrated. The accident took place at about 1. p.m., and when the doctors left it was considered that Mr Michaelson has a good chance of recovering. It is of course an easy matter to mistake the nature of powders, aud it is an old saying that accidents will happen in the best regulated families. We hope to hear of the patient’s recovery. Feels Young Again.—My mother was afflicted a long time with neuralgia and a dull, heavy, inactive condition of the whole system, headache and nervous prostration and was almost helpless. No physicians or medicines did her any good. Three months slic began to use Dr Soule’s Hop Bitttis, with such good effect that she seems and feels young again, although she is over seventy years old.”—A Lady in R. 1., U.S.A Look up Doctors Gave Him Up.—''* It is possible that Mr Godfrey is up and at work, and cured by so simple a remedy V “I assure you it is true that he is entirely cured, and with nothing but Am. Co’s llop Bitters, and only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and said he must die.” “ Well-a-day ! If that is so I will go this minute and get some for my poor George. I kuow hops arc good. Read

Another bolt occurred this morning, the horse in Mr Britten’s trap being again the culprit. The trap was standing near the court house, when the animal suddenly started off on his lonely travels. He was pulled up at Mr Nicholson’s, by Mr S Cracknall, who rode after the runaway, fortunately, without breaking anything or killing auy one. It would be rather a good idea to chain the wheel of the cart when this ambitious beast is fixed between its shafts.

A meeting of the Waipukurau school committee will be held on Monday evening next, when it is understood that the committee will deal with the Inspector’s report. The new post and telegraph buildings arc now just about completed. They arc neat though not gaudy ; and compact though far from extensive. In fact they arc rather insignificant, compared with the other new buildings on the same side of the street. We must of course recognise the fact that the Government are going to begin to retrench, and that is the only recommending feature which we have beeu been able to discover in the buildings. The door for the use of the public is very small, aud when there are two or three people about, a deadlock will be a frequent occurrence. On passing into the building, the visitor finds himself in a kind a vestibule, out of which two doors lead into a little side office, and to the post office counter, respectively. On the side of the counter the private boxes are arranged. They are not numerous, neither are they very commodious. We expect to have to secure at least a dozen of them to accommodate our letters. On the other side of the counter is a sound proof cupboard’ evidently erected with a view to the future, when telephonic communication may be established with Onga Onga, Hampden, and other rising cities on the plains. The best part of the building is that apportioned to the officials. It is a fine airy chamber, warmed by a fire and lighted by a number of windows. It is large enough to Rerve the purpose of a banqueting hall for the town. We must make the best of the new post offices, of course, no one wishes to burn them down again after having to put up with the wretched little temporary offices for nearly a twelve-month. But we shall have to do so without experiencing a feeling that the town has been endowed with a public builciiug of transcendent beauty, or one which is likely to acquire for itself much historic renown, or be eagerly sought for by sight-seers desirous of gazing at the wonders of the southern hemisphere.

Another Episode in Mr Burnett’s temperance crusade is thus given by the Star : Mr Matthew Burnett lias apparently found the people at llie Northern Wairoa to be about as jealous of interference with their morals as the Mount Eden goalcr was of tampering with his cherubs. The local Gazette ” states that at Aratapu School, Mr Burnett selected the only two boys who wc.ie not wearing a blue ribbon on their coats aud addressing them before the whole of the school said lie “ felt really distressed to see them, the only two out of the whole crowd in Aratapu who were not teetotallers.” The two poor little fellows were then placed on one side, while lie harangued the remainder of the class according to liis own sweet will. This made the text of a leading article, which concludes thus : —‘‘ The spirit of the Education Act is unsectarian, but introduce tlic thin edge even of evangelical temperance, aud the school is open to every dictriuaire who wishes to air his eloquence aud impregnate the minds of the children with liis own ‘ ism ’ under the assumed aud borrowed endorsement of the state.” THANKS.