MAKOTUKU

Waipawa Mail, Volume X, Issue 1024, 18 December 1886, Page 2

MAKOTUKU

fFROM OUlt OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Whoever supplied you with the information anent our cricket club was out a little too early with his statements. The names mentioned in your Tuesday’s issue constitute the list before the mooting and can consequently not bo the result of that meeting. Blade is a fictitious name. The team, as fixed now to play through the Province of Hawke’s Bay during the holidays, consists of Hayward, Harwood, Garforth, Lycett, Sleoman, Bargh, Craven, Wolstenholme, Davidson, Scarfe, Coope and Cross.

The clubs to be played against are the Rovers, Union, Napier, and Waipawa. They meet at the railway station, Makotuku on Monday, 27th inst., ready for tho morning train. They play at Hastings tho same day and Waipawa on the 31st. On an average tho team is very fair and should account well for themselves. The most of the chosen ones are well known throughout the hush settlements, so that their doings down country will be followed with general interest. By-the-bye Sugdon, jun., I am told, is going with the toain, but uot as a player.

Later. The tramway from the railway-siding to the mill of Messrs Mathews nnd Co. has been started, and it is progressing rapidly, in spite of the protest lodged by Mr R. Russell at the last meeting of tho Tow.i Board. Mr A. Stephenson hns sold out his butcher-business to Messrs Lycett and Cross, the pushing and energetic sawmillers of this town. I hear that a party of surveyors is a little beyond Matamau cutting the boun-dary-lines of the Piripiri Block, which I nm informed has been secured by Mr Rathbone, of Waipawa, under a 15 years lease. Mr Rathbone contemplates, I understand, erecting an extensive mill on tho block near Danevirke. Our township is in a stato of ferment just now from some cause or causes unknown. The general aspect of affairs makes one think of a beo-hive towards swarming time.