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Waipawa Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 2716, 2 February 1892, Page 2

Oq our fourth page will be found a full report of the last meeting of the Waipawa County Hospital Board. It is reported that Hastings is to have a Court-house, and that its erection will be commenced this month.

The N.Z.L. and M. Co. will hold their fourth wool sale of this season on ThursdajT, March 3rd, and the catalogue will close on 29th February. The General Synod of the Anglican Church opens to-morrow at Wellington. Dean Hovell and Archdeacon Williams left by the Hauroto last Sunday to attend it. -

The adjourned meeting of the shareholders in the Waipawa Building Society will take place this evening, when the proposed amendments to the rules will be considered.

Mr H. C. Wilson, the well-known Napier dentist, will again visit Waipawa on Tuesday and Wednesday, 17th and 18th inst, when he may be consulted as usual at Dr Godfray’s residence.

Yesterday a rabbit was captured in Waipawa, just in the locality where, as reported in last issue, two had been chased by dogs, The Woodville Examiner says that the County Overseer should require the owners of the timber crossing at Tahoraite to put it in much better order. Id its present state it is dangerous for traffic. Wo are indebted to Mr R. Harding for the following meteorological report : Rain fell upon 15 days during January, the greatest fall registered being 'B3 on tb© 6th. The total fall for the month was 3.43 inches.

Some cases of fruit-stealing in Waipawa have been brought under our notice. The offenders are known and, though let off this time, we are requested to point out that any repetition of the offence will result in a prosecution. A committee meeting of the Education Board was held to-day to decide upon a list of applicants for the assistant mastership of the Gisborne school, such list to be forwarded to the school committee.

The school picnic at Takapau last Friday was a great success, and in the evening the hall was crowded with dancers. Refreshments were supplied in abundauce, and dancing was kept up with the spirit and zest which country dancers usually throw into these affairs.

On Saturday night last the Takapau Caledonian Sports Committee disposed of the following privileges:—Publican’s booth, Mr Lowe, £18; refreshment booth, Mr Gavin, £9. The Maorisjintend to hold a race meeting the day after the sports. A good course has been prepared behind the Takapau railway station. The Secretary of the Waipawa District Hospital reports as follows for the week ending January 30th, 1892 :—Patients in Hospital, M 22, F 2 ; received during the week, M 6, Fo ; discharged, M 7. F 0 ; died, Ml, F 0.

The late rains have seriously damaged a good deal of dressed flax laid out for bleaching at the Takapau mills. In the Makaretu and Ashley-Clinton districts there are serious losses of cocksfoot seed. By the terms of arrangement for cutting and threshing, this loss falls in a great measure on the contractors.

We are given to understand that it is the intention of fifteen calling themselves “The Muffs” to challenge an eleven to be picked from those who played in the senior v. junior match last Wednesday. It is also likely that a match will be arranged between our local cricketers and an eleven of Ruataniwha plains. Messrs Chegwidden and Harton, of Wellington, passed through Waipawa today en route for Napier, on a bicycle tour. They left Wellington last Saturday at noon and came by the Masterton route. The journey to Napier from Waipawa was resumed at 10.30 to-day. A portion of the journey was pretty rough, wet weather being met with ; but on the whole the trip proved an enjoyable one.

The season for the annual collection of agricultural statistics has again come round. Where it is found convenient, this work is entrusted to the police. Constable Beattie takes the Waipawa town district and ridiog ; Constable Brosnahan, Waipukurau and Ruataniwha; Constable Lawless, Danevirke ; Constable Treanor, Woodville. The exceptions are Patangata, where Mr Westmoreland acts ; and Herbertvilie, where the acting constable is only temporarily located to relieve Constable Carr.

A German chemical engineer named Sandmann, of the Munsterburg Sugar Refinery, has been fined 450 marks in the Glatz Criminal Court for causing bodily harm to a girl named Emily Winter, by hypnotising her daily, sometimes even three times in one day, until at last she became violently mad, and in her paroxysms tore the flesh from*ber fingers. She is now an inmate of a madhouse. The Waipawa correspondent of the Herald has indulged in a long lucubration regarding the source of a paragraph in this paper re proposed action against truant children. There is only one point which requires notice at our hands. Whatever irregularity may have been displayed in other quarters, there was none in connection with the paragraph referred to. We were not supplied with any list of names of children, either by Sergt. McArdle or any other person, and consequently Mr Williamson was in error if he stated that Sergeant McArdle had put it in.

It is reported that Mr Kelly, as agent for the Government Land Purchase Department, has succeeded in purchasing some native interests in the Waikopiro Block. Yesterday Mr Kennedy', surveyor, started to lay off the subdivisions ordered by the Court. Mr Kennedy had intended to start earlier, but delayed ou account of

pome of the owners deputed to point out xhe boundaries being also interested in the Rakautatahi Block, now before the Native Land Court. As it tnrneu oat, the most inconvenient day was, after all, chosen as, but for the absence of these natives yesterday, the Rakautatahi case could have been closed. We learn that we have caused grave offence by our reporter omitting to mention the name of Mr C. Hemmingsen as one of the delegates from Abbotsford Lodge, at the annual meeting at Danevirke. The fact that the same omissioo occurs in the Bash Advocate's report is sufficient to to exemplate the editor. An agreement was arrived at yesterday by the declared owners of Rakautatahi, on the basis indicated in our last issue, and the following list of subdivisions and areas was handed in to the Court:—Rakautatahi No. 1, 5,568 acres, Nope Te Apatu and party ; No. 2, Maika Iwikatea and party, 788 acres ; No 3, Tangaru and others, 500 acres ; No 4, Tangnru and others, 485 acres; No 5, Ruphua and party and Urupene Puhara and party, 591 acres ; No 6, Nepe Te Apatu and party, 2598 acres ; No 7, Nepe Te Apatu and party, 1289 acres. In respect of some of these subdivisions, lists of names of owners were also prepared and handed in ; but other claimants were absent on the Waikopiro Block, and the Court adjourned till to-day to enable them to return.

To-day Mr Gannon, on behalf of Tangaru and party, handed in a list of names of owners of Ruataniwha No. 3 and 4. A number of these were objected to on the ground that their claims had been disallowed by the judgment. The list, as revised, was received by the Native Land Court. The Ngapairuru case was then called on, and, after considerable discussion, it was decided to hear the case at Waipawa, the Court stating reasons for considering this the mosc convenient place. The case was adjourned till next Tuesday.

At the close of the meeting of the Hospital Board on Saturday afternoon, a committee meeting was held to arrange for the concert and ball. Correspondence was read from the musicians expected to appear, from which it was anticipated that all would be in their places. Mr McHardy enclosed a donation of £2, and regretted his inability to attend the meeting. Messrs Nelson Bros, promised some flags for the decoration of the hall. The Secretary said Mr Williamson had written expressing regret that he could not atteud the meeting, but be was working vigorously and with his usual enthusiasm. Mr Williamson was authorised to engage a competent pianist to play the dance music, as the Board felt it would be too great a strain on Mr Williamson to impose on him the latter duty. An order was given to the Waipawa Mail Office for the supply of ball and concert programmes. Mr Bibby undertook to attend to the selection of the ball programmes, the arrangement of the concert programme being left to Mr Williamson. The Secretary said he had a promise of evergreens from Mr Scholes for the decoration, and was sure be could get ample assistance to put them out. The Secretary was instructed, if he found there were not enough flags for the decoration, to write to the N.Z. Shipping Company for a further supply. With regard to refreshments, the Secretary reported supplies were coming in freely, but further donations would be welcomed, especially of fruit. The meeting then adjourned till next Saturday to make final arrangements.