DANEVIRKE.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 2717, 4 February 1892, Page 2

DANEVIRKE.

Town correspondent.}

The match between Mr Allardice’s Harold and a local horse named Hercules came off on ;the racecourse on Tuesday evening and resulted in an easy win for the veteran “ sport.” Mr Allardice has been very lucky lately and has won a considerable amount in matches of this sort. After the race was over the inevitable sweepstake took place, distance once round. The winner this time turned up in Butcher Boy which having been trained had the beet of the held.

A meeting of the Friendly Societies Sports Committee was held at the Junction .Hotel on Tuesday evening, the principal business being tbe question of disposing of the funds in Land, aod also the presentation to the secretary, Mr Atby, of a memento of the sports. The presentation, which took the form of a handsome marble timepiece, suitably inscribed, was successfully carried out amid the usual goodwishes and compliments prevalent upon such occasions, but tbe disposal of the money in band still remains a problem of the future. It appears that the Foresters desire that the amount, about £2l, should be vested in two trustees, one from each lodge, to be held available for the sports next year in case it should be wanted. The Oddfellows demand half the money, which they wish to take charge of themselves, as on the previous occasion. When the Chairman commenced to put the motion providing for the vestment of the money in trustees the Oddfollows retired from the room and there being then no quorum the motion conld not be put. As there were five Foresters and four Oddfellows present at the meeting tbe fate of the motion, had it come to a vote, was a foregone conclusion, hence the stragetic rear movement on the part of the opposing section of tbe committee. There the matter stands at present, aod there it appears likely to remain till Doomsday, unless something unforeseen happens, as both parties are equally determined to have their own way. There has been a new pump put down in the railway yard for the purpose of filling the large tank that supplies the engines. The official trial took place on Tuesday afternoon but although the pump “ worked ” beautifully it would not lift the water from the well. This pump is supposed to propel water for two miles but it will not lift from a distance of 30 feet which is about where the water in the well is from the surface of the ground. Some other plan will have to be adopted, but these experiments are rather costly. Danevirke was enveloped in smoke on Tuesday evening and flakes of ashes were tailing almost as thickly as snow. Messrs Kennedy and party have gone on to the Waikopiro Block to survey it with a view, I believe, of enabling the interests of the owners to be defiued.

Weasels are frequently seen about here. One was observed right in the township a day or two ago. A robbery, alleged to have been committed at one of the hotels, has been reported to the police, a man named Watkins, who by the way has been drinking, having informed the Constable that he had been eased of £6 or £7. “ A fool and his money &c.” Sheep worrying is reported to be causing the settlers about Ormondville some annoyance and loss.

A team of tennis players are coming from Woodville on Saturday to try and give our local men another beating. I fancy they will have an easier task than they had last year. Mr J. Fleetwood Wells, one of our most popular townsmen, received a cable from England on Tuesday, announcing the death of his father. Mrs Wells is at present away for a trip to the West Coast Sounds, and consequently has not heard the sad news.

A profit of £ls resulted from the Ormondville Horticultural Show, a result that must be regarded as highly satisfactory. Entries for exhibits of salt butter at the fourth annual show of the 70-Mile Bush Horticultural and Industrial Association in March next, close with Mr Brabazon on Friday, 12th instant. Mr Brabazon hopes to receive some entries from your district, and later on some general entries in the shape of flowers, farm, and garden produce. A strong special prize-list is boing got together, and from all I can hear, the show is likely to equal any of its predecessors.

On Show-day there will be athletic sports at Makotuku, the ground for which is now being prepared. There was a public meeting at Makotuku about this subject on Saturday last, but as the contractor said he would have the track ready in four days, the meeting was adjourned for a week, when a bee for levelling and rolling will be held.