Untitled

Waipawa Mail, Volume XX, Issue 3541, 29 December 1896, Page 2

An account of the Waipawa Racing Olub’s summer meeting will be found on tho fourth page. Mr A. Dillon has sold the Pataugata hotel and store to Messrs Robjohns and Sons. Tho price was £I7OO cash. The quarterly meeting of Court C 552, A.O.F , will be hold to morrow night (Wednesday), at 8 o’clock. The Now cricket match was won by New Zealand by 120 ruus.

Mr Fararn, master of the Hampden school, is spending his holidays in Gis borne.

Mr George Hunter M H R. vviil bo in Waipawa on Tbursdny next, and will be glad to see any of his constituents who wish to consult him on political matters. The recipients of churKablo aid in the Waipawa and Patangata counties, received a pound of tea each at Cuiietmas, in addition to their usual rations.

The Waipawa Lawn Tennis Club played a match Town v Country on Boxing Day The result was ; Town 115 games, Country 114 games. The holidays passed off quietly in Wai pawa. The streets wore thronged on Christmas eve and the various Btoreu did a brisk trade.

The Waipawa Brass Band desire to acknowledge receipt of £1 donation from Mr and Mrs A. C. Scrimgeour, of Dane vitke.

At a type sotting con-e&t in London a mach : © set up 262 lines newspaper ype in cm tra* , six times as much as could bo actoinplished by baud.

Attention i’b directed to the aUoration in the time of closing the Patangata County C >uuoil’« contract for tho delivery of m Hal at Wabiug ord and Porangaoau. Tho matron of tho Waipawa District Hospital reports as follows, for the week ending December 26, 1896 :—Patients in hospital, M 19, F 8 ; received daring the week, M 1, F 2 ; discharged, M 2, F 1 ; died, M 0, F 0.

Chur’es Myers was brought before tho local Beuch on Boxing D *y and charged with drunkenness and indecency. He was convicted on both charges, and on the firet was fined 1(D, with 2s costs, aud on the second ordered to come Up for judgment when called upon.

A terrific thunderstorm broke over Gw .viis on Saturday, tho 10th inet. The lightniag killed four cows aud three calves. They were apparently walking in line on a level fiat, and each fell one behind the other. They seemingly died without a struggle.

The half-yearly summoned meeting of the Loyal Abbotsford Lodge will be held on Thursday night. As important business is to bo transacted a full attendance is requested A smoke concert will be held after lodge matters have been attended to.

We hear of two caees of pocket picking at the Wakarara sports yesterday. One of the competitors tolls us that while ho was running some one 41 went through ” his pockets, which only contained 6s 9d. The thief took the 6a and considerately left him the 9d.

Mr H. Limbrick had a rather annoying 0 experience yesterday. While on his way to the Wakarara sports with a quantity o f t liquid refreshment for tho booth, Ida q horses got stuck in a creek aud refused to budge. The trap evontually reached its a destination about noon, when its arrival c was greeted with loud cheera by a thirsty B aud expectant crowd. li Speaking at tho presentation of priz s to the pupils of the Dunedin Girls’ High School, Dr Porker said :—I firmly believe that ill made broad, fried chops, stodgy puddings, and unlimited libations of strong tea do more to ruin tho digestion, the general hooltb, the manners, and the morals of Now Zoalander3 than all those forms of liquid refreshment which are \ usually selected for denunciation. ‘ The matron of the Waipawa District * Hospital desires us to aekno ledge with ' thank*, tho following donations towards * tho patients* Christmas fare:—Case of 1 oranges,'Hon W. C. Smith ; ham, goose, r an 1 box of raisioo, Mr Mitchell ; fruit, I almond?, raisins, fires and tobacco, Mr ' Gow ; vegetables, Messrs Harding and ’ Peters. Also, books from Mies Boatock, 1 periodicals from Mr Mogridgo, bundle of | old linen from Mrs Gilbertson. Mrs T. Haycock, of Elsthrope, met with a painful accident last Tharwday. While driving over tho Pataugata bridge the horse shied at an approaching horseman, and Mis Haycock was thrown out of the trap, falling on her head. She was pi< keti up insensible aud oouvryed to the Patangata Hotel, where aha received every attention. Fortnuately no serious injury vvr.o sustained boyoud severe, bruises to her head end back, and the eufferer was shortly after conveyed to her homo. From a report issued by the Undersecretary of Lrads it app-ars that the co-operative workmen in tho Puketoi dis triot drew the following wages during the past year 44 uinn earned 6s per day, 20 had earned 7s, 16 had mad • 3* per day, 7 9s, and 3 10s per day. Under the in terinittent system of one third thero can only be a bira subsistence in these rates, no other work u-j yet available in many of the districts except road work. The fruit and j ily banquet held in con nection with the Salvation Army, on Übrinfimß night, turned out a decided success. A large crowd attended both buDquet and musical mooting. The pro i eedings were evidently mugh enj yed, and a good sum was raised for th” purchase of a trap for the Army The captain desires through our columns to return thanks to the public for their generous support, and hopes soon to have enough to pay eash down for the trap, which is being built locally. Stall ‘ Captain Edwards of Wellington is visiting Waipawa on Thursday next, when a ; public meeting will he held. * Tho Taupo correspondent of the Hot i Lakes Chronicle says :—“ The Rabbit De * parlment has beoa carrying on operations 1 here for som3 time. A considerable number 3 of bunnies have been trapped, but I doubt 3 very much if they can be kopt out of the r district unless the Government got the a iinrmms i quantity of ti tree cleared off the Crown lands. For years the attention 5 of tho Government has been called to the 3 -dosirahlonosQ of pluntiug tho Taupo plains 7 with useful woods, aB it is known that the 3 soil aud climate are most suitable for q forest growing, and now perhaps the r übiquitous and much abused rabbit is going to compel the Government to do v what common sonsj should havo induced _ them to do years ago.”