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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 4058, 31 May 1900, Page 2

On the fourth page will be found an account of the movements of the Third Contingent, by our correspondent “ Tataramoa.” Heavy rain has fallen throughout the district for the last two days and there is every prospect of it continuing During April 997 people arrived in the colony, while the departures were 1875. The pupil teachers’ examination under the Hawke’s Bay Education Board is to commenco on Wednesday, June 27The Waipawa Brass Band played a number of patriotic airs last night, in honor of the capture of Johannesburg. Mr J. H. Jones, the Waipawa stationmaster, has been promoted to take charge of the Danovirke station. Messrs Williams and Kettle will hold their next stock sale at Waipawa, on Tuesday next. Early entries are requested.

The collection in aid of the erection of the new church at the pa amounted to £4OO.

Attention is directed to the sale of Mr W. J. Standley’s furniture, which takes place in the Oddfellows’ Hall, at 11 a.m, to-morrow.

Saturday next will be a day of fast and abstinenoe, also Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday next week, at the Catholic Church.

Messrs Manson and Co’s timber sale, at Onga Onga, which should have been held yesterday, has been postponed until Saturday next.

It is stated that the cost of deviating the railway line from Upper Hutt into the Wairarapa district, thus avoiding the Rimutaka mouutain, will be a quarter of a million pounds. Mr. W. J. Standley will be leaving Waipawa for Sydney, en route for England, by Monday’s oxpress. To-night he will be entertained at a social by the Loyal Abbotsford Lodge of Oddfellows. The whole of the donations have now been handed in at Norsewood for the Indian famine fund, and are as follows : Collected by ladies in the district £32 11s Id, special Lutheran services £ll ; total £43 11s Id.

The lighting of the stage of the Oddfellows’ Hall was very faulty last night, and it is evident that some improvement must be made in this respect. The performers appeared to come like shadows and so departed, leaving the audience in doubt as to whether they were creatures of flesh and blood or spirits from the vasty deep.

There was some excitement in Waipawa yesterday afternoon whon we issued an “ extra” announcing that Lord Roberts 'had captured Johannesburg. The fire and school bells were rung, flags were hoisted and handbells and gongs set going. Some of the “ irregulars ” discharged guns. Owing to the fact that the weekly half holiday was being observed there were not so many in the streets as usual.

A company parade of the Waipawa Rifles was held on Tuesday night, there being a very good muster present with Captain Rathbone in command. The company fell in at the school and were then marched to the Oddfellows’ Hall, where an hour’s useful drill was gone through. At the conclusion of the drill a meeting was held, when a new member was elected and two proposed. The following were then appointed corporals : —Privates Collett, Nash, Howard, Lowe and Ferguson. The question of securing a drillshed was discussed, Captain Rathbone stating that he had written to Colonel Porter, who had promised a subsidy from the Government when full particulars were forwarded to him. A committee was appointed to try and secure a site. It was decided to issue a challenge to the Napier Guards for a football match, date to be fixed later.