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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 4313, 8 February 1902, Page 2

Stock quotations and commercial news will bo found on the first page. The reading matter on the fourth page consists of an account of the Guildford tragody. • The experiment of heaping damaged hay and straw on patches of Canadian and Californian thistles in Hawke’s Bay had the dosirod effect of killing the pest. Commencing on Monday next, 10th instant, and until further notice, the train now leaving Dunovirko for Napier at 7.5 a.m., will start from Woodville, leaving there at 6.5 a.m. The 2.15 train from Napier will run right through to Woodville, arriving there at 9.5 p.m. The Government Biologist has decided that the Canadian thistle, which has hitherto boon regarded by most farmers in New Zealand as harmless, is practically identical with the Californian thistle, a weed which the Government is calling upon landowners to eradicate. Troopers A. E. Collett and T. Clifford left Waipawa by yesterday morning’s train for Napier, en route for Auckland. A large number of friends assembled to see them leave. No formal send oft* was given, owing to the short period that olapßod between the time of their acceptance and their departure from the town.

The mortal remains of the late Mr Charles Mogrnlgo wore conveyed to their last resting place in the Hodluy Cemetery, yesterday afternoon. A number of townspeople attended to pay a last tribute of respect to an old colonist who had spoilt many years in the district, and the shops were closed as the funeral procession passed through the town. Messrs G. Oakenfull (jun.), 0. Turley, G. Corskio, and D. Hamlin, members of the Loyal Abbotsford Lodge of Oddfellows, to which Order deceased belonged, acted as pall-hearers. The service at the grave was conducted by the Bev. Mr Bowie, Methodist minister, who also delivered a short, able, and appropriate add ress.