TAIHAPE NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 23 February 1899, Page 2

TAIHAPE NOTES.

(From Oub Own Correbfonpent.)

TAIHAPE, Tuesday.

On Saturday last a, cricket match was played between the Moawhangou, and Taihape Cricket Clubs iit Moawhangoa, which resulted in a decisive victory for Moawliniigoa by one innings and 4 runs. Great interest is being taken in the match next Hundiiy between the Mangaweka and Moawhangoa. Clubs, which will decide the Cup for this season. As each club has only been beaten once, a very close and exciting game is expected.

A very serious complaint in affecting a number of the male residents here, which is likely to result in a, buttle. There have been quite a number of serious "engagements" already, three of which have occurred in one establishment. It is to be hoped th.it complications will not be so serious a« to necessitate the reading uf the lliob Act again. Since last winter, when a. member of the local Literary Society stated in an essay that children should not be fed on mik of bad -tempered cows, there has been quite a demand for heifers and cows of the good-tempered plasij. ' Our little townslirp is not without its faddists. One advocates a tax on' cats to raise revenue for old age pensions. Another with higher ambition wishes to tax ladies' corsets, and is also anxious to get the position of, collecting the tax. On ' Friday evening next the public here are promised an intellectual treat in the way of an address on the temperance question by Miss Kirk.

- The attention of the district engineer is called to the dangerous state of one portion of the Gorge Road in to the Ohutu Block. Two days' work by one man would make safe what now means, by a false step, instant death to both hor.se and rider. In all probability, nothing will be done until an accident of this nature occurs.