WAIRARAPA.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3307, 20 September 1871, Page 3

WAIRARAPA.

(from our own correspondent.) ploughing match. I fully intended to witness the ploughing match which came off at the Tauherinikau on Wednesday lust, the 14th inst; but just as I was preparing to start a (sou-easter sprung up which prevented me from going, and it doubtless had the same effect on the movements of many others who had intended to be present. It was the first match of the kind which has over taken place in this district, and though the weather was so unfavorable there was a very large number of persons present. There were six competitors, and each of them had half an acre of land to operate on, which they commenced to do at 11 o'clock. At the conclusion of the match the competitors and their friends sat down to dinner at the Tauherinikau Hotel. After which prizes were awarded to Messrs Gording, Rowe, Cockburn, and J. Cundy, in the order here given. Since the match a sturdy Scotch ploughman by the name of Duncan M'Phee has challenged any of the competitors to plough against him /or any sum from £5 to £20 ; the decision'to be given by three judges to be fixed on when the match is made. I hope somebody will be found to accept the challenge, though I would rather see another match got up under the auspices of the newly formed Agricultural Association. SUDDEN DEATHS. On Wednesday last, the 14th inst, a man by the name of John Bonythom was found dead at his reoidence on the Taratahi. He had been ailing for some time. An inquest was held on Thursday, when, from the evidence of Dr Smith, who had made a post mortem examination, it appeared that both the lungs and heart were diseased. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned. It is supposed that the death of Mr G. Elliot Lockhart, whose body