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Woodville Examiner, Volume V, Issue 458, 1 April 1889, Page 2

Mr Walsh has resumed charge of the Post and Telegraph Office affc? hia holiday.

The vali lity of alleg°d yreferences to Mr Kinross White and Robjohiia and Co. by Kinross and Co., prior to bankruptcy, are being tested in the Supreme Court. Messrs Garble and Hall have visited the A. and P. Society’s reserve with a view to ascertaining its suitability for a show ground. They consider it unsuitable, and will recommend that it be sold, and the money devoted to a more suitable piece of ground. While the funeral service was being conducted at tlae Cemetery yesterdty people were shooting in the bush close at hand. It is the duty of every law-abiding settler to suppress this kind of thing, and information should be given to the police or the ranger. The late Reuben Collins died of typhoid fever, contracted at Kopua. of his fellow—workmen were also taken ill* &nd one is reported to have also died. The fever is supposed to have been contracted irom drinking bad water. The question of selling Crown land by auction was broached by Mr H. Bunny at the monthly meeting of the Land Board. That gentleman suggested that the Board should seriously consider whether it would not be desirable to dispose of all their sections in that manner. The Commissioner said that he would strongly oppose any such proposal because he felt that capitalists and wealthy men would oe able to outbid other would-be purchasers when the land was put up at auction. At the last sale, there were men present who were prepared to buy for cash all the land in the Horowhenua Block. Mr Bunny explained that he was open to conviction. The Manawatu Railway Company sold their land to the highest bidder, and so far as he could hear there were no complaints that the poorer people were prevented from buy ing. The Commissioner maintained that the poor man would be shut out from lioyin" if all sales were to be by auction. In his opinion there was no comparison between the case of the Board and the case of the Company, the Board having sold infinitely more land during the past year than the Company. Mr Bunny said he should like to discuss the question on a future occasion, and at the suggestion of the Chairman he gave notice to move that the subject should be discussed at nest meeting. Mr Bunny observed that there were great complaints on the part of the public that the present system of selling the land was not satisfactory. Ihe Commissioner said that at next meeting he should be able to show that the public were very well satisfied with the system. The subject then dropped. Boat. As Mr Peart was driving on the Manawatu Bridge this morning towards Woodville the horse shied. Two little girls, daughters of Mr Henderson, were in the trap with him. One pulled the rem when the horse shied, taking it over the bank. Fortunately all the occupants were thrown clear of the trap, and escaped uninjured.