OTAKI NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1069, 7 March 1911, Page 7

OTAKI NEWS.

A man named Charles Turner died last week at tho Otaki Hospital. Deceased was 68 years of age. , i Measles have broken out in Manakau, but every, precaution is being taken to suppress tho outbreak. A Svduc-y buyer has purchased about 100 drauglit horses from this district for: tnnsport. to Australia. Tho class o£i animal is a good one, and the purchase will tend to maks horseflesh dearer hero for a while. It is stated that altogether some 2!)00 horses have besn similarly purchased in (he Dominion. . , . Major Tatum, of Manakau, is bavins.* large two-story residence built. _ \ meeting of the Otaki Licensing Bench was held on Friday, .when transfers were granted from -. Moyniban to -. Bishop r-ahautnmii Hotel), and from T. 1 nylon to G. M'Beath Uubilco Hotel, Otaki). \t tho monthly meeting of the Magistrate's Court; on Friday only a few minor civil eases wero heard. In one. a Nativ« claimed JM from A. B. Sfanson for allowed damage done by tho latter s boar. His Worship (Mr, A, D. Thomson) resorved. judgment. ' , , Mrs. aud Miss Penn who have been on a month's holiday to Otaki, left on Jridav afternoon for Wellington, en route fop their homo at Aharon. The funeral of tho late Mr. Ben l'epper took place on Thursday afternoon, and . was attended by a large number of reinI tives and friends, .tho latter including many old settler?.