DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2237, 25 August 1914, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

■ • ' . 9 . — JOTTINGS FROM PROVINCIAL ;. CENTRES. (From Our Special Correspondents.) TAIHAPE. Mr. and Mrs...J. F. Studholme, of Ruanui, who have been spending a holiday in Fiji, are expected to arrive by tho Niagara. , . ' Three Maoris got away from the Na\ tivo village at Raetihi on. Thursday, nnd next day three cases of typhoid fever were reported at Taihape. Eleven cases of typhoid are being treated 'at the Raetihi Maori village, and. the health officer is experiencing some difficulty in'keeping infected persons isolated. Tho outbreak at Taihape is said to have been due to tho visit of Natives from the iniected district at Raetihi.

■, -On Saturday, the • final'; game of tho Rugby junior'championship was played, Pirates defeating Railway by 9 points to'nil'. -Railway ; had previously been defeated by i Pirates by 3 to nil, and both teams played one drawn game. The result of Saturday's • match gave Pirates.tho cup..', The death occurred at Taihape on Saturday of Mrs. E. Meaden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. -Hansen, of Taihape. Deceased leaves a husband and one daughter.

OTAKI.

An occideiit happened on Friday to Mrs. Robinson, an old resident. She: slipped on'some concrete, and broke a small; bone of her leg. A movement is on foot to resuscitate the'old Otaki Rifle Club. . Owing to the. Tainui Football Club being unable to raise a-team on' Saturday they were obliged to'forfeit to Tokomaru. , i. ,'...': A truck of timber, attached it the 3.30 goods train, became derailed north of Otaki'-on Saturday afternoon. - It was , some time, before the truck was got; on the line again.