Attempted Suicide

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 7, 26 June 1884, Page 2

Attempted Suicide

j(iPEB UNITED PBEBg ASSgciATl'^y.y ' ™ 4 A respectably- connected, girl, nauied Wrjght, was found jnsenslbjftiu,t lie surf jesterday af tert)66n; v titters "found .on liei- jJead to'tlitr belief rljarlr,iipf ce^^ST~Z a t'temuted/ suici^y » ; ifo l c'6nsec[ifonce ''of «/| heliriieissi)etra^r ujtliepidve>rr, !tui ° fi *- L

Meeting of Ratepayers at Taouv In accordance with advertisement, meeting of the ratepayer* of No. S War of the Maachsster Roid Board was hel in.the schoolrhouse, at Tjwn^i, on. Tuef da^y eveningj-for-tlte purpose>6f.diseussui tke'best means io' be used to" get a bridg erected across the Oroua River. "6n r the nipUoj^ or' 'Mr Macafliiur, M W^ißailey jiras voted- ;toshe ©hair, an read* tli© -«advei!ti«euiWife= from the Sta. calKttg the meeting; " HtJ then r callbd upcr Mr Macarlhur to explain the object of th ii'f' !iJ '•-'"'•ft !■'■ ,- tif ''' '■' ''■ •"■'" '-' m#tißß..,v ,;,<.- -y:.u . ■•'••■*:*■, y ■;•••• Mr Maeaithnrsaidub wa^ ndlniecessar for-him'tddHiteTippnithe necessity ofth fridge being 'erected,; 'The bridge was a; iaißj^apt ,. qjie, ,;a,B tj>ey,.,.p;eee all wel awiire.«nThej: road: was cleared /by th< GoWrniuenH -and We^e neld drf that, tk6%M^e Mould be t 'erected, 1 bu for'aiottg'time.uotlung; was done, ,-Hi got, a, .vote of JB3OO fro?i the Mana watu- County towards making the road Mr BulJ, Mr W. Bai%,- ana • himsel wafted upon the Mahiawatu; Road Board and^ a^tei.a geod deal o.f discusaioi thej. 'inanaged ; to geti £100 : for th( same object, 'last March he Appliei: to the Government tb : have tt declared a maiu rp^wiic^jj-as done. He explained to thef.meetißKvtlie'taode of getting the Tnonfey, for roads arid brides under th« Roads and Bridges .Construction Act. "Wh's't h'a4 '^o b^o, Considered was .the bcsl means of- raisin? ti»e one-fourth required by the Act. ..TliißlGdvfermnent' required thatjarr^ should be struck, and about this he saw sptue; difficulties, which he then {fjplajned.. .If the suspension of the Counties Act was granted the Board would be in a position to apply for a grant for the bridge, the ratepayers would, under any circumstances, have to vote for a special rale, which, however, ia all probability would never need to be collected, as the Board would pledge itself to pay the one fourth out of their ordinary reronue which would be increased after sus pensida by.: ferry •♦rentj; dog ' tbx, <fee. He iniguTTett "tlfem" that, applications for gruuU for bridges t*o«k precedence over those .fffn roads.,.. T;he Bpard .must stride a rntft -*od ,th:9;Jrat«payers must vote tor it: before the application for the bridge* fe'oi'rfd be' granted. '_ Several questions of an unimportant character , were; asked Mr- Macarthur, to which he replied, and the matter was then ' L dirfctts sed •in .a conversational manner. '_ - Mr Mijcarthur did not think it was for tke Chairinanof' tne^oard to say what was to_be_done. . Ho "had comejnereij to exjilain the matte&v und> must leave it for the ratepayers to make propositions as what was" best to' 1 be done; Al r Walter. %il^J. ,pr pposed the following resolution, That this meeting agrees that a.n application bp seat to t he. Government for a grant to erect a bridge : over the Oroua Eiver, and that-a special fa»e b,p struck to cover the amount of one fourth. - T ... This was seconded by Mr Bull, and carried unanimously. Mr Bray, the EnjjineeTTor the;B } oard laid the proiK>sedJj)laaOor_. theJindge upon th« tabU^^odjtljfser^nsi^ttniißed by some of those present. A rytßYif shanks, to the,Cl^iFman r and, to Mr* MacartHur "brought ' ttie meeting to a close. t i.:nr,v^ ■■■■:■ i*t "" U