Notes from Waituna West

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 114, 24 March 1892, Page 2

Notes from Waituna West

[from our own correspondent.] After a spell of very hot and dry weather, we are again getting some cool refreshing showers. At the beginning of the month we had a bad case of sunstroke. Mr H. Baer, of Waituna road, after taking a dray load of grass seed into Feilding complained of the heat making him feel queer, and on the following day brain fever set mi He was attended by Dr Mussin, and the neighbors assisted to nurse him. He has now nearly recovered front the effects. The departure of the Rev. W. Harris from the district was made the occasion for showing the appreciation in which the rev. gentleman was held, by those who had attended his services during the past four years, by presenting him with a purse of sovereigns. Mr McLaran has sold his section on the Waituna stream to Mr E. H. Crabb, of the Post Office Store, and, with a nnmber of other residents, has gone to Wellington to attend the land sales. Mr Rogers, of the Life Insurance fame, j gave one of his entertainments at Beaconsfield School the other evening, and succeeded in taking several scalps. | The Waituna aided school, under our popular teacher, Miss McDougall, is still | getting a good attendance, the accommodation now being scarcely sufficient for the number attending. I