Rangiwahia Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 21, 25 July 1894, Page 2

Rangiwahia Notes.

[FHOir OUK OWN CORRESPONDENT. J

Last Friday, while Mr S. Daw was driving into Rangiwahi, bis coach 3uddenly dropped into a nasty hole in the road. The jerk was so great that it broke the axle, consequently all the passengers had to walk the rest of their journey, Mr Daw carrying the mails on his back to their destination. The axle was repaired next day, in time for Mr Daw to dispatch his mails south.

The weather here of late has been exceedingly cold and wet. One settler was continually complaining to some friends of the bitter cold water which bad to be used for washing purposes, and someone, inclined for a joko, poured some hot water down his pump, which caused that settler to believe he had struck a hot spring.

Rangiwahia is so near the mountains that it is not only cold but the settlers are sometimes annoyed by rumbling noises, both night and day. Such has been the case the last few days, the uioanings or rumblings caused through the activity of Mt, Tongariro being very distinct.

Last Saturday evening Mr Moffatt held a social at his residence, quite a number of young people being present. Songs, recitations, etc., were given by a number of friends, and a pleasant evening was terminated with a few hours' dancing. It is such little gatherings as these that relieve the monotony of one's life in these back countries.

Property continues to change hands in and around Rangiwahia. Mr H. Bergerson has sold his blacksmithing establishment to Mr F. Saywell, of Saywell Bros., Feilding, at a very satisfactory figure. Mr Waid« has also sold his farm ot two hundred acres, in the Marton Block, to Mr A. Marigan.