Waituna Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1896, Page 2

Waituna Notes.

Ffhom our on'x coheespondknt.l Tbe J.imbing this season promises to bii very good, and numbers of fine strong lambs are to be seen in all directions. The pastures an; in line order, and not barr as they too often are at this time of the year. Diphtheria has not quite abandoned Beaconsfie'd as two children recently sickened with it, but with the antitoxin treatment, the little ones were soon out of danger. The re-opening of the school is postponed until all possibility of other cases has passed. When Mr E Williams was engaged on Saturday at a horse-power machine cutting chart", he was doing something to the knives, when the horse moved with the result that lUr "Williams received such a severe cut on one of Ins aims that it was necessary for him to obtain surgical aid. Mr Rosd who is an old and respected resident here, is leaving for Auckland. He has acted as postniasteratßeaconsiield for some tin.c in which position he has given general satisfaction. T do net yet know who will be his successor. ' The Waituna bridge, which was ! dosed for repairs, is now open for rratiic. The roads are now kept quite clear of stock, and the ranger was so slack of work in that capacity the other day that he " ran in " a pet lanji>. LUes.: and tutkej-.s are io follow if the .settler.-: t)o riot become less considerate. Still the roids are all tho hotter because str.iy cattle do a lot of damage to the roads and watcrtnblcs in the cour c of a ye.ir, and the money to niakfi such d^nace good has to come nut of the pockets of the ratepayers whose properties a'ljoin the roads.