Nuhaka North.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 169, 29 July 1901, Page 4

Nuhaka North.

(TIMES CORRESPONDENT.)

The weather here during the last three weeks has been very wet and stormy, with but an occasional glimpse of sunshine, and the nights have boon exceptionally cold. The rivers have boon unfordable at times. The roads, although bad in places, are not nearly in such a bad state as they were last winter. Horsemen get through fairly well, but it would bo a difficult matter to pilot a vehicle. There are numerous small slips on the road between Bartlett’s and Tarawa, which are blocking the water-tables and diverting the water on to the middle of the road, causing considerable damage. The muoh-talked-of foot-bridge over the Tunanui is at last finished, and will no doubt be a boon to setilot’s when the river is in a flooded state.

Mr J. Carswili has lately eroded a fiveroomed house on his section, and other settlers contemplate building, the Messrs Boss being busily engaged pit-sawing timber.

There is very little bush being felled in the district this season, and good axemen seem to be very scarce. Everything is very quiet here just now, and has been for some time past. Mail day is the only mild excitement to look forward to during the week.

A country teacher told her troubles to the Hawke’s Bay Education Board the other day as follows :—“ My house is almost a lake this morning, so bad that I am going to town to spend a eomfortab’c Sunday. The leakage is from the chimney in the kitchen to the centre of the room. Yesterday morning I got wet while cooking breakfast, and last night I could not face the same again, so went out and

begged tea.” From a lonely part of County Galway, about ten miles from Balliuasloe, comes a thrilling story of the bravery of a herd’s daughter, who lived with her father and brother in a little thatched cottage. Early on a recent morning, she found the house on fire. In the room where her father and brother slept, she discovered both lying unconscious in bed, overcome by the thick smoko which filled the house. At first, she had to fly from the room, unable to rouse the men, but afterwards she returned, and carried one after the other in her arms out of the burning building. She had scarcely tottered outside the door with her brother's unconscious form in her arms, when the roof fell in. As soon as assistance arrived, the two men were restored to consciousness. The girl was badly burned about the body. Don’t ever play with dynamite, In case it should explode, Beware of robbers late at night, And take the safest road. Don’t laugh at any little ill, But health at once secure, Bad coughs and colds arise from chill, Take Woods’ Guest Pm'Sßami Cuke.