Frasertown Notes.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 209, 10 September 1901, Page 3

Frasertown Notes.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

A branch of the Farmers’ Union has been started in this district. A meeting of farmers was held in the County Hall on Friday, when the pros and eons of the affair wore discussed. The general opinion appeared to be that it was high time the farmers combined in their own defence. All those present at the meeting joined the Union. Mr A. G. C. Glass, the organising secretary (who, by the way, was formerly a resident of Frasertown), had intended coming through to start the ball rolling, but pressure of business elsewhere prevented him. Influenza has been raging here for some time. Very few seem to escape it. Mr and Mrs j. Torbett, of Waihanui, have had the misfortune to lose their youngest child, a boy about eighteen months old. The little fellow was playing about on Sunday evening, and on Monday morning had developed what was thought to be an attack of croup. Dr Thomson was called in, and found the child a j at (i'tphtheriu,, Tracheotomy had to be resorted to, and it was hoped | that the little sufferer would pull through, but he passed away on W ednesday morning. Mr Torbett, who had been on a trip to°Wellington, leaving the children well, returned by the steamer on Tuesday morning to find one of them in the clutches of a fatal disease. Much sympathy is felt for the parents, more especially as Mrs Torbett herself has only just recovered from a serious illness.