FRASERTOWN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1365, 28 January 1905, Page 2

FRASERTOWN.

[(From Our Own Correspondent.) January 26.

An unfortunate accident befell a man named Harry Hull, cook for McGaffin’s road metalling party on tho Waikaremoana road. The party were shifting camp on Monday last, and as tho waggons loaded with the camp equippage moved off, Hull, who was seated on top of one of the loads, fell off on to tho road and was trodden on by one of tbe horses in the waggon immediately following, sustaining injuries of a serious, and it is fearod fatal, nature. Medical aid was obtained, and later in tbo day tbe sufferer was removed, to the Wairoa Hospital. Hull would appear to have been born under an unlucky star, as ho broke bis leg at Mohaka only a short time ago, and this was tho first work hB had been able to do since.

The Hurumua Mounted Rifles are undergoing their annual week’s training under canvas. Captain Bax is in mand. Sergeant-Major Tuck, staff instructor, drills the men twice a day. A detachment of the East Coast Mounted Rifles arrived on Monday to take part in the manoeuvres.

Burning off is She order of the day, and the country in consequence ia enveloped in smoke. It is years since aheepfarmers had such a favorable season for burning. A Maori boy belonging to this plaoc, but who baa been living in the Napier district, died there recently, and the relatives went down to bring tho body back here for interment. They returned by tho Tangaroa yesterday with the remains, and proceed to Pakowbai, where a tangi ia in progress. From thence they proceed to Eangiahua, where an extended tangi will b 9 held and the body will be interred. Aa the boy baa been dead now for over a week, the condition of the body can be more easily imagined than described. It is time this unsanitary habit of the natives of keeping their dead so long unburied for the purpose of tangi-ing over them was prohibited.