FRASERTOEN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1383, 18 February 1905, Page 2

FRASERTOEN.

(From .Our Own February 16. A meeting of the committee of the Maru Maru Telephone Association was held in the Maru Maru Hotel on Saturday last. The line is now completed to Frasertown and the members, 14 in number, are all connected. Arrangements have been made with the Government for a supply of in strumeuts, but they are not yet to hand. The total cost of the 16 miles of line erected is £66. Each member provides his own 'phone at a cost of £5. Visitors from Gisborne and elsewhere say this is the best constructed private line they have seen. The wire is carried on dresßed manuka poles firmly secured to totara posts, well sunk in the ground. The settlers are to be congratulated on the independent and go-ahead spirit they have displayed, but at the same time it must be acknowledged that they received very liberal outside support, one well known firm having liberally donated £2O towards the undertaking. Mr Barton, S.M., held a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Clyde on the 15th. There was a largo charge sheet. A case brought by the polico against the licensoe I of the Frasertown Hotel for allowing card playing for drinks on his licensed premises was dismissed, the weight of the evidence being to the contrary. A charge brought by the polios against the licensee of the Clyde Hotel, of supplying a well known resident, who it was alleged j had already been “ looking on the wine when it was red,"' with liquor was also | dismissed on the same grounds. Over 600 sheep have passed through here from the Waikaremoana district this season. This establishes a record, and speaks well for the sheep producing capabilities of that locality. Mr Walter Bobson has sold his Waih property in the Waikaremoana districi

comprising 12,000 odd acres, to Mr George Heaslop, of Mohaka. It is also reported that Messrs O'Neill Bros, have sold their Ardkeen station, containing 11,000 odd acres, to a Mr Nielson.

I Mr T. E. Taylor, of Morere, has instructed Daigety and Co. to auction off the I whole of his valuable dairy herd at his yards on Monday, 2Qth inst. The Tangaroa arrived off the entrance on Tuesday morning,-and landed mails and passengers on the beach, the Tu Atu I being unable to get out to her. It is hoped that this bar improve sufficiently to allow the Tu Atu to tender her before she I leaves again.