36 YEARS AGO.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5451, 22 July 1929, Page 1

36 YEARS AGO.

(From the “Ohinemuri Gazette” of July 22, 1893.) LOCALS. The Te Aroha people are agitating for a borough. Mr Bush, of the local Bank of New Zealand, is convalescent, and recommences business on Monday. Mr Basley is also on the mend. We are in receipt of a new publication with the highly original name of "The Busy Bee.” It is published in Auckland, given away gratis, and is fair value for the price charged. We learn that Mr James Vuglar, late of Paeroa, has passed his pupil teachers’ examination. Miss MinnieShaw passed well, receiving 686 marks, not 668, as has been erroneously published. On Sunday evening last Mr George Ginn, the well-known builder, who was walking along a dark passage at Mr Williams’ boardinghouse, fell over a sleeping dog and broke his left leg below the knee. Dr. Cooper was in attendance and set the limb. Mr Ginn proceeded to the Thames Hospital on Wednesday morning per s.s. Paeroa, and is now, we are glad to say, progressing favourably.

A mail-coach fell 150 ft down a cliff at Lyell. Severe injuries were sustained by the passengers, but no deaths are recorded.

Messrs Powell and Bain are putting in a long cross-cut from the base of Earl’s Hill, with a view of cutting the reef which is believed to exist there. From time to time-splendid surface stone, boulders, etc., have been unearthed in the vicinity, and first-class dish prospects have been obtained from the adjacent creeks, and it is confidently believed that if the reef is cut it will be a big thing. The party are in about 90ft with their tunnel. TELEGRAPHIC. New Plymouth Dick Turpin Captured NED PLYMOUTH, last night. A man who is believed to be the long-sought highwayman was caught last night at about eleven o’clock. He bailed up the Criterion Hotel and presented a pistol at Mrs Cottier. Inspector Thompson’s son, Harold, who was in the hotel, knocked the man down. The highwayman fired, wounding young Thompson in the side, but not seriously. Assistance being at hand, the man was held down until the police arrived. His name is Wallath. He was dressed in volunteer uniform and had two revolvers loaded. He was brought up at the Police CouYt this morning.' WELLINGTON JOTTINGS. WELLINGTON, yesterday. The Government has promised Mr Palmer that, in view pf the loss the farmers sustain from pheasants destroying seed and young crops, they will take into consideration an amendment of the Game Laws so as to allow farmers to shoot game destroying their crops. Mr Turner is going to ask the Government if it intends to deal with the codlin moth pest by legislation this session. PASSING NOTES. Arbour Day is coming round agaiu, and with it the joyful prospect of the smudge-faced infant, with a longhandled shovel in one hand and a jam tart in the other, going out to plant the graveyard with that thing of beauty, the pinus.insignus, which is a joy for ever until it falls down and flattens the said infant out when he. gets big and goes out to view the work >f his han'K Also, we shall be happj to see the horticulturist of the 2nd standard coming home with his toe cut off by, a spade, and little Billy Smiff pulling up his macrocarpa to see how much the roots have grown. The Oriental plane,, brethren, is not planted by the aid of the sounding brass ; neither is the edible chestnut encouraged to sprout to the tinkling cymbal. Give the poor working man seven bob a day and he will verily plant more than the educational district of Auckland. That’s all about Arbour Day.