Our Bunnythorpe Letter.

Manawatu Standard, 2 March 1889, Page 2

Our Bunnythorpe Letter.

(From our Own Correspondent.) Bunny thorpe, for the lust threo or four days, look" nlore ,ika 1J " m P aii oi 0,(1 t'liln nnvtliing else. Tho Gmoke is something fiMi'ful, Tlio strong winds mo cniTyiug the aslios in shower* all over the district, greatly to tlio annoy, mice of my lyiusokeowr, who cuuuplains bitterly to mo that she couldn't effect a clean wu-hing. If your ox correspondent who is, I am sorry to s;iy, no Washing ton h:is a b;ul conscie co, there is a chance for him to do penanca ; ashes are plentiful and sackcloth is very cheap. Tlio burns eflfecte.l -during the present weolt ui't! uhiully satisfactory ; some aro indeed vary eood. Mr Uollunrt, our lofl/il aawmiJJer, tin® rt busy ti.no r,f it just now ; lie lias received several oruers Mely for housi a ,o be built oa the new burns along tho Bnnnythorpo-Ashurst road. Mr Holland was ulsq fortnnatM cnoutjh to secure a sleeper contraot for the Aslmrst-Pal-inerston railway. With tho oxeoption of Timothy, the ha.'vost operations aro almost coinrace took phoa here tlio other day between the fjshmnn and the butcher. The fislmian, after having - sold oat all his fish but one, saw from afar off tho red cart of the butchcr coinin" nlong nt the rate of twelve mdeß an hour, tlio Hoareat house being about half a-foilo distant j and as his horse nad no Tone pedigree, it was auiusi.-ig to see the fisliman, with his last fish in one hand *lftd the reins in the other, hammering away at the pony and shouting from the top of his voice, fish-ho Hoover everything- is well that ends well-the flshraan gained the day ; he sold hw l.}»t fish before the butcher cams near enough to interfere. . The poll for No. 5 Ward takes place on Monday next at Messrs Bailey's saw. mill, Taonui. It is to bo hoped that every ratepayer in tho Ward records Ins voto in favour of ijieproposal, so that at last wa may get our tiiucli-neoded roadß j constructed. Twelve years in the mud j in quite long enough to my rainu. Bunnythorpa is still on the increase. ( Mr B. Tremewan, of A" 11 "" 1 ' 18 tlw j tattst srriYfl), *#4 mom will follow. |

Private^^^Hj^^^^Hj^^^ state in 1 being readiness besides the Twenty-fourth Infantrv, witnchaplaint. The Cavalry, who take their horses with them, will be armed with long rifles, instead of the mual short rifles. j Melboukne, February 97. The ltevs- Doctors Lind, (of Belfast), Macgregor, (of Edinburg), and Fraser (of London), will attend the forthcoming Presbyterian Jubilee iu this city. Four young men, named Batly, Wren, Meredith, and Minogue were sentenced to death for a criminal assault on a woman at Studley Park, on the outskirts of that city. March 1. Cohen and Scott, the two land brokers who were arrested on'a charge of selling more land than they owned, were tried to-day and were aaquittcd. Hewitt, the clerk of the Commercial Bank, who was arrested for committing a fraud on the Bank, has been sentenced to three months imprisonment ; and I'arrar, a stockjobber, who u'ns also implicated, received a sentence of two years 1 imprisonment.