Total Abstinence Festival at Kawau. (From a Correspondent.)

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 380, 5 December 1849, Page 3

Total Abstinence Festival at Kawau. (From a Correspondent.)

The celebration of the Tliiid Anniversary of the Kawnu Total Abstinence Society took place on the 18th November when 120 persons sat down to a public tea provided for the occasion. An evening meeting was afterward" held; Cuplam Nnuus presided, and introduced the business of the evening with u speech in which both amusement and instruction wcie happily blended. The report read on the occisiou was of a most encouraging chaiacter, ths society bavins; recently received a large accession ot new members, nearly one-half of the entiie population on the Island ure now acting upon Total Abstinence principle':. The meeting was then addressed by Messrs I'ulkinhornc, Williams, and Rowe, and at the conclusion 12 new signatures were obtained. The weather being rather unfavourable many were prevented from attending, it was tbeiefure determined to hold an adjourned meeting on the following Monduy ; the day pioved a lovely one, nnd nbout 70 persons again paitook. of the social repast, speeches were delivered on this occision by Messrs Wnlteis (chanman), Giibble, and Howe, 12 more wt-rc added to the number, and the meeting separated, all parties expressing themselves, us highly gtatified with the piorecdmgs o< u febiivtil which wit! not boou be forgotten.

Serious Accident at the Great Baiuueu, — On Friday week, Mr. Hoolc, while engaged in getting Mr- Barstow's cattle off the Great Harrier, was attacked by an old bull, which he was attempting to drive into the stockyard from which the cattle were to be shipped. He happened unfoitunately to be dismounted at the time, and although he succeeded in avoiding several charges, und in striking the bjnat sever.il times over the nose repeatedly with his stockwhip, he was at last knocked down und gored in the Bide. The hull then knelt upon linn, but did not offer to strike with his horns again, and ut last got up, and walked away. By this time assistance had come up, and! th > wounded man was conveyed 1o his whaie upon a stretcher hastily constructed of the girths of the stock-borfc, which w.is leached at list, sifter a tedious journey of eight hours. The barge which was to take away the cattle had b.cn driven on shore in the heavy easterly weather, and could not be got off until spring-tide ; in consequence of which, Mr. Hook was obliged to remain without surgical asbistance upon the island lor many days. Ho was brought into Auckland on Monday in a very weak mid exhausted state.

U£gs" The Buid of 11. M. 58th Regiment, by the per\nisMon of Lieut. Col. Wynynrd, will neil'orm in the Giounds in fiont of the old Government House, on to-morrow evening, from four till six o'clock.

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