HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 421, 30 April 1879, Page 2

HAWERA.

(from our own correspondent.) An accident occurred last Saturday, which might have proved fatal, but luckily did not. Mr;G-. Dyer’s man was coming back from Pa tea with a loaded dray and four horses, when coming down the Manawapou Hill, one of the horses took fright, and the whole team set off at a break-neck pace; when comming to.one of the bends, they could not turn quick enough, and the whole team went over the catting, the draj being smashed, and the goods sent flying. Fortunately the shafts broke just before they went over, so that the horses were able to keep out ofjthe way, and were not hurt. The man held on as long as he could to.the shaft horse, but found he had to let go just before they disappeared over the cutting. It was lucky that he did, or he would undoubtedly have been crushed to death, there being about tons on the dray. It seems that carters court accidents, as they send a team away with one man, and in the small drays where they cannot put two horses abreast, it is next door to impossibJe for the man to liave control over the horses. I should think it would be a lesson to some of them.

The Acclimatization Society Commiteo mot on Friday last, the 25th instant, when £SO worth of trout, £2O of perch, and £2O of hares, were ordered. Game licenses will be issued in the coarse of a few clays. I hope the settlers in the Patea and Waverley districts will subscribe liberally, as the Committee intend giving them a shave of the fish, game, &c., according to the amount of subscriptions received.

The tenders for Mr Prosser’s new hotel have been opened, Mr Wallace, of Normanby, being the successful tenderer. When the building is finished, I think, from what I have heard, it will be one of the finest hotels on the coast.

Sundry unpleasant rumours appear to be goin-j- abroad about the natives ordering settlers off their places, but I think most of theta originate from some lew persons whose fertility of brain is especially adapted for Maori scares, &c. In one case, though, I believe there is some truth, ami that is Mr C. Cameron’s. Ho was told he would have to clear out by a native, but when the other natives from that part heard it, indignation was depicted on their noble countenances, and throats of chastising the offender wore heard, but I don’t think he got it, as Mr Cameron does not know who he was.