HAWERA.

Patea Mail, 14 June 1881, Page 3

HAWERA.

The Mail has over 90 subscribers between Manutahi and Stratford.

BRANCH OFFICE OF THE MAIL , Monday Evening. It is always a "sure sign of progress when people think it worth while to pay £3O a year for a publican’s license, for keeping an hotel is not such enviable occupation that people rush into it without being sure of making money. Mr Owen obtained a license for the Oeo Hotel at last sitting of the Licensing Court in New Plymouth, and Mr Prosser got a guarantee of a license for his new hotel at Opunaki. I hear that it is likely another house will be erected at Manaia. At the R.M. Court on Thursday, before Captain Wray, the case Town Board v. John Burton, re brewery refuse nuisance, after being adjourned three or four times, came on. The Bench found that the nuisance did exist, but as this was the first case of the kind, the defendant was let off with a caution. W. Prosser v. F. Bailey ; claim £4O for entire horse Papawai. This case is the result of one of the many horse transactions of W. Stannard. It would seem that he had given the horse, with a clean receipt, to W. Prosser, in consideration of his backing Stannard’s bill for £lB. A little while after he sold the horse to Frank Bailey without Prosser’s consent. The case lasted a considerable (ime, and the Court determined to reserve judgment until next Court day. An A.C. man named Packer met with rather a nasty accident the other day while working in a gravel pit. It appears that some of the loose gravel fell on top of him, inflicting some rather nasty body bruises. The Cricket Club are rather short of funds, and in order to raise the needful they propose getting up a concert next week.