MANGAWEKA NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8941, 5 October 1907, Page 2

MANGAWEKA NOTES.

From Our Own Correspondent. The concert in connection with tho local school, to bo hold bn the 25tli iust., promises to eclipse anything put before a Maugaweka audience by the juveniles. Tho programme is a lengthy and varied one, and should command a bumper house. A new and live committee has been formed in connection with the local cemetery. Mr S. Dixon, the energetic secretary, has been busy supervising the erection of new boundary fences and clearing the sacred ground generally. To meet the expense a subscription list is going tho rounds and the business people have responded liberally. , A wedding of much interest took place at St. Mark’s Church on Wcduesdav, when Mr Ray Tausoy was married to Miss V. Harrisou. Tho coutracting parties are both local residents hero and received a largo number of useful and valuable presents. The honeymoon is to bo spent in the Hawke’s Bay district. A stray horse who had occasion to walk under the verandah of Mr D. Campbell’s tobacconist establishment to shelter from tho rain, accidentally put his foot through a pane of glass. Getting somou hat of a start tho horse made for Taihape and has not yet returned to meet his liability. Without an hour’s spell it lias rained in this part of tho district since God’s Own Country was christened the Dominion. There is no doubt it lias taken a lot of moisture to help the christening. Perhaps if they changed the name again it would change tiipresent aspect _of the weather. There is no sign of a break for a little sunshine.

Mr F. Stewart, who has been ail inmate of the Wanganui Hospital for the past mouth, returned home on Saturday 7 evening. Interviewing him as to the treatment be received, Air Stewart speaks in glowing terms with regard to the nurses and doctors connected with the institution. Although a trifle weak, Mr Stewart is looking very well after the operation he went through. ■ , , « Mr Hyde, an erstwhile settler of the Upper Tutaeuui, has purchased Messrs Moffat aud Goodwin’s property about six miles from herd; Messrs Moffat aud Goodwin have taken up laud in the Taranaki district.

Many slips have come down during the past week on almost every road leading into Maugaweka. The stock sales have suffered considerably on this account as well as vehicular traffic. Although October Ist was the opening dqy for trout fishing here I did not see many anglers journey to the river, nor did I hear of any fish stories. The Raugitikei River is at present in a muddy condition, and the Kawatan stream is in flood.