Manawaru Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42774, 5 September 1905, Page 3

Manawaru Notes.

c [.Own Correspondent] : h lhe most important event which has *; taken place of late is the marriage of • Miss M. A. Baker to Mr G. Whi<e. '■ The happy couple have taken up their f abode in the house recently occupied by Mr M. C. Smith, and are going o milk bis* herd of cows for the Co- p. Congratulations and good wishes have been showered from all quarters upon

• ' the newly-married pair, and we s’.iir 5 cerely hope that all the joys and hap<pinness of this world will fall to their : lot. ; and that all prosperity may be theirs, ‘ Mr M. C. Smith has recently gone to the Gordon, where ho is milking up.wards of [one hundred cows . for Mr ‘ Bradey. ; ' , f Several of the farmers in this dis-j trict are contemplating taking legal proceedings against persons who tre-| pass on their farms—chiefly on Sun-! days—-for the purpose of hunting and! • shooting hares, ' - ' These 'people aiei - generally accompanied by dogs, which have greatly annoyed the farmers by ; running after, and frightening cows, especially those near calving. It is alleged- that quite a number of cows have died in the district from this cause. Mr J. Baker has now left the ft N.Z.D A. Creamery, and is now taking his milk,to the Co-op. ‘ We hear that a petition is being extensively signed at Aratiatia, with the object of calling the attention of ;.the authorities to the dangerous state of the road and cutting near Shaftesbury Bridge, - , ' ~ People here are looking forward to - the meeting to be held in the ManaWarn school on Tuesday n?x(l V !