DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 104, 31 May 1909, Page 4

DISTRICT NEWS.

OAKUUA. (From Our Own. Correspondent.) We have experienced first-class weather out Irere lately; in fact, we have had v an, exceedingly good autumn anu early part of the winter. There has been no sci ere frost, and so, of course, feed is plentiful. Most people have been busy with their threshing and chaff-cutting. Mr. Johnston's combine and chaff-cutter lias been in the district for the last fortnight, and there is now a plentiful sunply of wheat, oats, and chau to be had at reasonable figures. Several far"adding on to their chaff and storing it, hoping for a better price later. - JE3 has been refused at the stack for some 0 f jt, ->

V~" 1 The stone crusher from up the Pctone '"' Koad passed through here this morning. v It has been stuck in the mud up there i r for. the last fortnight, but managed to f-' get out at last. % A young man employed by Mr. \\ ilkie 't ' had the misfortune to fall off his horse i a fv.w dajs ago and break His leg. He I' was getting on the horse bare-backed, J when it cantered off before lie was properly seated, and he was struck by the hors'e when falling off, breaking his leg F 'below lite knee. Mr. Wilkie immediately e conveyed the ftifferer to the hospital, where he is progressing favorably. " There was a match fired here last •' ' JMondav between the Okato Rifle Clun *■ and our local boys, which ended in Okato £ «inning bj 29 points. * . Mr Grover's, gig and horse myster.Y ously disappeared from here on Monday t' , , night, leaving him stranded on bis way r ' aonie from town. However, it turned i? up again a few days later, just as !L\ jn\»tenon«ly. He was to luive iwcn f among those who were shooting against Okato, but prepared to go to town that % daV and shoot for the Guards, and n:s VV' absence had a good deal to do with ou' :* local Inn". l»ing beaten. It is gener- ■** ally believed that a.practical joke was &■' plajcd on him to pay him out for for&f sakine the local team. k-i. Our new storekeeper, Mr. I. Aroa, i l *' is pushing his business along, and is t\ running his delivery van right Uroug i Wi Okato twice a week, and is being we i feV supportsd right down the coast He <«• it "having a large, bulk store bmlt lienF next week on the ground where th" m>' Hbrary now stands, and the M™?'* g?v - to be shifted elsewhere. We wish hi m W l ' success, as he .seems energetic and en $' terprising. , P< The hounds meet out here at Mr. G. t». W' Grover's farm next Thursday; the horses ft «e being fed up, and local sports ari W looking to girths and stirrup leatli r, g£ *opine to lave a good day's outing. A M** da*e is to be Ueld iu the evening after I hunt; .■' ■ i