DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 February 1917, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

OPUNAKE. (From Our Own Corespondent). An eviction took place on Thursd.iv The sheriff from New Plymouth, with Constables Clouston and O.Neill, went to the whare belonging to Mr. Ritson and proceeded to put his belongings to a place of safety outside the whare. The old gentleman obstructed, but that was useless. The law of eviction was read, and then the police demolished the whare, placed it in parts on a vehicle, and had it carted to the police yard, where it now lies. The person evicted considered he had a spiritual right to the land; he built'the whare, fenced and planted the land with fruit trees, and made other improvements costing a good deal of money. Holding this view he objected to the Agricultural Department using the Crown land. He has lived in possession for about 21 years. At the Magistrate's Court held here on Thursday judgment for plaintiff was given in the following cases:—Holmes and Arthur v. John Harrison, £l2 12s 4<l (£2 5s fid); A. li. Moore v. Alfred Shaw, £2 Os (ss) ; F. W. Hill v. A. J3. Cooper, £1 (12s); A. MacKeown v. Paora, £9 (£1): Richard Dunlop Barron v. John Harrison, £l2 l/s Cd ( £1 12s Gd); same. v. A. W. Briscoe, £2 10s (IBs); W. Lind and Co. v. Jane Kelly, £1 3s Id (15s). The following cases were adjourned, defendants having paid part of account and the adjournment fees:— J. Judson v. Bishop, Phillip Bros. v. Munga Bishop. In the judgment l sum. mons case of W. Coot v. M. Frandi, an order was made for 10a per week. A slander case and one of a disputed claim were adjourned till next Court day. TATARAMAIKA. (From Our Own Correspondent). If the war profits have taken unto themselves wings and flown away—''way in the euigkeit''—at least v;e can truly say ne have been experiencing war weather. It seems but yesterday since our paddocks were as brown "-s a gypsy, and as bare as one's hand; our tanks were as dry as Mokau, and when one walked over the grass is c>,.ckled like »ticks under a pot. Now we get a sort of erratic deluge daily, The advantages to be derived from taking one's partivs into complete confidence was fully illustrated at the meeting of shareholders held recently at the Patua factory, A certain point, which threatened to be a veritable little rift within the lute was so clearly dealt with by the directors and so lucidly explained by Mr. Cruickshank that the shareholders, both individually and collectively, wended their way homeward with a feeling akin to peace, perfect peace. A letter under the nom de plume of "Bush Woman" appeared in the News recently and among other casual items the writer stated "there was a terrible outcry made by the women who were sending their sons to the front." Now, I haven't heard any "outcry," One of my neighbors has' given two out of three sons, but she doesn't cry out; another, whose son died a hero's death, deeply mourns his sad end, but never a bitter word do his sorrowing parents utter; yet another has three bonny sons '•'somewhere in France," still that mother is outwardly calm; and my nearest