WHAREAMA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2533, 24 February 1887, Page 2

WHAREAMA.

' The weather in this district has decidedly taken a change for the better, the extreme heat of the last two months' having given place to very much cooler weather, although rain seems to be almost as far off as ever. Should the long continued drought last much longer, there is every indication (that, feed will be as scarce in the approaching winter, as it was abundant in the spring of last year.; The district is, however, very much better off for water now, : enough having fallen to fill tank's', so much so that 'I hope we shall not suffer a water famine any more this summer. The attitude of the Government in not the resolution passed at the public meeting held in the Tonui Hall, concerning the removal of the Postmaster, and Telegraphist,- is i being very freely discussed. There is no doubt that it will be a source of great inconvenience to the pnblic to have all telegraphic communication stopped at uncertain intervals, and I hope to see some further move in the matter, There is, I believe,' some talk of the residents, of the district suitably acknowledging the courtesy and kindness of the late postmaster which they have one and all received at his hands, '' ■! A man named Allan, who was bringing a cart load of chaff to Tenui, ha'd a .very narrow escape of the loss of his; horses and cart on Monday afternoon. Coming up' the steep pinch this- side of the Taueru, the leader jibbed, and; the horse in the shafts being unable to hold the load, the' rolled back over tfye o|' tlje road, and was precipitatedcjowij the

bank, turning completely over in its descent,' but was brought to a standstill by tlioitruiili of a ti'es which for'tunately happened to be on tho edge of the creek. ■' Strange to Bay, neither the horses nor the cart appear to be very miibh worse' for the mishap. This makes the third accident of the kind during the last fortnight, all within a very few miles of each other.