TINUI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2556, 24 March 1887, Page 2

TINUI.

[prom our own correspondent.]

j News was brought into the township f on Saturday evening of, a very sudden f death, whioh had taken place near .the Kohiwai station.-\ It appears that a '. settler, in a small way, named Kirby, ', who ; lived on Mr Meredith's boundary, , near.the'Waihoia.creek, and who was i ip, Tinui on. Friday-afternoon, was > taken ill while at Mr Carswell's Blairlogie Junction Hotel, on Saturday. ; morning. He was put into-, a'brake' and taken home, hut expired while oh the journey, just before teaching his . whare, .An inquest-was 'held on Monday before the Rev, J. C, Andrew who acted as coroner, when a verdict of" Death from natural causes" was brought in by the jury* ; Deceased has for some titoe past been'suffering from heart disease,' and. had 1 been under medical treatment .'for 'the' same, sp ■ that there is' scarcely 'any doubt but that heart, disease, was. the cause-of death. The body- was; subsequently brought t6'Thiui,and'h}terred in local cemetery, • • • • v;p, . ••• ■-> : y ■ A Bitting'of the Resident Magtfi trate's Court took. place',on Friday afternoon, inlhe Town Hall, VonSturmer,Esq. -In'thefirst 'case, called a young man was''fmed ; 40s and costs for using ''thre'atenibg and abusive language to; Mrs Owen, of the,.: Tinui Hotel.' A good number of. per'-' 30ns werejjresent, when the 'case- of ; theßsvJ;o.Andrew,fora.breaohof ; the Rabbit Act, was being heard; No doubt manywere .drawn by the know- ! ledge of;the'fact that'the.Rfiv- defend- 1 ant'inyaiiablf conducts his own .cases; - 1 in Court jand ! .l must say with great < success judging from results), and i looked forward to'-the proceedings-1 becoraingliyely and huinoroys. In •« this, however, they .were toapWinted,- ,f the R.M. steadily refusing fp'hear -J anything that was, irreleyftnt. ivAte ...

bearing the evidence of- witneases on both Yon Sturmer inflicted v a finelof.£2o. ' {.; •;"' anothero'f our settlers,- : ps ; tHen: charged with a breach of the fined £15./ : Tlie |erief al iopinion is that./ this; was justice, taking !'4U ! ,the Circumstances of■ both 'cases into consideration, but that'the penalty would have 'been materially lessened had not the defendant attributed the .ThegettlersJsvill;have,'no easy;.task 'the ySW impossible to keep them from ipeaj{■ ing during ttiepast hot weather.>. When' oncethe wet, season comes on r I think we shall see a visible decrease in the pest, as heavy rain- will drown them in their hopes, and.do more to diminish than'anything that'cftnbe done'during the present dry weather,''' We'were grea%! cheered on' Sunday by Beelng a'ltelegram ■from: the County Chairman posted' up stating that the Government had granted 'the loan. I see that some of the counties in the South Island have been placed in' a somewhat similarpredicament, through thcvagaries of .the Colonial; Treasurer and Bodies ; Loafr Act. V-' ; , '" Our' cribketef a have oncenibre come to grief, having received a very decided thrashing at the hands of Masterton. Surely, after this they will he wise | enough to.see that it is absolutely impossible to expect' to win a match i ;agaitist a -teani like Mastertonv who I are continually in practice',/ without I undergoing a lot of preparation ia the: shape of playing .together.- I should yerymu.cfi.liketo■jeea football club started tliis winter, for we have some very- good- representative men, from whom I think a team could be picked that would make a very close match with any of the country teams, ; '" '