PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2941, 4 July 1888, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

, (From an Occasional Correspondent.)/^! A. naurow escape from drowning ~v: , occurred here on' Saturday last. A ' man mimed McDonald attempted to cross the Mangatainoka river at' tlio T- S wrong ford, His horse got out of, his"; • depth, and McDonald was washed"off/ and landed upon a large rjAMog iu- . the centre of the river.stayed /' tin ro for flome considerablelength o£ ' time, but finding no ono coming to his " help he divested himself of his clothing-; £ and swam to land, leaving his clothing .y on the log, He reached the township . ';,:'? (after having borrowed a tgwld '' i clothes from a.settlerj in a "sljSing condition, otherwise but littfljthe' Vi'J worse of his mishap, " Moral: Rivers want bridging. To-day two frosk'hotels are being T '-v. opened by Mr Orewo j o»*j culled tho . ■ Club Hotel, in Pahiatua township, and-' liceiwed by the Pahiatua Licensing. ,>.f Committee. The other, I mideratand; /- r ;.' is to bo designated the Dudley Amis v Hotel, and is situated miles north of the Pahiatua township,\ on tho main road to licensed by the Alfredton Licensing f Committee. Time will tell these extra hotels aie or are not required ' ; There appears to bo a fair show of Trl the Counties Act Bill, ■' brought forward by Mr Smi'for the purpose ol constituting -the present V's Pahiatua Biding of Wairarapa North -'fe County a eepavato' County, becoming ■;£; law. ■ The Bill has passed ite, reading by a large ..majority. l ;.- villo people (at least some of them)' pi object j why, I knowinot, unless httlo jnalousy on their part, One could understand 'hese ■ objeotipiis' Pahiatua was a part and parcel"ofthi)|§|| Waipawa County, As tho mjttep^'

-,;.>y a^.,-- ■■■■ v' .'■. 6ta.ntiß. now, tlioir objections are both ~ .■.,.,..- selfish and; nonsensical, and not to their • ,• best interest. ' .... . , ; Tho bridge over the Tiranmea river v into the township of Kuitawa ig pro- -> ceeding liut slowly, The winter ; ■■■ weather is very much against Iho contractor pushing on tho work, so that in ■> all probability it will be some time late next summer beforo it is finished. This is to ho regretted, us the erection is oiii l o£ ui(;oucy.