Taratahi-Carterton Road Board.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2994, 4 September 1888, Page 2

Taratahi-Carterton Road Board.

BATUBDAY.

■ Thebrdiuary.niontlily meetingjqf '■'< the aboyo was Present: Messra/'"' H. R. Bunny (ohairman),;;Nii3racV-: J. Raynor, E, -W. Braithwaite, W. Parker, W, Bv Allen* Jas. Stevens and ft; Morgan. : '!M ■■ Tliemiriutes of the previous iheoK* ing were read and confirmed, '- . Correspondence was read from; M r ;■; TpwnaU;bh'bohalf of H; Stefenßirev payment for contiact at East tara- ■ ■ tahi. Resolved that, no notioe be j taken .of ;the, *!¥&& : J3hie>>' stating that.: the staff, was \ being/i reduced, and .advisd tho:B,oartl to@ employ a surveyor, S that tho member for the district be£ psked to bring Ithe matter;before' vProm tthe ; :.:Audit % Department cer|ifyihg lies? of fl drafted by l^e^ler(V:in^fer?nceftall piecejof dM Mmit ,to|-ffie } GomiaHVcp: aippomtod to- itf

.■■ tlio iovbral sawhiillers who liavo ~, on iho road was ';.' rend and approved of anil tlieterniH ~ submitted lb the sawmillorewho \voro ■ nil agreeable to aWo by them (with , tho exception, of one''Wan) in cons'o- '.' quenco of which the Board will, at ':■■:, thoiMext mooting tako into consider-, j Ration- tho of enforcing tho -whcei tire by-laws, and a committee i will bo appointed to draft'tho sitnio, I A deputation waited on tlio Board! to continue Woodlands road through to tho Waiugawa, river, but as there

is a big swamp to contend with, tho

Board considered that it could not *bo continued only, as far as the East Taratahi Road. (The deputation thanked the Board and withdraw. Mr T, A. Weston waited on bohalf of (he settlers on the Park Boad on the Board in roference to getting rid of the overflow of water on that road. Left in tho hands of the warden. ." | . At this stage an adjournment was made for luncli. On resuming tho Board wont' into A\o matter of adopting some method % respect to tho wheolta. It was moved by Mr Grace, seconded by Mr Braithwaito, that tho bylaws only effect the extraordinary

heavy tatftio of four wheeled waggons

without springs, and that all waggons ♦drawn by four horses shall havo live inch tires, and so on in proportion to tho number of horses. An amendmont was moved, by M r Morgan, seconded by Mr Stevens, that the mattor bo ; postponcd for two months. The amendment was carried. For

the amendment Tho Chairman,

Messrs Morgan. Stovons, Dorset and Allen. Against Messrs Parker. Braithwaite, Graco and Rayncr. Mr Morgan moved, Mr Parkor

seconded, that in future the specifications of any work to bo done for the Board ahull bo previously laid .onijhe table for the inspection of (lie Wardens beforo any works aro called for. Carried. Resolved that Mr Moncricfs offerto fell tho bush and clear the road 12ft wide, Para road, bo accepted. Resolved that 80s be spont towards strengthening the swing bridge at Maiarawa.

Mr Allen moved that nil work by horse and cart be done by tender. SjtThe motion was withdrawn by con'"'sent. Mr Derrick was instructed not to accept a boy as driver whon employing a horse and cart. • Tho following tenders were accepted Fencing 17 chains 90 links, Kokatau Road, A. Clifton at 9s per chain. Perry's road, 45} chains formation and metalling, Gardner and Co at £5919s tho job. 25 chains East Taratahi, formation and metalling, J. Kolioher at £1 7s Gd, per chain.

S,ome accounts too passed for payment and tho meeting terminated.

A Wontferfal Weapon.

According to all accounts tho new "Lobel" rifle is a wondrous weapon, and is destined to do terriblo things • in tho hands of French soldiers (writes the Paris correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph), The members of Academy of Medicine, wishing to ppiojnoso the physical consequences oi wounds inflicted by the bullets of the . gun, recently had experiments made on twenty corpses, probably those of paupers whom no-body owned, or thoao of ill-fated waifs picked" up at the morgue. The bodies were placed at the ordinary firing distances from 200 yards up to a mile or so. The bullets whizzed through the bones and , pierced them without fracturing them as Is dons by the bidlets of the' Urns rifle." The wounds, if they may be called so, which wore inflicted, wore Binall in their punctures, and conse juently very dangerous and difficult to heal, Injuries inflicted at short distances were so considerablo that, in the opinion of the surgeons, they would be almost incurable, At the longest range—2ooo metres—a poplar tree was hit, but the bullet, which

impelled a ortain quantity of air x Aeforoit, diduotgo through tho true. and through;. The discharge Wof the rifle is unaccompanied bysmoke, and the roporls are comparatively feeble,. ;

Why He Did Not 60 to thej . Hospital. My object in writing is two-fold: to express my g latitude for a groat benefit and to tell a short story which cannot fail to interest the feelings of many many others, It is all about myself, but I have |remarked that when a man Icils the honest truth about himself he is all the moro likoly to bo of uso to his fellowcreatures! To begin, then, you must : know I had long Vcn moro or less subject to attacks of bronchitis, a complaint that you aro awaro is Ycry common mid tnublesomo in Great Britain in certain seasons of tho year. Some months ai'o I had n very sovcro .turn of it, worse, 1 think than I ever had boforo. It was probably brought on by catching cold, as we aro all apt to do when wo least oxpect it. Weeks passed by, and my tioublo • proved to be very nbstiimto. It would not yield to mcdicine,and as I also began to havo violent racking pains in my limbs and back, I' became greatly alarmed. 1 t could neither eat nor sleep. If I had eu a feoble, sickly man, 1 should havo ouphtlessstrangely-of it; but as, on tno contrary, I was hearty and robust, I feared some new and torrible thing had got hold of me, which might make my strength of no avail against it. I say, that was the way I thought, Presently I could not even lie down for tho pain nil over my body. I asked my dootor.what Jio thought of. my condition, • and he frankly said, "I am sorry to have to toll you that you nro getting worse I" This so frightened my friends, as woll as myself, that they said, " Thomas, you' must go to the Hospital; it may be your vidjj oia/ice/or I j/b/" fiijtfdidn't want to go to the Hospital. Who does whon he thinks he can possibly get along without dointr it ? I am a laboring man with a large family depending on me for support, and I might almost as well be in my grave as to be laid ou my back in a hospital unable to lift a hand fof months, orGod knows how long. Bight at this point I had a thought flash across my mind like a streak of sunshino on a cloudy day. I had heard and read a good deal about Mother Soigel's , v-Curative Syrup, and Iresolvod, before to be taken to the hospital,! 'yjhould try that woll-known remedy. On I gavo up the doctors medicino and began taking tho Syrup, Mark the wonderful result 1 I had taken but three dosos within, twenty-four hours when I was seized with a fit of coughing, and throiv off tho phlegm and mucus off my chest by tho mouthful, The Syrup had ooseued and broken it up. Continuing .with tho syrup, tho racking pain Which I ' beliovo caino f torn the bitterand poison humours in my blood and joints, soon left mo entirely, and I folt like going to sleep, and I did sleep sound and quiet, Thenl felt hungry with a natural appo- ... tite, and as 1 nto 1 soon got strong and well. • IftU I cwiUlwp through the air with :' (Mightl ■. ';•.■■.• ■>: . ■■• : .'.:'"■ In a'week I was able logo to'my work again,., Jt doesn't seem ..possible, .yot.it ; 'is' true,'and the: ndighbors'-'know it. ThorS'areplonty 6f witnosscato Jprbve it. And theroforo when J sayl preach the good'nejisof the great powerof Solgel's %up Wciire pain ana disease far and ■''■'v%idiy«»bpJ?.'Villiyona«i9t;iri6;v'; , ;;'i. r i: ; 4p :: ' ; -"'' Thomas OABHtNO."; 1