EKETAHUNA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3077, 11 December 1888, Page 2

EKETAHUNA.

charged by. keeping bis eleven o'clock at . night.' Two witnesses called by the police proved the cas6, arid' he was fined 20s and costs 28s,- tho conviction to be endorsed on his license.

A t a meeting of leaseholders convened by Mr Hodges, Mr Von Eeden in the chair, on Friday December 0, to consider the advitobleness of getting a loan from Government, under the Government Loaus to -Local Bodies Act, it was proposed by Mr Kellelier and seconded by Mr Beckman ami carried, that a loan of £6OO bo applied for to widen the road from Alfredton road to Syverson's corner, tho sum that may be received from the sale of frontages, will be devoted to the making of footpaths through the township. I beg to tender to Mr Deadman a hearty vote of thanks for the insight lie Jias given me of the feelings entertained by the Society of which he is a member, towards oue another. I

had a notion of joining the Society, in fact I believe I was proposed as a candidate. .1 must decline now with thanks to belong to a society that is mentioned by one of its lumbers as Hablo to cut ono another's throats. 1 don't fajow, Mr Ijditor, who is to blame, your printer or your correspondent for the sljp, but I certainly apologise to Miss l)owsott and Miss Hodder for the error that Mr. Deadman mentions. . The weather this last week lias been a lot liner than usual. Although we have had plenty of wind, we have had very-little rani, Everyone here is jiibjjaut oyer the pposod loan, if we get the loan in time to make the pd bpfofe t)je winter sets-in, it will be a blessing, we syijerod enough last winter,

s The Tender of Mr Power—£s4los been accepted "for the erection of the Wosleyaa meeting house, to he finished in six weeks from the time of signing contract. Rather a short time I should thing, considering the sort of weather we get hero. However, I suppose. Mr Power will do his best to finish the building in the time specified, or be will havo to pay the sum of ten shillings per day over the contract time. There was a cojisjfleraljle differencointhoainounts of the teii'der3, ftb.o 'lqwest |3 iiljpy'o) the highest boing 1115.