EKETAHUNA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3127, 12 February 1889, Page 2

EKETAHUNA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.};!: The weather during the latter part of jast week Nras. very hot mtli,light showers, but not sufficient of the~ latter to do harm to those' who' are' burning, their bush, Several' , ''hav(?;; taken advantage of the dry weather' to burn. It was quite exqiting here' last week. First'.there was Stirling's,: slaughter yard burnt down, - then the attempted suicide, and to crown all. and to enable us to compete with the larger-towns wo had a woman'in the lockup for drunkenness, '.

I was shown a curious freak of nature. A cat of one of our residents had kittens last week,'four in number, but those four were' all connected together in such a curious manner, :and all alive, -The mother suckles them in some way,;,To look afc'them they seem to be a mass of .legs and heads.. - •". ■■'„.. ■v,,A: meeting was hold inilr Tucks Hailion'Saturday. evening,-the object hcing'to get up sports bore for Easter. Mr Yon Eeden occupied the chair. A committee was formed and~Mr Selby was elected President, Mr Von Eeden Vice-President, Mr Bredrup, secretary and Mr Brenmhiel, treasurer*,, It was decided that as St. falls fan a Sunday, the'sports should.beheld ,on the'following Monday, /■■: 1 don't see many passing'this way in search of work. There .seems plenty here forthein todo if they will only-come this way.