EKETAHUNA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3151, 12 March 1889, Page 2

EKETAHUNA.

(From Our Own Cqrrespondout). Mr Charles Goddard, blacksmith, one of our oldest residents met with a serious accident last week whilst shoeing a colt. It appears that the oolt knocked him down, and while on the ground kicked him on the head, He was picked up, unconscious, and, as he did not recover his souses by the. next morning Doctor Milno was Bent for,, and -arrived .here between 3 and 4on Tuesday afternoon.. Tho Doctor says that he is suffering from con. oussion of the brain. lam sorry: to. say that up to now, Monday 11, he has hot recovered consciousness, and seems to be getting weaker. '' On Monday 4, before Mr Andersen, J,P., John' Sheehan, alias Happy Jack, for being drunk and. disorderly and resisting the: police was sentenced to six weeks hard labor in tho Wellington gaol, We had a slight shook of earthquake on Tuesday sth at 3,80 p.m., and a very sharp shock of earthquake was felt on Wednesday 6th at 12.20 p.m., direction north and south. ,It frightened some of us. . ,

I hear that -Mr Bacon is making good headway with his flax mill at Alfredton. I believe another month will see it in full work. It will be a good thing for the disfriot, The petition that I mentioned last week re.Magistrate's Court here has been signed by every business person in Eketahuna, and forwarded to the Minister of Justice. I may mention that everyone about hero wished to sign it, but it was thought that it would bo better for the business people alone to sign it with the signature? also of tho two J.p.'s probably having more weight, Can anyone tell me.when the railway is going to bo open for traffic, and if there is going to be any opening ceremony, Wo. have sports hero on the 18th, and if the railway was open for traffic on that day, no doubt plenty of people (that being a holiday) would take advantage of the opening of the linetopoy us a visit,;