TAUERU.
(B'rom an Occasional Correspondent.) A most enjoyable picnic was hold on Saturday, the Prince of Wales' Birthday and great credit is due to the promoters and especially to, the Misses Gazzard who spared neither time nor trouble in maliingthftgathering a success. There was ini abundance of good things provided and enough left to give the youngsters a treat on the Monday following. Tho local iauger was on tho warpath on Sunday morning. All the » week we have had a cow running the 'f roads, not only the roads but the V people. On Sunday the ranger thought he would" nab" it, as it was within fifty yards of the pound gate. But the terror of the place, namely, the toll-gate, was shut so he got it opened for him to get to the pound and instead of the man getting in front of the cow to stop it, he quietly walked after it, and the cow cleared off whence it came, somewhere from the coast. He then said that it was the poor poundkeeper's fault for not having tho pound empty, there being a hori-'e in one of the yards. It would not be a bad idea for tho County Council to build him a race. Fancy a man with full faculties running after a wild cow from some stations on tho coast on foot,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3359, 13 November 1889, Page 2
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226TAUERU. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3359, 13 November 1889, Page 2
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