PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3740, 19 February 1891, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(From Our Own Correspondent,)

A rumour that a local butchery has changed hands at a good figure is oiroulated. A pleasant sight met my eye today, when passing along the Main Road to Tutaekara. Messrs Hall and Best have had their oats cut, and it now lies stocked c,n the fields,' a pleasing augury ot'ttie'good *hi"ugs |tq come nere." ' The Mangatainoka School Committee, at their last meeting, intimated their intention of enforcing the compulsory clauses of the Education Act if the continued carelessness on the part of parents renders it necessary. A meeting in connection with the formation of a Farmer's Co-Opera-tive Company will be held in the Town Hall on Saturday, the Ist j inat,

Tenders for the erection of a public pound are called for by the County Council. What a state of dissatisfaction a few of our "literary" settlers will be in when they no longer have their pet grievance to dilate upon in the newspapers. It is not always a perfectly safe thing to give evidence for your friend "in trouble." Mr Gustave Barlow will have ample time to reflect upon this axiom during his enforced residence in Napier gaol in the time intervening between the present and the next sessions of the Supreme Court. Barlow's confusion under cross examination and the prisoner's (Ewartj statement, implicated him so clearly in the horse stealing case that he was immediately arrested.