PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4033, 9 February 1892, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) On Friday ovening next a concert and general entertainment will : be given in the Public Hall in aid ot the widow and family of the late Mr John Quarterman, who was recently accidentally killed on the Eketahuni Relief Works, Mr J. H. Roe is the leading spirit in the matter. By the way, that reminds-me that we ore shortly to lose Mr Roe. He goes to Auckland, During his stay here he has made many friends from his entire willingness to assist in any entertainments, where one of his humorous reoitations has always been quite a sine qua rion in the evoning's programme, Mr Roe could always be counted upon, apart from any consideration of creed or opinion, and he will be much missed in the pjace, - The death roll still continues to increase in volume. It is with reqres [ have to record the decease of MrWilliam Baynein the Village Settle ment on Friday morning,in childbirth A large family of small children s left to the onre of the bereaved husband.

On Friday we experienced a : heavy thunderstorm,accompanied by a deluge of rain. The burns of several bush sections, which had just been set on fire, were.tliereby spoilt, notably Mr Gregory's in the Mangahao, Bidding was free and brisk at the Government land sale on' Friday, abnormally big prices being roalised for most of the, sections, A fueling prevails among the calm and collected portion of the folks here that many of the speculators will havo cause to regret their rashness. The attempt of the Woodville Jfeanwicr to further gratify the sordid taste of a portion of its subscribers with reading matter of a sensational type meets with general derision here. It is understood that Mr J, P. Clark—so far from acceding to the request to publish in that journal a statement of. his whereabouts on the night previous to the poisoning tragedy—recognises . the " cloven hoof" in the friendly (?) call upon him to do so.