PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4079, 2 April 1892, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(From Our Own Correspondent,) Pahiatua, Friday. The football season commenced last Saturday, when a scratch match was played between sides picked indiscriminately; from the Pahiatua and Hawera Clubs, and a good game resulted. A match with Eketahuna is arranged to take place here on Good Friday. . The new proprietor" of , the Riverbank Hotel, Makori (Mr J. O'Neill, late of the Victoria Hotel, Wellington) takes possession to'day, Arrangements have been made to put up a suitable building shortly on one of the sections purchased by Mr T. Cotter at the recent , ' Mr T. Hodgins' residence on the main road had a very narrow escape from fire yesterday, , the origin, of which is a mystery. A labourer working near noticed fire issuing from one of the window's and on giving the alarm to Mrs Hodgins (who was sitting in the kitchen quite unconscious of anything of tho sort) it was found that a considerable portion of a bed and bedding in one of the rooms was burned and the flame was just reaching the side wall. Assistance was obtained and the fire extinguished. A few minutes more and nothing would have saved it. The several close shavers irom loss by fire that have occurred here iropals one to the conclusion that it is quite time a bucket brigade, or something of tho sort, was stationed here, : Apropos of the continued wrangling that occurs in our - lower Court here one of the presiding justices on the recent cattle stealing case said he for one would not tolerate it any longer." Afterwards, on another squabble the prosecuting constable remarked to the counsel for the defence that bis conduct was in entire contravention of their unwritten agreenrn' made' before- entering .tho Court. Much laughter ensued upon the inn jured look of the constable as his remark was construed to mean - that they had agreed to preserve a gentlemanly demeanour and professional equanimity during the conducting of tho case. .