PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4144, 22 June 1892, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(From Olir Own Goinpndtnt)

Pabiatua, Tuesday. Messrs Stevens and Gorton, Palmerston auctioneers, who bare recently built extensive saleyards on tbe Mangabao Road, held their first sale there on Friday hut, when all of tbe numerous lines in horned stock offered were quitted at good prices. This firm have always reoojjnised the practical contiguity of Puhiatua and Paluierston, and it is |ierhap3 owing in some measure to their persistent agitation that the road over the dividing range is now so nearly an established fact. '■'''•

Mrs Bacon, an old Wairarapa resident, and a pronounced enthusiast in! all philanthropic schemes, has, set a movement on foot to establish a cottage hospital for the county. The necessity for such an institution is daily becoming more apparent, and the objept deserves support, An en* tertaiument in aid of tbe funds- of the proposed institution was given in the Public Hall on Friday evening last which was fairly well patronised.

Clark v, Naylor, This action at law, in which we were promised new and startling developments in the poisoning tragedy, has, 1 understand, been discontinued owing to a technical irregularity in the plaintiff's statement of claim. A new writ has, or will be, issued immediately, to be heard at the next session of the Dixtriot Court,

A nice little gams of" catch-as-catoh-cnn" is at present being enjoyed by a seleot party of our public men. A J.P., solicitor, County Councillor, and the Pahiatua Star have each and all been endeavouring to solace themselves for being "played upon" at different times by other members of the coterie named. The wounds have rankled for years, and now it, would appear that the day of retaliation (or recrimination, shall I say ?) has come. All fresh developments are watched with interest by the populace, who really appear to me to have the best of the fun, The Rev. C. Penny, of Woodville, has suffered a sad bereavement. ; His eldest son (a lad. of 16) was swept from his horse while endeavouring to cross the Manawatu#river on Bator* day last, when the stream was considerably swollen by the late rains, All efforts to find the body of the unfortunate boy have so far proved unavailing, Much sympathy is felt for his parents in their trouble.