PAHIATUA NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4640, 6 February 1894, Page 2

PAHIATUA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent,) .

We experienced a gale of exceptional violence and destructiveness in this district, during the whole of Friday night.' Trees .and limbs of trees were hurled about in all direc tioDB, and I expsot to hear of damage to stock. A tent and its contents near the railway line at Tutaekara,. was blown completely awny.and nob a vestage of it was to be seen next morning. In the town, boards, oases. and sheets of corrugated iron, were being aent flying about in a most' playful rnanuer, and in the orchards where fruit trees were not well sheltered, apples and other fro.it ra all shaken off. . JU Jjjj We were treated to ahake during Friday.-nighi, though only a ;nld ono,"lasting but a few. seconds. Earthquakes have been very frequent here this seaeon, more, occurring than for many yeacfetst,. 1 .

Pahiatua was thrown into a state of excitement on Saturday morning, when rather, a fashionable wedding was celebrated, the contracting parties being Mr Mat Raines, formerly of 'Wellington and now a resident of Pahiatua, and Miss Glover, well and favourably known in connection with the Commercial Hotel. The Rev, Father McKenna officiated. The happy couple left for Wellington daring the day, being accompanied to theWoodyille Railway Station by a number of friends.

'i'ha voting for the proposed loan for bridging the Mangabao river at Ballance resulted in a failure, owing to tha apathy of some settlers and absentees, which is a source of regret and loss to the Mangahao generally, With the bridging of this river- it meant increased traffic, apart from the safety to the travelling public.

The question of the bridge over the Maogatainoka is bung up for it while, The Government granted £SOO on condition that the whole river bed be covered from the eastern bauk to the bush on tho opposite side, which' inenns nearly double the cost of the hiUjje places submitted by the Engineers and also the design adopted, the Borough Councillors object to the extra length of bridge having made all arrangements for a loan according to designs accepted and His Worship the M&yorjgnd Mr Councillor Vile proceed to TOinglon as, a deputation to interview the Government on the subjeot.