PAHIATUA NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4697, 17 April 1894, Page 2

PAHIATUA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) •Monday. . The owners of the Union Hotel, > recently destroyed by fire, intend reereoting. The proposed hotel will be a much more commodious and orna. j mental structure. _ The adjourned inquest in connec tion with the destruction of this building fa lo be resunipd here before thw! S.M, on the 24th »4<^|mH Lithe recent cricket-match betweerr Pahiatua and Woodville the homo, team won by one wiokot, During tbe match they had a very rough experience the weather being of a most boisterous oharaoter.

The Empire Hotel here had a very narrow escape from being burned down a few nights ago. A candle being left alight upstairs; the curtains were carried (o it by a draught, and igniting, caused the fire to spread to other parts of the room, which when discovered was all ablaze, and with difficulty extinguished.

The late potato crop is being taken up, and the yields in nearly all case's are very satisfactory. From some patches of first cropping tho results are from 12 to M tons per acre. With the increased areas planted Pahiatua should Bupply the district this season,

We experienced severe frosts here both on' Sunday and Monday mumings. ■■ The ': result of tho Makakabi school was very faotory to parents and the head master, MrEvertnn. With two or. three exceptions the wholn of the scholars passed,

Some 500 natives and a number of Europeans assembled at Tahoraite last week to celebrate the unveiling of a marble monument, ereoted there in memory of a native chief named Wirihaua Mokopunn, who died'in 1892. However, owing lo the absence of some important chiefs tbe ceremony was adjourned to tho end of the present month. The statute is of Italian marble, imported from Italy at a cost of £SOO. i

Notwithstanding the; Government proclamation declaring the shooting season not open till the Ist of May, pigeons are being bagged alt overjthe district. On Sunday Banger Puckle, w '»o was passing through Hawera, hearing n shot fired in the busb.went in quest, and caught an offender redhanded. Ho seized the evidence, of guilt, in the shape of a pigeon, and proceeded to Pahiatua to lay an information through Const||bleTßb?er, The culprit will be detrf with at the next sittipg of 'tbe,C6urt hero.