PAHIATUA NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4716, 11 May 1894, Page 3

PAHIATUA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent,) (Thursday. At, the last meeting o£ the Borough Council nearly the whole of the ovening was taken np with the Mangatainoka Bridge diacußsion. In the absence of any communication from

J. W, Carr, engineer, of Napier, coun- ■" cillorß are rather in a quandary. With the construction of groinß tho tendency of the river will be to flow or cut a channel in the western bank of the river, and should a heavy flood occur in the meantime it is hard to say what 'damage may result.

The latest phase of the school diffico\v and tho dismissal of the infant mistreas, is that a number of matrons convened a meeting in the Town Hall, Mrs Cooper being in the chair, The object of the meoting was to protest against Miss Eeese's removal, and after much discussion was passed to the effect that this meeting protest .against Miss .Itecse being rpmovcti .from the position of infant mistress of and that a peli. carried round for signatures requesting that Miss Reese be reinstated to her former position.

Mksrs M/jKibbon,'| drapers and clothiers of M town, have disposed | rjf their business to an Auckland firm, : IlearnthatMrH,Beaumont; who sold his business here last season to .Mr 0. Brown, intends opening a general store at Makakahi.

A meeting of the Pahiatua Gymnasium Committee was held on Wednesday evening, when there was a large attendance. Several new members were elected, Donations of one guinea each were received from Messrs (i, Moore and 0. E. Beetham,to whom •votes of thanks were passed.