WHAREAMA NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4886, 26 November 1894, Page 2

WHAREAMA NOTES.

■• (Frydra;puv':pwn Correspondent); ~:^& ■\We\e6Mi%m have fallen all over; f the district, and there is a noticeablo. % difference, already in the growth o • s the grass and Crops. :V '•■"••-.'< 'i-Mr-W.-; AvySmitlr-pfW ; ;} met wiiH a ibriquß accident. Homs tiiiwvii from his brigand received a severe injury to his shonlderf •■ Ho ). was attended' to" by~Div DawlbX of ::: Tinui.. , ,-■■:. .„....; ",-■',.•'. ' • ;Maika. : ;,. "Old Mike," a-rtdiwhata Ifaon*on ' returning homo'the other day dis-':> covered that someone had burglari- ■ ouslj entered his house, examination he foundfthat'liis visi-'..•';■' toi , s,two'innumber;haid hot departed and were busily -engaged making ,: swags of sundry articles such as 'clothes,' food -and*toliacSo.- *Miko resolved to 1 give them a warm recep- ; tion, and- arming 'himself MM'. a stout manuka stick he vento'd in, As he approached .'the- door the two swaggers, for such Jhoy; proved to be,,.'bolted, out of fltefyhe first one' by. deaM'him in true: Hibernian atyle'a'TOvy on the'.hinder';half^of.tlie! : ;h6a^ j |nd ' pursued' the' other one into the Kaiwhak river, from;;thence ho escaped :• half drowned and' did not stop running, until,ho reached Plat ! Point.'. The other'iridividnal, after 1 recoveringhis senses, was allowed'.to depart without further molestation^ ■ It is a pity that another person j who lias an nnmistakablei.weakness ■ i for lifting'other'people's mutton, . sheep-skins, and'fencing wire,'front I .these parte, could not be brought > within lmh of Old Mike's shillelah; 1 "'*A. native pigeon's nest with one ' egg in it was discovered by Master Harold Bennett on the 16th inst,, • in the bush on the East Coast. The ■ nest is built in a low scrubby tree, and consists of a fow twigs and sticks 1 laid across each other. Tho female b bird site quietly on tho nest, and will let anyone approach within thrco or four foot of the nost without appoaring disturbed.