GREYTOWN NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5115, 28 August 1895, Page 2

GREYTOWN NEWS.

| From Our Own Correspondent, \ Wednesday, A subscription in aid of Mrs Loader, was stai'tod hero a week nr«tk i so ago, and already over £4O hus been collected. The case is a very deserving one. Mr Herbert Wilkie, of this town, who recently took up a soction of land in the Waimarino Block, Wanganui, met with a serions accident last Wednesday afternoon at i o'clock. It appears that while fell, ing a tree, it swung round and jammed him, causing internal injuries to the lower portion of the body, Fortunately he had engaged a young roan to assist him in his ' >yoyk a week preyious to qccitjent, anij - be, of course, went at once for assistance. It took twenty bushmen to get him out of the bush, a distance of ?7 miles, the track being knee-doep in mud, and it was not until 9 o clock .on Saturday evening that he arrived at {ho Wanganttj Hospital. Ho was taken in a canoe up the river to Wanganui, a distance of SO miles. The young fellow suf- v feredtorriblepain duringthejourney** .. Ho underwent an operation yesteflP' day, anda telegram was receive'd here stating that the operation was, so far, successful.

Quite a number of civil cases were board at the S.M. Court to-day, I hear that there are a laigq num jjej' of applicants' for the o|Bce of ■ 'Town Clerk, - "ampng" the' onmiiei beinj» a Borough Councillor." ' Quite'a number of unemployed £ kye beep engaged here by the Couq. cij stone-breaking,