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Waipukurau Press, Issue 9, 26 January 1906, Page 3

AVe hear that Mi’ F. Bassett has acquired the Takapau Hotel. Mr Bassett is well and favourably known in the district. A private cable records the death in Australia of Dr Reed, formerly of Waipukurau and Napier. A settler named Holder has discovered a female mpa near the Waihemo caves. The bird was dead, otherwise the finder couldn’t hold’er. so no moa need be said. Mr T. Wills represents the Waipawa Fire Brigade at the annual conference of Fire Brigades at Nelson. The New Zealand Rugby Union have decided to hold a reception of Ihe N.Z. football team on their arrival at Auckland. Consideration of the form of a souvenir to the team was postponed. The court reserved judgment in the Invercargill local option petition till next Wednesday. A Berne cable says : —Two miles of a mountain side is moving and threatening Chamoson and Guignay, in the canton of Valais. The inhabitants are panic stricken, and are fleeing. Mr J. Culver, general secretary of the Liberal and Labour Federation of N.Z., was at Wellington presented with an illuminated address and purse of sovereigns in recognition of his services to the party. The gathering was large and representative. The Waipawa constable is to be transferred to a Northern station. It was Constable Willcocks who assisted to arrest Ellis. An unfortunate accident occurred in Dunedin to a daughter of Professor Brown, of Auckland. The young lady was about to board a tramcar, when she was struck by a runaway express and knocked over. It is thought that, in addition to severe bruises, two or three ribs are broken. A found parcel of clothing has been left at this office.