Local and General

Waipukurau Press, Issue 309, 17 September 1908, Page 5

Local and General

Richard Packer, who suffered a fractured arm and wrist by falling from a tree about three weeks ago. is now well on the way to recovery. The quarterly summoned meeting of the Loyal Tavistock Lodge, 1.0.0. F, M.U., will be held tomorrow evening. The hockey matches arranged to be played yesterday between teams representing Waipawa Sub-Asso-ciation and Dannevirke did not take place on account of the rain. Miss Cooper, milliner and ladies’ outfitter, announces that she is.opening up spring goods, and requests a visit of inspection. The monthly meeting of the Waipukurau School Committee will be held this evening at the school. Mr Hall, M.P., has been informed by the Postmaster-General that in future no subsidy will be asked for the running of the mail from Takapau to South Makaretu. ' Hitherto the settlers have subscribed £lO of the £4O paid for the service. On Friday afternoon, while using an iron-cutting machine in Mr Thomas’s smithy at Onga Onga, Ralph Broughton, aged 17, had his left hand drawn into the machine, thereby losing his index and second finger up to. the last joints. He was brought in to the Waipukurau Hospital, and is now progressing favourably. The Minister of Telegraphs, Sir Joseph Ward, has written to Mr C. Hall, M.P., in reference to the latter’s inquiry in the House abcut bureau communication between Waipukurau and Dannevirke, . infolding him that the required additional facilities will be available when the metallic circuit now in course of erection between Dannevirke and Napier has been completed, and that the circuit will enable Dannevirke residents 4;o communicate with Waipawa and Waipukurau, as well as Hastings and Napier. Mr Hall says that when this circuit is completed Takapau will be able to get its bureau. A Tsar of old, who caught a cold, _ Sent for his Empress, who was told It was her fault'. Then he lay hold Of his poor wife, and slew her 1 The tyrant’s crime was quite absurd I - She’d done her best, upon my word! But in these days folks had not heard Of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure I

Mr J. Winlove, who was elected a member of the Town Board yesterday, was the recipient of many congratulations to-day on the arrival of a son.

Mr Hall, M.P., has been . informed that the postal authorities have asked the Hawke’s Bay Land Board to set aside section No. 175 in the township of Tikokino, as a site for a post office. Good progress is being made with the railway station, and it is hoped to have the stationmaster’s office ready for occupation in a week’s time, and the rest of the building in a fortnight. A commencement has been made with the fitting up of the ironwork for the verandah.

Mr J. Bailey has received a letter from the secretary of the Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union thanking him for his services to Rugby in Hawke’s Bay, and expressing regret at his illness. Mr Bailey’s loss is keenly felt, the letter proceeds, his manliness on and off the field being appreciated by all. The hope is expressed that he will speedily recover his wonted health.

Gentle rain commenced to fall on Tuesday evening and continued throughout a great part of the night and the following day. The fall was much needed and is having a very beneficial effect on pastures. Up to 9 a.m. yesterday 0.30 in. of rain fell, and for the twenty-four hours ending at_ 9 o’clock this morning the fall was 0.36 in ; a total for the two days of 0.66 in. Yesterday afternoon a man named John Currie, who had come into Waipukurau to attend the horse sale, was riding along Russell street when the horse he was on fell, throwing him heavily. The man was removed to the Hospital, but at the time of going to press had not recovered consciousness. Currie comes from Wanstead, but had recently been ploughing at Hatuma.

Mr E. Reed, of the main street, had a peculiar find while diggingin his garden a few days ago. A few inches below the surface he came upon three upper sets of artificial teeth and one lower set. The three upper sets were clearly intended for three different people, because they differed materially in construction. Nothing is known as to how the teeth became buried in the garden or how long they had been there. Mr Arthur, dentist, to whom the teeth were shown, says they have been used, and the state of the vulcanite shows they must have been in the ground at least two years. He thinks it probable they were stolen from a surgery by some boy, who became frightened and buried them.