TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2913, 17 March 1891, Page 2

TE AWAMUTU.

Tub lloßiicui.TUiur, Socikty's Spitiai. I'uiZK List. — hi your issue nf Saturday Inst Mr H. W. Dyer as Hon. Sec. of the Show Committee states :—" It is diflioilt to see liow the cause for disappointment arises as there arc Ijl .special prizes offered, <.f the agqrefrate value of £52. This record, 1 venture to state, has never been previously reached in the history of the society." In contradict ion of the above, a reference! to the cat;'!.>..".ie of entries for 1S!)O, published prior to LTtii February. 1S!)O, shows that the number of special pri/.es at Te Avrainut:; ■!•> M tlio above ri.it". mil united to 101, while the asßretfato value totalled f>l Us !M. As a fact to ISUO, and before the Show day, the number i,f prizes readied 107, and the actual ai?grevalue ainouuted to £5G ."is 9d. 'Ju Awamutu Uavaluy.—We observe by the Uazcttu of sth March that His I'Ac-ei-leuoy the (lovernor has been pleased to appro vo of the Te Awamutu C iv.ilry volunteers beinc; formeil into a Mounted Infantry Corps, to be known as tin; Te Aw..iimtn Mounted Infantry Voion'ie.>i.-'. It h as well til vt the cmeral shouM lie made aware tint tliis (;han,- w ■■■s tl'.d ie-nll "f cintinue.il pressure .>n ti:.' pait ol tli.:so u-i.n, till recently, wens at the head ..! T.he Defence Uepurtin-Mi:.. All tlm provious

records find seniority of tin? corps minimi iiml the nitidis retain their coniK.iissi.m--. The uniform is not yet decided m«n, but will eon -ist iif an outlit similar to the Capo Mounted Ri(l-s including the broadbrimmed {.'it hut turned up (Ml one side. AIVIUKNT A , ! , THK K.AII.WAY STATION.--On Friday uvning last while Mr limvelt/s \va"ir.iii was being "loaded at thu Coods Shed tin; horses took fright at the engine and After going about fifty yards their progress was, however, slightly checked bv ono hind whc-el cmuiiiE in coiit.ct. with i. lel-.Mraph pint, thereby bnukiusr the ridge polo, and leaving tin; luck c.-iri-i.iyro agiinst the post. 15-ing again free, the horses darted oft' witli the fore-carriage, but had not g<>no f.;r b-fon; i,hr?y succeeded in parting company will) this, and turned the same over the hill into 1 the swamp adjoining the station grounds. Continuing their journey they made in the direction of Tβ Awamutu but were fortu--1 nately stopped before they reached the townsnip. The only actual damage to the 1 wa»g<ui amounted to a broken ridge pole ' and the loss of several b .Its. The horses ' attached to Mr W. J. Thompson's coal

waggon became so excited through seeing the other horses bolting, thut they started oit tun, but owing to a heavy loud being on the waggon they were soon captured.