Maraetaha Notes.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 666, 1 October 1891, Page 2

Maraetaha Notes.

[PHOM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.] September 26. In view 0! the recent moist weather and consequent prevalence of influenza it is in contemplation to present a petition to Mr Shrimski, praying him to bring in a Bill for the diminution of the risk of catching cold at such periods. It is considered that such a Bill will affect a much larger portion of the population than the one he proposes foCthe benefit (?) of (footballers. The fear of inundation caused by the en. eroaohment of the Waipaoa river on its hither banks has been removed by the late flood, which, on subsiding, showed the stream to have resumed its former channel. A considerable quantity of firewood, carried down by the fresh and oast on the Murewai beach, was secured by the natives, among the debris being a totara tree with a circumference of eighteen feet at the butt. The annual earemony of docking has again commenced with all its ordinary solemnity and pious invocations—Pakowai thia year taking the initiative in this district. Tallies are so far satisfactory, being in excess of 80 per cent. The lambs on Wairekaia look very well, and are apparently more numerous even than on preceding years, but in calculation of per centages, as in racing, the old adage holds good, “You never can tell till the numbers are up.” After years of waiting I have at last the pleasure of being able to record a few accidents—none of them very serious—not wholly unconnected with equestrianism. One sufferer who nobly devotes his time and talents to the gentle titillation of mother earth preparatory to the exercise of her risible faculties in the production of harvest, had a mean advantage taken of him by his gallant steed whilst lying prone on the bosom of the maternal relative before alluded to. The noble quadruped used his master’s leg as a bridge whereupon to cross a particularly muddy portion of one of our beautiful roads, and the result was a visit to your city by that down trodden individual for medical advice. The local schoolmaster also had to exchange active scholastic duties for the peaceful retirement of his virtuous couch for a few days, in consequence of a sudden meeting between his ribs and the hind feet of a youthful son of Daniel O'Rorke. Our gallant Jehu is still incapacitated from active exertion on account of the accident to his ankle which he sustained some little time ago, the fracture of a small bone in that portion of bis anatomy, though he still conducts his fiery team through rryiry wsyt! with his wonted skill.