PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 50, 22 November 1907, Page 9

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

/ (from ora special correspondents.), ;" '■ ♦ ' ; . FEILDING. ; THE DAIRY. SCHOOL. The Feilding Chamber of Commerce sent an invitation to the Minister of Agriculture, through Mr. Lethbridge, to visit this district • boforo • tho Government' makes up its mmd definitely concerning tho. site of tho •dairy school. Mr. Lethbridgo has sent the .following telegram in reply:—"Have invited Mr. M'Nab to inspect the! Feildiug site for the dairy school. He has promised to doso. '~..-. .. ■ Tho Chamber of Commerce has called a , general meeting for Saturday morning to consider tho matter. Tho Wanganui Education Board showed its practical sympathy with the movement last night by granting the free use of the Technical School buildings in Feilding for tho purpose of the dairy; school. • . '. :

The Kimbolton Swimming Club opened its season on Wednesday with a sports meeting. Good labouring mon aro becoming so' 'scarce in our surrounding country that the ■county engineers are endeavouring to reconstruct the system of work and make better; provision to cope with tho undertakings. Mr. Mair, engineer for the Rangitikei County, Council, is taking tho lead in the matter, and'has circularised his brother engineers with'a view to finding out their moiits.i ■"-. : ■■■ ■ ■ Great .satisfaction is. felt throughout tha Kiwitoa parochial district at tho appoint*. inent by Bishop Wallis of tho Rev. J. Fj Mayo as minister in charge of tho district: Mr. Mayo came to the district a little ovoj. two years ago as curate %o the Rov. J. R., Cassell.. .The peopld aro now on tho look , out for another, curate to take tho place,' rendered-vacant' by the promotion of Mr.' .Mayo. ■■ It is,reported that a syndicate has. purchased a block of land in the northern end , of tho Feilding borough, 'which it intends ! to cut up and dispose of. in sections similar, , to the manner in which Dr. Johnston's es-t tato was. dealt with last week.There was some surprise in Feilding when , it becamb known that Mr.'W.-Hi N. Amos, who has' charge of the secondary classes at the Foilding. District High School, and who ■ is director-of-tho Feilding Technical .School,- i had ..resigned.those positions to take up aV position in Banks's Commercial College,"* Wellington. ■ ; ■ ;•' FEATHERSTON. [i_ A very pleasant social reunion was held 0n.,/, Tuesday evening by the members of the'i ' Featherston Glee Club and Orchestra. At" musical programme was rendered, and dnr- . ing the proceedings Dr. Palmer, the cons ductor, was presented with a silver cigar .. case. A hay stack belonging to Mr. John Hen-' derson, of Kahutara Road, Featherston,' was destroyed by fire on Monday night. It con- s . tained about ten tons. ■ ■- ■ >~'• PAHIATUA. • . ; ' On Tuesday night Mr. T. R. Cooper, of -. Messrs. Dalgotyand Co.,:who is being trans- 'i forred to Mastertbn, was presented with a-, purse.of sovereigns, and Mrs. Cooper with, a clock.'-. ■. ~ • ■:■■ ... .. - '.'■ '■' The.annual installation of officers of Lodge . Tararua took place at tho Masonic Hall, Brother C'tt Mitchell acting"as W.M. After ' . the ceremony members and visitors adjourned to the Club Hotel, where a banquet was held. : . At tho Magistrate's Court, a motorist was fined ss. and costs for ridiiig a motor bicycle , on the footpath. For allowing a horse to wanderat largo, a defe"ndant;was fined iOs.';' and. costs. Four young mon,- charged, with■'.-■ being unlawfully on licensed premises) were ; each fined'os. and costs. Several residents, . suinfiioiied' , under tlife' truancy w clauses oFtlio;" ■ EdiicatibivAct, were fined 2s"::.each and costs':''" Ono defendant, charged with drunkenness ' whilo in charge of a horse, was fined 20s. and costs. ... . ...

On Wednesday the Pahiatua Gun Club held ■a meeting to shoot for Mr. -Mitchell's medal, ' -Bobottom--killing ten.-out of twelve, and' securing first place. f Gleeson. was second,and Cooper, third. . , A second match '(five birds) was fired, Oxley and Sidey dividing tlio stakes, each killing the-possible , . '.-•'■ A saje of work in aid of St. Mark's' Church Debt Extinction Fund was oponed by the ' Mayor .'(Mr. D. Crowe) yesterday ifterribon. , ' A social was held in tho evening, , and whole affair proved a great success, upwards of £40-boing taken. Iti a , match between the Woodville and Pahiatua Tennis Clubs, played on tho local courts/ Pahiatua won. ,: .■'''.."' ■ — : — ' ■ ;'. ■;■ .;.■; ;. : levin. ... ; Mr. J. Collins, of Levin, met with a pah> fuls accident on Monday last. He and a friend were driving, when the horse shied and threw .them out. Mr. Collins was 4 thrown, forward, and the wheel'of the trap ran right across his nose, gashing and breaking it very, badly. Dr.- .Mackenzie operated on Mr.Collins,. and sewed the gash up, so that the > disfigurement will not bo very great. .. A meeting of the Borough Council was held on Mouday evening last. There wero present 1 ' the Mayor (Mr. B.R. Gardener), and Conn- ' cillprs Williams, Hall, Mackenzie, Ryder,- : Douglas, Levy, Prousc, and Hudson. A con- , siderablo amount of. correspondence was tended to. Amongst the other business, it" was decided that a deputation from the "'• Borough Council should wait on the Mana- ■■ watu Railway Company with tho object of in« ducing the company to "run. the Sunday train, which now gries as far as Otaki, right up to . Lovin. It was also proposed and seconded that the Mayor (Mr. Gardener) bo appointed tho Council's delegate on the Wellington and Wairarapa Charitable Aid Board, and on the . Wellington District Hospital Board. ; Inspector M. O'Brien, of tho Public Health Department, has been appointed inspector a' huisancos in Levin.