PROVINCIAL NEWS. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.)

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 255, 21 July 1908, Page 4

PROVINCIAL NEWS. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.)

PALMERSTON. ! At tho present time' tliero is a slackness of tho building trade in Manawatu and Feild- ' mg districts. A, timber merchant informs ■ our Manawatu correspondent' that this is ' partly due to tho high prico of building material -and also to tho prico, of timber. Ho mentioned instances where money-lenders were not inclined' to mako the necessary ad- , vances to those inclined to build. FEILDING. ' ] Oil Saturday a number of Feildirig golfers visited. Kimholton, and indulged in a friend- ■ ly game lVith the local team. The aggregate results gave an easy win to.Feilding. Tha i trip was ail enjoyable one to the visitors. The Rev. W. F. Stent will leavo to-day to take up his new position' as .curate to the . Rev. J. R. Cassell, at Hawera. For the second year in succession tho Feilding football club • has won the Manawatu championship. This district now holds tho cricket and. football shields, and t-lio championship .of both Islands for export butter (Cheltenham). ' . . - . \ ' A ;southern paper , stated'.that Mr. Ernest Short intended taking up some property in the Darling Downs district, Queensland. Mr. Short informs the "Star" that such, was not . the ease. He had never given a thought to tho Darling Down's." The Feeding-senior ' team of; footballers which won -the championship, on/Saturday 1 . contained ten players; who.'are fafnling on their awn. account, ; ,namely: ..Carroll (4), M'Nao (2), Whisker)' IShannori, Moxted, and Reid. .; In discussing a' letter from the ment Printer, .in which an order was solicited, for five volumes-of the consolidated public Acts,"at' a fee of £10 lQs.,.;tho Chairman of tho Kiwitea County Council on Sat--1 urday said he. did' not think they need givo an order for these volumes. They had the ; Acts of Parliament • ill tho county office,' and ' it would bo'much .better for them to spend 1 the £10 10s. on the'roads: The Council agreed wjth the Chairman, and it was decided not 1 to'place an order. j The Feilding water supply, was turned oil 1 again 011 Sunday evening,. ■ ' _ Mr.! R. Bourne,. engineer ;for ;t-he - Kiwitea County Council stated at Saturday's meet-. ing that- tliero were now plenty of. labouring' men in the county, and workmen were not so independent as they had been fyr some time. | Tho Main Trunk line beinjg almost completed, I the co-operative labourers were'being'released in large .numbers. Farmers .-were-',iiot em- ' ploying more' than- were'.necessary,-in-'yiew of ) low prices of their commodities',. .consequent- ■ ly there was not muoh demand: foj- '.men. -. •; woodtille:; , ■ The Rev. Mr. Ginger.on Sunday .evening 1 gave an address to a large-congregation, ' dealing with the action of the Wellington 1. Synod, on the No-License question.. Hebrew ! attention to the stand that Bishop .- Julius •had taken, also-a resolution passed--by tho ; Waipu Synod. " , . ; Tho ladies of the Benevolent' Society are arranging for a concert to raiso funds. So many- calls have* - b'een . made ;'upoa. the ■ society's-finances that the'amount rat their - disposal is not sufficient for the need.. ' For the. first time for some.-years past, there are now, .two empty- shops here, but ; it is difficult- to 'secure dwelling houses. Mr. Alf. Riches purposes leaving .this dis- ' ; trict and "taking up his residence at Tau- | maranui.. •- /■ • .r,- : ' ' GREYTOWN. ! On account of hef approaching 1 marriage, Miss Gerty Keedwell, of tho W ; F-C-A., Ltd., ; Was presented by tliQ employees'with'a hand. '■ some silver tea- and coftee service: Tho annual meeting of-tho local Working Men's Club was held last Saturday evening, Mr. W. Brunton in the chair. The report and balance-sheet, as read, were adopted. A great change, was .made-an tho officers, "tha election resulting, as follows:—President, Mr. Willjarn May; vice-president,. Mr. Walter C. Hpnry, J. ' Robertson, J. d; Ske'et) G. Hendry, G. Stevens, H. Workman; afid E.'-Dunn; auditors,' Messrs W. Thomipson-'alid 'A'.' L. Web ster..-' , ■;" ". - \ OTAKL "' ■> Tlie Rev. H. T. Stealey preached his fare< well sermons in the district oh Sunday, prior to' leaving to take up duties at the Clarovillo Maori College. He said that, to a large, extent, he regretted lie was leaving so many kind friends ueliind. IHo was pleased with. the spiritual welfare of the church, generally, but pointed out that he was unablo to devote ; more of his time among his'Otaki congrega- . i tio'n because of the large proportions of his j 1 district. .This difficulty 1 had now been oyer- . come, aiid the incoming vicar would only have Manakau, Otaki, and Te Horo in his charge. Mr; aiid Mrs. Stealey left; for Ciareville yesterday. - . ... Tho Kia Toa-Hui Mai '..'football., match on Saturday ■ resulted in a win'.for the Otaki team by a goal, (kicked by ,T..Parata) to nil. The game was . a-good;, piio/.r' Early in tlie first spell Henare Ra'wiri, ,the popular Otaki three-quarter,' and sentative. player, collided with .a 'player of the opposing 7 side arid , broke the small' bone ill : his right leg.. He was conveyed, to '.the hos- , pital. ■ '■ -; j ■ * Among the latest, patients -the- local j hospital is Mrs, 1 Clark, an; old! Native identity. ; She was engaged clioppi.ng. : ,wooa, when a piece flew up and struck lier oil tlie eye, ; making'.a nastygash.- . - . Mr. Horton Bright, writing from London,; / gives a graphic . description of- Derby Day, ' ' referring to it ; as! a siglit of a! lifetime. Ho expects to return to New; Zealand, with his , , party before Christmas.'/ '/'■; FEATIIERSTOJf. /: 1 Twenty-tliree' seagulls were observed on S ploughed section ot - ground, at' -Tawalia on | Friday. ' •. . :x - i 'Mr. J. C. Robbie,, who has held'the posi- \ tion of first • assistant at tho local; dairy fac-' ] tory'for tho past'two season's, has accepted tho managership of tho Barry's Bay. Factory, Banks Peninsula,. ! .■y ;. ' . PAIIAI'ARAUMTJ. . | It has frequently been a question hero how iho climate and atmosphero locally, are so ! much milder thaii'at other places on the samo.coast. When, a> blizzard is travelling through tho Wairarapa, leaving its' effects felt in Wellington and all along its"'way to ■; Palinerston, Paraparaumu is generally skip- j ped over. ■, : ' ' ■' . ' ' A- new hockey club' has beeii established, ' tho opening of which. took place last week,, when , the ladies,with'Miss Mollie; Lynch as . captain,, beat-a team of young''men-.by two goals. - ' ; ~'- , Mr. R. Dobson, who,has a large draining contract at Paekakariki Swamp; met with what might havo proved a very serious accident. It seems his partner placed a quantity M of blasting powder' in' a paper on the hob, i and Mr. Dobson, coming home in tho even- ' ing, commenced to get. his fire ready, and ! placod what he'thought was a piece of old j paper under the wood,'and then put a. lighted j match to it. An explosion was the result, ; doing considerable damage to tho, building, j and driving several largo splinters of wood j into Mr. Dobson's leg.. The unfortunate ; yoiuig man was conveyed home, where ho ii progressing favourably. /