MASTERTON NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 4

MASTERTON NEWS.

[FROM Otrn OWN COItIEsrONDENT.] Tho inaugural meeting of : the North Wairarapa Handicap Rifle Association, which opens at tho Fairview Rifle Range this morning, .should be a great success. Entries havo beeii received from/Dannevirkc,-Palmer3ton North, Wellington, 'ICketahuna, and. adjacent Wairarapa clubs, making nearly-70: in all. The local committee havo been • working hard in putting the range in first-class condition,. A new Thursday cricket club, to be known as the Rival Cricket Club, was formed at a mooting on Tuesday evening. Tho following officers wore elected:—Patron, Mr. A. TV. Hogg; ; presidents, Messrs. A. C. Major, C. E. Daniell, J. L. Murray, T. Porter, A. Henderson, A. W. Chapman, and Rov. A. T. Thompson; secretary, Mr. V. G, Darroch; treasurer, MiC'J. Gray {"'auditor, Mr. G. TV.■Spllar; general committee, Messrs. TV. Clarke, J. Gray, G. Thymic, J. Lomas, .and S. : M'Konzie. >.Th'o; election of . a captain was held over. The annual subscription was fixed at los." " " ' • " At .a meeting of the Workmen's Friend Building Society, on Tuesday evening, tho sum of £300 was. appropriated by sale. Mr. F. T. Harding was the highest tenderer at £90. ... His Honour District Judgo Haselden forwarded judgment on Tuesday in tho case of tho Deputy-Official Assignee v. J. B. Nicol, heard at tho last sitting of-tho District Court in Masterton. This was-a motion by the assignee calling, upon J. B. Nicol to show cause'wily ho should hot pay to the assigneo in the bankrupt estato of-F. B. 'M'Cay tile sum of £100 paid to. him by tho bankrupt on July 31, 1908, on the ground that such payment was a fraudulent preference. His Honour said he believed" that tho debtor : thought' he.'.way;'doing''-jthb--.i , ight thing to let Nicol haye'his money back,, but'tho/law'considered suph was ;i fraudulent, preference, and it could; not stand. His Honour ordered the defendant to refund to the District' Official Assignee ,£IOO in' the'estato of M'Cay, with solicitor's feo £7 75. : and Court costs 15s. '. . ' ■ ■ Mrs. Elizabeth Kingdon, wife ' of. • Mr. Samuel Kingdon, died 'oiV: Tuesday morning, after a lingering illness, aged 62 vears. Mrs. Kingdon; wss'._;b'qrn in Plymouth, England, and had " resided in.'Masterton for "30 years. She in survived by her.: husband, three-sons, and two daughters.