PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 312, 26 September 1908, Page 16

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

IjEOU OUB BPimii CORKEa?Otn>ENTB.J, MASTEBTON, :. ' 'At a meeting of a local co-operative building society, a tender of. £90 was ■received for-a £300 allocation. Sis months'ago the same tender would not have been more than • £60. • 1 William Tunnicßffe, contractor, Kaiparoro, has .been, adjudged a bankrupt. . - • . Notwithstanding the tightness of, the money.market, the cash price of the 21b. loaf; is still '4d. in Masterton. • The Rev. W. E. and Mrs. Bromilow, of > Papua, arrived. in Masterton .by yesterday ; 1 afternoon's' Napier express. Mr. Bromilow lectured- last evening on'missionary work'in the Islands. To-day he will proceed to • Wellington. ' FEILDING.' ■ .A start is to-be-made on. Monday next with the erection of the.new pipe organ fortho Wesleyan Church, .and it is expected the organ will be,reaay for use by Christmas, the • instrument to have two manuals : with thirteen stops in -addition to the - , couplers. The total cost is £450. ■ Pastor. Swinerd, of the Baptist Church, has seriously strained himself, and is laid up. :Mr. D. .H. M'Lean, of Waituna West, has been requested to, stand for the Wai-, tuna Riding of the Kiwitea County Council in November,- and-will probably accede to the request. • Mr; .J. C. Skinner, consulting engineer . for the .Taranaki County Council, is at present on a visit to Feilding.' Yesterday-morn-ing Mr. Skinner had a look at various .works in the borough with Mr. W. J. Roche. In referring to the new bridge for Manchester Streets Mr. Skinner said ne had built sev-. i eral ferro-concrete bridges in .Taranaki, and . found them to be entirely satisfactory. They were much t cheaper than either steel or, :.- wood. : i ' ;. ' At the Marton Court on Thursday J. C. Miller,' inspector of stock, proceeded against G. C. Cameron for failing to send in his f sheep Teturns. A fine of £1, with 19s. costs, . / . was inflicted. . . \ : The animal meeting of the Feilding Centra i of the. New Zealand Athletic Union was held ! • ; yesterday (says., a Press Association mes- !■-, sage). The report stated that. a : Goverai.. ; ; mont measure forbidding betting at sportss.meetings would, greatly .purify sport.; Athletes wno had left the union in order to run at the Auckland gas-light meetings wero ! now , ondeavouring ,to enter the union; again, ~ new betting restrictions having stopped the gas-light meetings.