PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 341, 30 October 1908, Page 10

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

(FROJI OtJE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.)

PAHIATUA,

At Mangatainoka yesterday .. afternoon teams representing the Pahiatua and Mangatainoka cricket clubs played a friendly game, the former team winning by the small majority of two runs. "The wicket was decidedly in favour of the bowling, the scoring on both sides being small, only ouo' player reaching double figures.'

OTAEI,

Frank Rumsey, an old offender, was brought before iMessrs. Bennett and Freo- . s i. yesterday on two charges, one with being drunk while in charge of a horse and cart, and the sccond for assault on Henry Milburn. On the former charge he was convicted and discharged, and on the second fined £5, in default one months' imprisonment. Defendant was given 48 hours in which to pay the amount. A quiet wedding was solemnised in the Maori Mission Church yesterday afternoon, when Mr. To (Joe) Ropata, the well-known footballer, was married to Miss Marewa Hemi Kupa. Tho wedding service was conducted by tho Rov. Temiic'ra, supported by the Rev. Cecil J. Smith. The,bride was prettily attired in cream silk.

A fortnight ago a horso owned by a cabman named Garote bolted; and in its career collided with the shaft of a buggy, which penetrated under the hip and found its waj through the buttocks, a depth of 28 inches.; Tho horse continued its mad gallop, with the result that the piece of sliaft. which had snapped from the main, 1 worked partly back, and was then forced by the continued galloping into the side of the poor beast. The piece of shaft was extracted by Mr.'A. Knocks, and although the-wounds are ugly gashes tho animal seems but little the worse.

FEATHERSTON

The ratepayers of the Kahutara River District have decided to take a poll as to borrowing £4000 to be expended in a stop-bank on the Ruamahanga River. -. The Gun Club, has re-elected Mr. C. Burt chairman for the ensuing year. The opening shoot takes place on Saturday week, and a six men • a-side match is to be arranged with Greytown later. ■ A children's action concert';' arranged by Sir. and Sirs. Holdcroft, is t'o be held at South Featherston next month, in aid of the Methodist Circuit funds.