HASTINGS NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 578, 5 August 1909, Page 6

HASTINGS NOTES.

(By Toleeraph-Special Correspondent! '• ' •' Hastings, August 4, The Hawke's Bay ploughing match was , held to-day at Louglands in tine weather, and a large • attendance was, present. Tho following are tho results:—Class A(doubiefurrow ploughs; first prize, £10; second, £710s.; third, £5; fourth, £2 10s.; fifth, 1 £1' 10s.; sixth, £1; seventh, £1): Kendall, 1 and champion; Scbwass, 2; .Ramsay, 3; - M'Nab, 4; Mitchell, 5; Ulph/6; Tiwi, 7..' Best ins and outs, and first off the field:' Kendall, best-strike; ' best finish, . Ulpli. ,-, Class B (prizes, £6 and: £4, double furrows,, for youths under.2o): Karauria, .1; Funnury,, 2. Best strike and best finish: Farmery, 1. Class C (prizes, £3, £2, and £1; threofurrqw ploughs): J. Dean, 1; Taha. 2./ Specials: Bost ploughing on field, Kendall; ploughman with largest family, ltamsay;oldest ploughman' on ground, Dean;, bestkept harness, E. J. Watt 1, W. Campbell 2; best matched team, Douglas Brothers. Entire parade (prizes, £10, £5, and £3): J.; Miller's Dominion, 1; J. C. Haldanc's Lord of Clive, 2; J. Evans's Clan Macgregor, 3. Specials: Best team and best turn-out team, „ E.'-J. Watt 1, Douglas Brothers 2; best gelding in team, and ploughman with best' got-up team, E. J. Watt 1, 2, and 3; bestiitly or mare in team, E. J. Watt 1, Douglas Brothors 2. The dinner held .to-night.. at tho drill hall, under tho auspices of the! Farmers' Union, in connection, with the ploughing match, was a great success. .' : A meeting of. subscribers to the Town. Clock Fund was held last, night, tho Mayor • presiding. Correspondence was read from the Minister for Public Works, stating that, tenders would be called for erecting tho; clock as soon as tho money subscribed had"', been handed in. A letter read from Little- ' iolui and Son stated the cost of clock and boll to ho £500. r J?ie chimes would' £200. Tho Mayor explained that tho committer had collected £200 in cash, and £100 had been promised. . The committee had anticipated importing a clock and chimes,- ■ duty-free, for £600, but now found that'the clock purchased here .would cost £500, and the chimes £200, It. was ,for the meeting to decide whether the money bo handed over at once to tho Government for the purchase of tho clock, and tho hour bell and chimes be erected lator on, or whether the ■ work of collecting should' proceed. Aftci discussion, it was resolved to ask the Gov-'' eminent whether, if tho committee hand over £300 (which, with subsidy,' ' makes : up £600), .will tho Government erect' tho clock ai;d hour bell for £500, and 'keep tho .: balance until the committee collect a'sufI ficient sUm for a set of chimes. ' ': I A meeting' of ratepayers was' held last ' night to consider severance of s five areas : from tho borough boundaries. "Mr. Millor (Mayor) presided. After discussing • tho ' matter, Mr. Taylor moved, and Mr. E. Bronton seconded: "That this meeting urge the Government to- set up a commission to in- ; quire into the matter of severance."' This was carried. To-morrow at 1 p.m., at tho Fruit Exchanjjo, • Blair and Allen Streets, Messrs. Thompson Bros.', Ltd., will sell in lots, to Suit buyers, three thousand trees,; plants, native shrubs, ' etc., on behalf of the Morshead Nursery Co., of New Plymouth. , . .. Messrs. A. L. Wilson" and Company report tho sale of a leasehold property, situated in ' • Church Street, to Mr. W. L. Thompson, at .£290. The property was-,sold.at auction in their rooms, 2G.Braudon Street, under instructions from ' tho Registrar of. tho Supremo Court. ;. Messrs. W. H. Morrah and Co., advertise, in • this issue, a list of properties, for-sale. An encumbered fattening farm is open ford sale or'exchango at Shortt's,.Ltd. Frutella is'the latest table ' delicacy, and k obtoihablo in all fruit .flavours. An important solo (by order,of, the Offioial Assignee) of horses and vehicles, used in the % livery stable business of Mrs. E. Ritsoh, will.'■; "- bo held by Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Co., on Tuesday, August' 17, at 11 a,in,' PHOSPHOL EMULSION' tones' up' the sy* tem. Makes it pi-oof against cold and'atten- ' dant ills, and is better than beef as ■ a body builder. 4 ' ,