PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 749, 23 February 1910, Page 8

PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

IFrom Our Special Correspondents.! ' $ . MASTERTON. . ' The remanded' charge of incendiarism .against Uen'ond Wong Gee, heard befoer Messrs. >.W: H. Beetham and -T. .AVagg, J.P.'s, and which occupied all day yesterday in.hearing, resulted in the accused being committed for. trial. Bail was allowed and forthcoming, accused .£SO eachand one surety of ,£IOO. Tho-Tcsults of the bullock J and sheepweight guessing competitions in connection with the rewnt A. and P.. show are now. available. 'The correct weight of the bullock' was 7261b., Messrs; G. H. Innis, Tinui, .and W. E. Corlett, Masterton, guessing, the,correct 'Weight, and thus dividing' tile first and second prizes of .£5. and .£2 respectively. Mr. A. Kennedy, Lansdowne, -guessed' ffililb.,' Miss Lett, Tauefu,' 7621-lb.,' and Mr. j.'VG. Richards, 76211b. 'l'hese competitors will divide the third prize of ft Mrs. G; Sowinan guessed the correct ■ weight of the ■ sheep (1301b.), and will be awarded the £5- prize. Other very close guesses were those of Messrs. I{. C. P. Da'gg, Inuaraua,' J. M'Govern, . Pahiatiia, and W. V. Graham, Alfredton, all of .whom weight as 129i1b„ while, Mr. ~P? ur m S OYaihakeke) estimate ' was lilOjlb. The highest.' weight guessed for the bullock was 99851b:, and the lowest 3651b. -Sis hundred' tickets 'were-. sold for the sheep-guessing,- the ■'highest guess being 2081b., and the lowest 631b.

OTAKI. The following will'constitute the Horo-. whenua cricket . team who are .to play a team .of Wellington. teachers at ,the Were roa Training Farm •' on March 9Bums, Rout, ..: Eggleton,,7,Bennett, v ,Naughton, M'Meekan, .'Eobson,.. Bevan >: : De Mey, M'Bain, and Kingi. ... The following have been elected officers of the Otaki Temperance. Society:—Presi-, dent, Ifr. J. Andrew; -vice-iiresidente, Revs. Messrs. Jordan , and Temuera; Mr. Smith and. Mrs. .Webby; ion. .secretary,. pro tern'., Miss Johnson. . ■ V'.; FEUDING,; Preliminary : plans . .of/ .the . proposed Municipal Opera House for Feilding have arrived. They l have not' yet been ' considered by the Borough Council's Opera House I 'Committee.-To-day the Feilding school cadets, to 1 the. number of '-80, will leave' for tlio Kitchener camp in the vicinity of Wellington; "Major:. W. H. McLean' will'bo' in charge 'of 'the boys.? ';; 1 .-. ' A ' "very - successful concert', 1 was' held 1 in the Drill -Hall last-evening" 1 in aid of' the: uniform fund of the' hoy scouts. . Mr. C. W. -Palmer, secretary of the Wellington branch of the Navy League, on -hearing that- the Feilding schoolboys -were taking an interest. in : tho'Navy and tho ;League, . wrote :to the local secretary.- stating ho' would endeavour to arrange to take any Feilding school-boy members over' tlio i Encounter while they were: in ~Welliigtoh":at, the Kitchener' camp. , :

, LEVIN. '•.!$ Thesnew footpaths in Bath Street/are. to■ bo sown with , It: was mentioned! at the' levin Borough : Council inieeling' on Monday evening that a noxious - week (penny royal) was rather plentiful 1 in the boroughi Jnstructions.;;were,'given to- the road 'overseer to-destroy' any plants/of ; thor.variety named .that he might come-across;'.'- : t' I '!'"!.®®" ' team organised/'by , Mr. J.Robertson .to -. meet .the Levin -Rifle Clu J ?f Satur( *ay. in friendly rivalry will ■ probably be composed as follows:—Messrs. f; 'Prouse;!. C.'; Prouse, 'J;-;' Parsons, I. Hook,: C.V;Palmcr,, T. A'. Williams, J. C. ;Burns, - R.' Bnrgo, R. 'Pettitt;- F. E. Parker, and J. Robertson/ Tlio conditions: are, seven . rounds, at 200 and 500 >•$. '.and - tho match: is • to . start; at■A councillor complained at the Borough Council meeting on.Monday that,it-was reported-,that one -of tho excavatorsi ontho. waterworkers. ,was- being!paid a■ shilling a day extra.:for the-purpose'of speeding up, his. fellow.„work'crs. The Mayor, assured.: the troubled.'Councillor . that .there was no trifth.,iii ;fche "'story, SHANNON. : ' ' Tho ifanawatu; Riveivis-'lower/ than it ■ be f. u J this > season so - far;- and '• is'f nonvery, dimcult- ~of - navigation' above ' the Shannoa/'Bndge. ..i i t.-, -Mr.,,. Hyman. 'of -the . limes.. has been the'-guest of Mr. Moyni-' han for seyeral days,- and has' gone on to the Press Conference'.at Rotorua. - A meeting of the committee in connection with. the .bazaar, inlaid of Mother Mary Aubert s. Home: of. Compassion, -ivas -held on Monday'night, in the Club Hotel. ;ihe, members of the!committee are- MesKersey, May, s ' Rotter, Dill, O Connor,., Messrs.. J.: Martin, and. •i/., King. • The joint • secretaries are. Messrs..,?. O Connor'.and W. -Movhihan. lhe bazaar takes place-on March 17, and promises, to be successful in-every way