PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 760, 8 March 1910, Page 6

PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

(From Our Special Correspondents.) ~4— " '• FEILDING. ... The .first meeting of creditors' in the bankrupt- estate, of .W. H. Morrow, carrier, .of . Feilding, w;as held last week; Bankrupt supplied a sworn statement, in which he said' that in April, 1909, be was a hotelkecper, and was induced by Victor, Smith., and J. Jacobsen, ; whi) was anxious to get -into : a hotel, to exchange the lease of the hotel, for .the carrying- and advertising business' of'J. Jacobsen, together with the whole of the' plant and freehold property situate.in Bowen Street, Feilding. . The., business consisted of town ana country carrying, together, with the bill posting, advertising,, six horses, one lorry, two brakes, harness, etc., all theatrical hoardings, and employing two men. The; business was supposed to have a turnover of not less than ,£7l per month. The price was =£1500, .£750 of which was to remain for five years at GJ per ' cent., mortgaged to, Mrs. Annie Jacobsen. '. He fojuid the business anything- but satisfactory, everything was in bad order, the turnover was only half what .it was. supposed .to be, ana there was not ;more than enough .for ; fe-o vehicles, on :an average. As there were not sufficient creditors present to pass' a resolution, the meeting was. adjourned. . Miss Coornbe, of the" Feilding District High School, is to be promoted to the vacancy at the Terrace End School, Palmerston North.

It has been suggested here that the Government should appoint Mr. Ernest Short, who is taking some valuable stud Romney sheep at great expense to compete at the Argentine Show, as New Zealand's Commissioner at the Argentine Centenary Exposition.

The Minister, for Railways arrived here from Wellington yesterday afternoon ;.by. the Main Trunk' train, which was nearly: an hour and a half-late owing to trouble at Otaki. A large party of business men met .Mr. . Millar at. the station,-, and then the party was driven to Sir.-John-Cobbe's. residence, where'they were entertained'at tea under the'trees by Mrs. Cobbe. Thence they drove by .motor-car to the Feilding' bowling green,. where, play was indulged in .until dark. . ■ Messrs.-Guthrie,' M.P., Moore and Millar (skip)' played , .half-a-, dozen heads ajainst Messrs. F. Pirani, Lockhead, and Stewart (skip), the result being a win for the Minister by 8 to' 7. The, -weather is proi* ising for" to-day's motor-car drive- into ,'tne out districts. otaki. The • monthly meeting of the Otaki Road Board was- held on Saturday afternoon... • Present :VWardens Eolls (chairman), .Tompsitt, D'Ath, Jones, .and Freeman. , Leave/of ■ absence . was .granted Wardens Judq and- Meads, and' a motion of condolence passed, to'.the former in connection with, his recent "bereavement. It was decided to take the -ranger off all district roads after March 9, and to have necessary repairs ,done to the approach of the public , pound, ' the Hordwhenrfa County Council to. be asked to shard the expense. It was reported that P. Den-, ton; was proceeding; with, the., N.: Manakau oohtraot, • and it r was - proposed to extend the work so as to comply with the wishes of ' Mr.VMathieson.: It-was reported- that bridges at Eangiuru and Waitohu were dangerous, and the roadman was instructed to attend , to them. It wa9 deoided that a renort be. secured on.'.Atkinson's -Bridgeat- Eangiuru, it being considered ; unsafe from traffic rang-, ing -oyer half a l ton; : . The : matter of; fascining .the beach"' road was' considered, but nothing, definite was arranged.' Ward6n: Jones explained , that owing to MrV Judd's bereavement: the -report. on. securing 'asphalt, for 'the.\Otaki footpaths had been deferred,' but would' be ready by the.date of next meeting.

• SHANNON. .To . the meet casual observer,, it. is evi-.-dept : that ; the Shannon railway station staff -is underaianned. . When the Manawatu Company had the line there was" a but since the.Government -railway the.staff .has been,, reduced ; to two, stationmaster and.porter, thiSr",in^'^l^'of.'^Ke 1 ",fpct that the wort; has practically ,36ubled. There are at least.'half a dozen extra trains a day, and there has been"- a considerable increase in the local goods traffic.' The general opinion'seems to be that the flood in the Otaura stream on February 26 was caused by a cloud bursting on-the ranges. The flood .was apparently confined to this creek, and is said to have. been the, biggest for forty years.; The water came' down in, a solid wall, • carrying bridges away, and' bringing down thousands of feet; of .timber. 1 The local, timber : company . ; have had a gang of twenty men repairing damage ■to their in the.Tokomaiu Valley. . On the other side of the' watershed.-very great dajnage was done' to fences. ' One whare thirty feet above the river-bed was flooded.. Great scars can be seen near the summits of the ranges amongst,the, green, bush,' ■ testifying 'to ; the-, violence of the, downpour. '■ ' .. \ ~ , The Shannon Rifle Club intend holding a' "social" shortly, • when '.the donor of, the Field Shield-, recently won by the local club at Palmerston,. will 'present the. trophy.' "' . CARTERTON. . Large congregations attended St." Mark's Church on Sunday "morning and, evening. The forerunner of the forthcoming, general' .mission,' who was announced to. preach in the evening, was:. unable 'to keep the .engagement, on account, of an urgent call to Wellington on Saturday afternoon. The ftev. H. Watson, .of - St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, however, came down and assisted with the service, his sermon bearing reference to the mis-, sion. . ■ ' It is likely that the South Wairarapa Poultry,-Pigeon, and Cage Bird Association .will select the.-third week in July as the dates for. their next show.. The. committee' of the recently-formed Wairarapa 'Egg Circle meet on Wednesday evening' nest, at Masterton. .' The objects! of the circle is to. secure co-opera-tiou in. the marketing of eggs and ' purchasing'of fowl. food. " .. Messrs. .Campih and Hamer were the successful tenderers ior repainting the Rechabite Hall. The Mount 'Holdsworth Track Committee purpose, spending, the .£SO allocated by the Tourist Department in adding a room,' 18ft. by . 9ft., to . the mountainhouse at each end; and a verandah ift. wide to the front The committee-also has under consideration the question of connecting the!mountain.track with that from Otaki, as' proposed by Mr. yield, and also with the Greytown route. Not-only has rust made its appearance in.some, of the,crops in this district thit< season, but it is also affecting the grass to some extent.! Some attribute, to this cause the difficulty that is being experienced in getting fat stock' ready for the market. . ■ Miss Morton, who for a considerable time acted as relieving teacher at the local high school, has been, appointed a permanent teacher, and will .take the place of Miss Scott; who is resigning next month. . ' -

The threshing .returns of many crops in this district have proved very disappointing, the yields being a good deal below expectations. The cause, is the ravages of the ..caterpillar and rust. Bro. E. K. Taylor, of has been inspecting the Rechabite lodges between Wellington and Gisborne, passed through here on Monday' afternoon on the return journey; He. states that the order is. making good progress up north. Ths master saddlers of the Wairarapa ore to meet, shortly to consider the new award, and to appoint assessors.to act at the forthcoming conference at Wellington. .. , ' Tho police have\ arrested three young tnen of eighteen years of age in "the hamlot of Bayard : Lethou, France, who drugged and strangled a widow named Caillaud, a doorkeeper, in the Rue (Jrchampt. : \ For Influenza take Woods' Great Puppormint Cure. Never Fails, la. 6d, Gd.—Advt. Tho fiscal reprisals which are threatened by Germany, Belgium, and Italy on account of the proposed new French tariff are . causing increasing concern iu i'ran.ce. The Senate will shortly be called upon to revise the proposed new tariff, and the. "Temps" expresses' tho conviction that that body will be, careful not to sacrifice any. of tie. great' national interests with whose defence it is en-