PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 806, 2 May 1910, Page 9

PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

{From Our Bpccial Correspondents.) ■ 4 .— FEILDING. The Rev. G. G. Culo, recently from Wales, who lias succeeded Pastor Swinerd yi chargo of the Baptist Church, was given a hearty welcome at a public gathering last Monday evening.

Tiie Feilding Friendly Societies' card tournament will begin with the Oddfellows meeting the Foresters.

. Mr. 11. 'Woolvou, tho proprietor of tho Waituna Store, which was destroyed* by fire ou Friday morning, states that tho loose money in tho post oflico, with a portion of the mail matter was saved by himself.from tho fire, and tho balance, locked up in tho safe, was found intact when tho safe was opened. Tho store safe, ill which Mr. Woolven's books wero kept, also prevented tho contents from being affected by the fire. I'he insurances (£IBOO on the stock and fSOO on tho building) were in the South' British office. Mr. Woolven's loss will ho at least £1000. ' .

Tho May issue of tlio New Zealand railway time-table,. which lias been looked for anxiously hero, is to hand. Feilding at last appears in it as a stopping-place for tho Main Trunk and all other trains.

At the Kaheke School a farewell "social" was given to Mr. Purnell and family, prior to their taking up their residence in Apiti. This family was one of the first to settle on tho Norsowood Road some eighteen years ago. Tho Wanganui Education Board has decided that letters bo sent 'to the school committees at Eltham, Jlanaia Hawera, ..Patea, \Yavorley, Waugiuiui Taihapo, Ohakune, Raetihi, . Feilding! Palmerston North, Foxton, and Bulls asking them. if they can appoint a truant officer td undertake presecutions, the payment to bo. the fines recovered in each case.-

CARTERTON. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lmdop, of this town, ivill hear with deep 1-ogret of the death of their granddaughter, Noelino Lindop, which' occurred ill tlio Wellington Hospital on Thursday morning. Deceased was a bright active little girl of eleven summers, and had been ailing for several weeks with tui internal complaint, and a week or so ago entered tho WellingHospital for treatment. Sho was a general, favourite, and her demiso has como as a shook to lier friends. The interment took placc on Friday. Tho casket boro a floral tribute of sympathy from St. Mark's Sunday School, of which deceased Was a scholar. A competition for a trophy presented by Mr. W. C. Buchanan, M.P., was held under the auspices of tho Carterton Gun Club on Thursday afternoon. Thero was a good muster of competitors, four of whom tied for first placo in a tWenty-ono bird . match. In tho filial Mr. Hi Hqdge secured tho trophy, and Mr. R. Ivoid took socorul priae. Tho Mnstcrton Homing Pigeon Club havo offered a special prize of half a guinea to the South Wnirarapa Poultry, Pigeon, and Cage Bird Association, which is to be allotted tho best working homer in tho show.