MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 843, 15 June 1910, Page 7

MASTERTON NOTES.

(By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Masterton, Juno 11. • Long and Co., butchers, were to-day adjudicated bankrupt on petition of Percy Bros., farmers. Mr. Pownall objected to the adjudication on tho grounds that no available act of bankruptcy had been committed and that the petition was not properly signed and attested or verified. Tho objection was over-ruled by tho registrar. Mr. Hogg, M.P., has written to the Prime Minister drawing 'attention to a resolution passed by tho Auckland and the Masterton A. and P. Associations in opposition to the proposal to introduco bßy immigration for farm work, and stating the conviction that the scheme submitted by tho Labour Department is uncalled for and unwise, and if carried out, will constitute a serious injustice to New Zealand parents and their families. The oporetta "Egyptian Princess" is shortly to bo staged here in aid of tho building fund of St. Matthew's Church. Strenuous effort is being made to raiso funds sufficient to erect a new Anglican Church in Masterton. A largo whale was cast up on tho beach nt Mr. O. Riddiford's Orui Estate on the East Coast on Saturday night. It is said t> have measured sixty feet in length. 'The Wairarapa Caledonian Society is making extensive preparations for nn "InglesUle' to be held here oii June 23. The Masterton Chamber of Commerce Council will meet in tho A. and P. Society's offices on Friday afternoon, next. The council has been doing excellent work during (ho last few years in keeping tho commercial 'requirements of tho town and district before the authorities. In all probability the railway question will again engage its.attention on Friday, as other 'chambers aro seeking a conference on the subject. Tho local chamber might also, with advantage, discuss tho desirublencss of initiating an "industries week" in tho town. The capacity of tho district for producing wool, flax, honey, iW-ines, frozen meats, cereals, lime, bricks, pottery, minerals, fruit, etc., cannot be too widely advertised, and a local exhibition, simitar to that hold a few years back, would do much to advertise and popularise tho district. • It is to be hoped that the improvements to the northern approach to Masterton will be proceeded with as expeditiously as possible. At present the two apologies for bridges and the dangerous roads oyer which hundreds of people have daily to pass in coming to the town aro a menace to tho wholo community. So far as tho borough is concerned, it seems rather unfortunate that it should have to join with another local body in prosecuting such a work. Someday, when the people of Lansdow.iie aro in the pro-, per mood, wo may have a "Greater Masterton." A good deal of local interest is centred iu tho ChristcJiurch egg-laying competitions. Mr. Ankotell's entry from Masterton is occupying a good position? in tho competition. St. Matthew's Harriors had a run last night, the course covering about three miles. An explosion of acotyleno gas at a limelight entertainment in the Methodist Schoolroom last evening caused a vigorous alarm to be sounded on tho local firebell. Tho operator was burned about tho hands and face, but the fire was- extinguished before the fire brigade arrived. The Masterton Parliamentary Union resumed its session last evening, when a rigorous debate took place on the "Land ' Bill." This will bo continued, on next Monday evening, when the Bill will probably reach its committee stages. At a meeting of the Masterton branch of the Navy League last evening, at which Mr. H. G. Williams presided, a quantity of routine business was transacted, and it was decided to open branches of the leagno in connection with the various schools in the Wairarapa. Tho capitulation of the shearers, in so far as it was announced by Mr. Larncy, of the Federated Shearers' Union, i.e., by the acceptance of engagements where .£1 per 100 was offered, irrespective of shed hands, came as a surprise to many in the district. It was emphatically stated, at the sitting of tho Conciliation Council in- Masterton, and subsequently, that unless the shearers secured an award for shed hands, they would refuse to shear. This now appears to have been an unauthorised statement. As tho price now, ruling in this district is XI per 100, it is improbable that a difficulty will be experienced in procuring shearers.