PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1078, 17 March 1911, Page 2

PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

(From Our Special Correspondents.) t • FEATHERSTON. Through a brake capsizing at Kaiwaiwai, two 'men were thrown out, one of them, J. Doohan, sustaining a compound fracture of the log. The other, D. Alexander, was only snakcu. Mr. J. T. 11. llornsby addressed a moderate audience at the Town Hall on Wednesday night. The speech was similar to previous ones. He was accorded a vote of thanks. A certain amount of pilfering has been going on at the local railway station recently, and the police are bringing some cases before the. next Magistrate's Court. Sheep arc still being sent away from hero in large quantities, 10,050 being the total dispatched last week. The weather is now very dry and warm, although the pastures have not suffered so severely as in other parts. Mrs. J. Card and her two daughters arrived in Feathorston last night lrom their trip to Britain.

FEILDING. A junior team from the Oroua Club played a return match with Bunnythorpe on the latter's courts, and the latter had their revenge, winning by eight 6ets to four, or 55 games to 42. On Sunday next the Rev. John White will preach at Kangiawahia and Maugarimu, and on Monday at Ruahine, this being his last visit before leaving for his new circuit (Patea). Mr. White has completed six years' service in the Kimbolton circuit which may be said to be one of "magnificent distances." The names of Messrs. J. G. Cobbe and 11. Tdllcy are to be submitted to the local bodies interested as candwates for the Wellington Harbour Board election for the purpose of saving a contest by the coupling of one of them with Mr. M. Cohen, of Palmerston, to represent this coast on the board. At the floral' fete, held at Wanganui, Miss Kathleen Cobbe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Cobbe, of Fcildmg, purchased the winning ticket iu a competition which entitles her to a trip to Rotorun. Hiss Cobbe is a student at the Wanganui Girls' College. Taonui and Colyton Schools are having an excursion to Wanganui and Castlecliff to-day.