MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1356, 6 February 1912, Page 2

MASTERTON NOTES.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) Mastcrton, February 5. Wairarana breeders were disappointed with the iirices offered for their stud mul llo'jk rams at the llav/ke's Bay ram lair last week. 'J'he poor dvinand is said to have been due in u measure to the dry season which lias, been experienced. on the East Coast. tfxccfc.iive heat has been experienced in this district during the last week or two. To-day the thermometer read well over 80 degrees in tho shade. Tho country is already lookin;; parched and dry, and the smoke liangiiijj over tho town indicates that bush and log iires arc in progress in the outlying districts. operations are , now almost completed, and harvesting is well advanced. Tho oat crop is patchy in parts, but some excellent individual returns arc recorded. Mr. .1. C. M'Killop, of Te Ore Ore, cut a crop of "Abundance" oats which yielded, illi biuhels to the acre, and two tons of pressed straw. About 15(10 acres of bush arc to bo burned in the Alfredton district this season.

.Mr. H. X. barton's "Clifton Goito" property has been sold to Mr. C. Bcrmett, of Hawke's Way.

There are at present 130 men engaged at the Wainguwa freezing works. The dry iveathor is causing a rush of fat stock. Last week nearly 10,000 sheep and 70 head of cattle were dispatched to tho works.

A party of Mastertoa peoplo who made tho ascent of Mount Holdsworth yesteritny, report that tho track is in excellent order. From the summit, Mount Egmont could be clearly discerned in the distance. A sacred concert was held Isfit evening in the Town Hall, in aid of a local resident whoso health is impaired. A sum of inO 7s. was taken.

- A combined "Yankee" tournament was pluyp'l on the llasterton lawn tennis 'courts',on Saturday.. The tournament resulted in T. H. Header and Miss Robieson winning, with twelvo ganies to their credit.