WAIRARAPA NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 127, 25 November 1901, Page 5

WAIRARAPA NEWS.

• ■• [BY TELKGRAPH — OWN CORRESPONDENT.] GREYTOWN N., This Day. ' The South Wairarapa Mounted Rifles held a successful field day at Clareville on Saturday. After parade, sports were held, and there was good competition for events. Corporal Tilson's team won the best-equipped section and section jumping, Trooper Cadwallader won the rescue race, and Trooper King the led horses. At the invitation of Lieutenant Skeny, the corps was entertained •at dinner and a smoke concert. Another field day and picnic will be held by the corps at Belvedere on sth December, and later on Lieutenant Jury has invited the members of the corps, and also the native corps, to a sports gathering and banquet at KonataW. The Borough Council accepted the proposal of Mr. Toms, of Palmerston, to light Greytown by acetylene gas. MASTERTON, This Day. Settlers iji this district complain that holders of small grazing runs are fated for local government purposes at a nominal figure as compared with other people. The matter is likely to come before the ilocar branch of the Farmers' Union. •. The anniversary services in connection with the local Wesleyan Sunday School were conducted yesterday by the Rev. W. J. Elliott, of Wellington. A vagrant from Wellington, named Fred Lyness, was this morning sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour.