MASTERTON

New Zealand Mail, Issue 907, 19 July 1889, Page 11

MASTERTON

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) July 15. The District Court has been occupied with unimportant bankruptcy cases since Wednesday, and now it has further adjourned till Wednesday next, when, it is to be hoped, the remainder of the business may be disposed of without further adjournment. Next Wednesday will make four weeks since tlie session was started, though with proper arrangements the business could easily have been disposed of. There has been a spell of unusually cold and rainy weather, which has brought farming operations to a complete standstill. Ou Wednesday it blew hard from the north-west, and all the rivers ran high. On Thursday the wind shifted to the and heavy rain fell till Saturday night, all the rivers getting very high. On Friday snow fell almost throughout the Forty-mile Bush, and a traveller informed me that snow to the depth of Sin was lying on the upper portion of the Opaki .Plain. The weather is now fine.

The local firebells have been rung on the average about every forty-eight hours for some time past, and invariably for chimney fires. The consequence is that the members of the two fire brigades are beginning to pay little attention to the summons to turn out. Should a serious fire occur they would probably be slower in turning out than usual, and nobody could blame thein much. ■ The only/ cure, seems to be to inflict more than the usual nominal fine for the next foul chimney or two that has to be considered in Court. There are three chimney sweeps in the town, and their charges are moderate enough, so that these annoying alarms could be easily avoided.

The Te Ore Ore first fifteen journeyed to Carterton, despite wind an 1 weather, to play the Rival second for the junior football cup. The latter seem to have been of opinion that they stood a very good chance to'win. .The victory of the Maoris was, however, one of the most decisive I have heard of in the Colony, as they scored 24 points (4 goals and 12 tries) to love. The Masterton and Red Stars were to have played their second heat for the Senior Cup, but they wisely decided to postpone it.