MASTERTON.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1260, 23 April 1896, Page 19

MASTERTON.

Judgment has been given for plaintiff' in the ease in which George Pain claimed from William Wratten «£b>3 on a dishonoured promissory note, which \Y ratten alleged he had paid. A Phrenological Association has been formed hero, it has already a fair membership. Mr C. R. Caverhill, rabbit agent in South Wairarapa, has resigned his appointment in order to take up a position on Alciteo Station. Excellent entries have been received by the Wairarapa Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club for their next meeting. The balance-sheet of tho Mastcrton School Committee shows a credit balanco of £!■ odd for the year. At an early hour on the 15th a fire was discovered in the bakery shop of Messrs Chamberlain Bros., in Queen street. An alarm was soutulud on the (irebells, and the Brigade were quickly on the scene. Tim fire was extinguished with smim difficulty. The damage done to the building, which is insured for .£st> ( ) in the South British office, is estimated at AI'JU. The lire is supposed to have been caused by a defective chimney. The petition praying for the removal of Mr T. Hutchison, S.M., is being largely signed by influential settlers ot the district. t . A steady rise in the price of stock in this district is noticeable. This is attributed in a largo measure to tho abundance of grass which lias latterly come oil. Mr F. Weiss, the billiard-player, is again in this district. He played a game with Mr W. Fox last night, conceding him TO) in IOW and beating him. A ball was held at Gladstone last week ill aid of the lirminurton Relief Fund, and was most successful.

Lieutenant Joseph Prentice has been recommended to the Mastertou 1! iron Hi Council as a successor to Captain D. Pickering as captain of the Municipal Fire Brigade. A woman, not far from here, who mysteriously disappeared from her home 30 years ago, has just returned without a word of nolico. Her story is quite a romantic one.

A man named Samuel Bartlett was returning from the tiro on Monday morning when he slipped on a pavement and received a fracture of tho leg. _ A public meeting was held in tho Drill Hall on Monday to discuss tho proposal of tho Trust Lands Trustees to raise a loan for tho purpose of erecting a 1 own Jlall. Addresses in support of tho proposal were given by Messrs A. W Ilogg, M.H.E., C. A. Pownall and A. Vile. The poll on tho proposal is to be taken on Monday On Tuesday morning a window of the Occidental Hotel was broken, and an entrance effected to tho bar. Tho cash till was broached and the sum of £7 10s removed. A Magisterial enquiry into tho cause of tho recent fire will probably bo held in tho course of a day or two. A man named Andrew Wlntsitt was jvorking in a gravel pit at Parkville, near

Eketalmna, on Monday morning, when a j fall of earth occurred, half burying him. | When the poor fellow was extricated it I was found that he had received a fracture | of the leg and internal injuries. He was conveyed to the Masterton Hospital by the afternoon train, but succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday morning. An inquest was held on Tuesday afternoon, when a verdict of accidental death was returned.