PROVINCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1649, 7 October 1903, Page 30

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

MASTERTON.

(From Our Own Correspondent). Monday. Captain Remini, of the Wairarana (Native) Mounted Rifles, has decided to abandon volunteering, and has tendered his resignation to the Department. Cricketing bids fair to be an important pastime this season. Four clubs are in existence in Masterton, and six or seven teams will be put in the field. A local union is to be formed to control the r>-ame. Walking matches are shortly to be inaugurated here, and teams are already being arranged. The route will probably b 3 from Masterton to Carterton. The milk delivery to the Masterton Dairy Factory is not very large at tne present t*»ne, due to the fact that cows are late in coming in to milk. The creamery being erected at Mangamaire by the Masterton Company will probably be completed in a week’s time, and the produce from five hundred cows is expected to be received from that district. The annual meeting of the Permanent and Investment Building Society was held to-night. The report and balance-sheet were of a satisfactory character. Loans amounting to .£33,520, deposits <£16,753, advances £9751, gross profits £2093, prcentage of profits 7.17. Shores matured during the year to the value of £3500, but the amount was replaced by £4OOO worth of fully paid-up £lO shares placed iu Wellington. Messrs Payton and Mac-' Ara were re-elected directors. Mr Keith,, the manager, was granted a bonus ot £25. PAHIATUA. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent). Monday. At a meeting of the Mangatainolca branch of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday it was decided to invite Mr Lit M-H.R., to attend the meeting on the 17th to be addressed by Messrs Taylor, Bedford and Laurenson on the land question. Messrs* Manson, Quinlan and Barren were appointed to provide for the entertainment of the visitors. A discussion took place® in reference .to the Slaughtering Act. and it was deemed to point out to the Minister of Agricultuie tliG unfairness -under which, the in spection of meat for sale for consumption is at present carried on outside the thieemile boundary. . At the County Council meeting on Saturday the action of the Chief Engineer of Roads in suggesting that the Council should bear half the cost and the Government half the cost of maintenance of the N gawapurua railway and roan traffic bridge was adversely oritisecl. it was resolved that the chairman, Mi Bolton and Councillors McCarthy ai.d Barrel 1 prepare a report on the subject, and if necessary approach the Minister for Public Works through tne member for the district. PALMERSTON NORTH. (By Our Special Reporter.) v J Monday. A house at A.shlrurst, owned bj Mi P* Hanlon and occupied by Mrs Poad, was yesterday found to be on fire.. i h,e out break was confined to. a window sill which was afterwards discovered to. be saturated with kerosene. Incendiarism is suspected.

It is a common saying in Warsaw, according to Mr Murray (tho British Consul-General), that “ the British are the host manufacturers but the uor^t merchants in the world. A dcbiie to do business with the United Kingdom is very general in Poland, but it is the attitude of the British trader that deters the local buyer. Mr Murray gives the following instance of the wiay m which business is thrust away by the British merchant: —“ A firm here sent a small order for yarn, enclosing a, cheque for the whole amount-soine-thiii'r like £50 —advising that, in all probability, further extensive business w »3 likely to follow. The British firm returned the cheque, saying the order was t,oo small for them to look at.” After this it is not surprising to find Mr Murray in another part of his report figuratively going down on his knees to British travellers, begging them to call at his office for information —a request that would have been thought to be the least necessary of all. There were only two bankruptcies m Wellington during the month of September. but during that period ten inquests were held.