MASTERTON.
t From Our Own. Correspondent. , Mastubto*?, August G. I Mr- L. 'F. Ayson, tho. Aoclimatisation Society’s- energetic onrator,has. succeeded in ; collecting about a, million and a half ova this season. This is the record for the Wellington Society, and probably .for the Colony. The work of distribution is now going on; Consignments : are being sent to Hawke's Bay > and Graymouth tomorrow-.. ’ .; An empty four-roomed house in Chapel street,’ pwned, by' Mrs S. Hounslow, totally destroyed by firo on Sunday morning. Incendiarism' is suspected. The building was insured for .£l5O in the National offipe. > : ;Two Wellington bicyclists—? Messrs Smith , and McOallum—rode through from Potone to Mastortdn ■ on*. * Sunday -on .. a tandem bicycle,' They loft Petono at 5 o'clock in tho morning, reaching Masterton at 1 p.m/ They loft again on. the return journey at 2 o’clock. 'The; tandem, .was, the,first, j,over saen in Masterton,. and- attracted-a good deal-of attention. ' • r
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2581, 6 August 1895, Page 4
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