HUTT VALLEY NOTES

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4297, 5 March 1901, Page 2

HUTT VALLEY NOTES

(From Our Own Correspondent•) The funeral of the lal« Charhrp.nglaiicl took place on Sunday. tlio interment being ma.do nt Lower Hutt. A short memorial service, conducted by the Rev ,T. H. Bussell. was bold at St. Augustine's Chwrcli, Pctnne. _ The Bcv J. .Tones officiated at the burial place. The Petone Fire Brigade representatives who took part, in the recent, competitions at Christchurch returned home on Sunday. They ba re brought no fresh laurels to tho district. bnt it i-s unquestionable that the bngadesinou bate profited to a. very large extent by the intercourse these kind of meetings afford. Conversing with one of them, I was assured that they were exceedingly well treated by „thc Christchurch! pconle, wbo are famed throughout the colony for their hospitality. On Friday evening last Messrs W. H. Bailey and C. Wright, who have been for several years connected with Mr X. Price’s sawmills, were banqueted hv the members of the building; trade at'the Grand National Hotel, Petcne. Mr G. London pres.iaod. Ho proposed the only of the evening, and referred to the many excellent dualities of the .guests, stating that he felt sure the less to Petcne was a gain to Ormoudville, which would be, Messrs Bailey and Wright’s new field of labour. Air London then handed to Mr Bailey a silvermounted pipe and to Air Wright a sil-ver-mounted walking-stick. Both recipients suitably responded. Air Oldham, connected with the Gear Company’s Petouo works some years ago, wbo has been for many years manager of tho Western Packing Company at Pa tea, and was associated with dairying and 1 agricultural interests throughout the North Island, has. Ills local friends have learned, purchased the Woodlands Meat Company’s business iu Southland. X'he Hutt A r alley cricket matches woro proceeded with on Saturday, when St. Augustine’s and Koro Koro comnetcd for the senior championship, and tlio Petone United and Koro Koro B for the junior contest. In the former match the church club, somewhat -unexpectedly,. defeated its opponents by an innings and 41 runs. Koro Koro going in first made 80 (Hewat 11, Busbill 71. St. Augustine’s replying with 0G 1 (C. Berntsen 17, A. tsborwood 28, F. Mann 10). In its second essay,_ Koro Koro only scored SH. For the winners, Mann Bros, and P her wood gained the bowling honours, and for the losers, Puketapu, Hewat and Braid were the most successful. In the junior match, Petone won by 99 runs. For the senior championship,Waiwetu and Petone United having each lost a match, now tie, and the heat to bo played between them will probably decide the winner of the championship.