PROVINCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4310, 20 March 1901, Page 3

PROVINCIAL NEWS

JIGNTERVIBLE. It has been decided to hold a Caledonim,i sports meeting in Hnnterville on 1 New Year’s Day of each year, and to |,‘,ive all support"possible to other sports iCcM there. The following names wers j ialien down in forming a committee;-- | ij f "., rs R. C. Brncc, A. Chisholm, T. I Chisholm, A. Ross, F. Haseldcn, .1. hVr .in L. McLachlan. D. McLachlan, ! Vl.m. Simpson, I" Togncr, F. -Meads and |J. Bull. [ FELL DING. I A public meeting at jumnylhorpe do--1 aided that it was desirable to lorm a p.H.ilic library in the township. • ; At n spor-inl mrc-ting of Uio Foiklmg Biinni'.vh Council a committee of fift m;i eit Kens was aiijioiuted to act in I'onjuiicl ion with the ( oniicii in prop. ii'id.-ig a water and drainage sc-,heme fo’r vim honngh. WANGANUI. Ti'" Wanganui Edncationnl Insiitutc is a- testimonial io Inspector Bind;).., which will fake the form of a pin-, e o: sever.^'igns. Subscriptions may h ■ sent to the president. Mr James Aitkon. Wanganui It is believed that many rer,oners and old scholars in the ed.u 'ationai district will gladly take this opportunity of contributing to the testimonial to one who was so prominently connected with educational matters, ;i,r over sixteen years, and whose constant hard work resulted in a breakdown, at an early age. HA MU A. Constable Bowden on Friday evening arrested a Maori youth aged about nineteen, on a. charge of alleged assault on a. settlor’s wife at Hamua. It i.s alleged the young fellow went into the house and pulled the woman about. When .die screamed he ran away. Ho was brought before the local Bench on Saturday and remanded. WAIRARAPA.

The Rev Robert Wood, left■ Master!on on Monday for Dunedin, on account of Hie illness of Mrs Wood, who has been on a visit to that city. It would (says the, “Wairarapa Standard”) have been a. graceful thing, and would have cost Mr Ward nothing, if, when he spoke at Eketahnnn on Saturday> he had referred to the repeated efforts made by Mr Buchanan to get the Rimutaka railway impost removed. He did not do so, however, but it is a. fact that Mr Buchanan year after year and time after time agitated for the removal of this railway grievance, and brought the matter repeatedly under the notice of Parliament. At the meeting of the Wairarapa South County Council on Saturday, Councillor Buchanan mentioned the proposal of the Lower Hutt Borough Council, to erect a bridge over the Hutt River and allotting the. cost of same amongst the adjacent boroughs and counties. The Wairarapa South County was included in the allotment for a forty-eighth part of the total cost, which was estimated at £15,000. The Council’s proportion, therefore, roughly, would bo some £3OO. The proposal to make the -Wairarapa South County contribute to the cost of the erection of this bridge was, he| said, the latest instance of wild legislation they had had recently; The settlers in the back blocks were cut off from markets for the want of roads and bridges,; which the Council had not funds to construct, and if it was fair to put a portion of, the. cost of the Hutt bridge on the’ country districts, then the big cities should contribute to the cost of the main roads. He moved that the Council outer an emphatic protest against the proposal. The motion was carried.