PROVINCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4331, 15 April 1901, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

PALMERSTON NORTH. MANAWATU A- AND P. ASSOCIATION. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) Saturday, 7 n.ra.

Tho Agricultural Association met today. A joint report was read from Weddel aud-Co.- and H. Rawson, Fitter and Sons, London, furnished by the National Mortgage and Agency Company -and the Lougbuni Freezing Works, relative to the prizes competed for by fat bullocks exhibited at last show and subsequently shipped to Loudon and adjudged at Smithiield fer further prizes. First •and second prizes wore awarded to Mr James Stuckey’s exhibit of Hereford?. The report says of one pen ; ‘‘Better beef ■or the Loudon trade would not be possible to find.- 'lt is in fact perfect in every wajv v ’. . ' ' The vice-presidents elected were Messrs Dalrylnple, ff. .N. Lane, D. P. Buchanan and A. E. Russell. The balance-sheet to 31st March, 1901, was presented. The profit and loss account showed the total receipts to be £3IBO 18s, including £240 from life members, and the expenditure £2407 6s' 9d. Tho carried forward balance is £983 11s 3d- Tiro balance-sheet showed the assets to be £7897 7s 8d and the liabilities £ll3l ,15s 6d, the difference being tho total surplus assets. The balancesheet- adopted-,-and .is to be laid before the general meeting on the 27tb in-st. _ The Biib-committco has made progress in tho matter of fanners’ experiments, and several have intimated their willingness to undertake experiments under the scheme now being devised. A resolution was ’carried to urge the necessity of a technical college for agriculture and dairying, in,the, North Island in the vicinity of Palmerston North. , Notice of motion was given that the association should endeavour to arrange with other bodies a fixed time for the systematic poisoning of small birds, the association to supply poison at cost price.

! WANGANUI. THE MAYORAL CONTEST. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) Sunday, 5.10 p.m. Mr A. Hatrick, the present Mayor, was nominated yesterday for another term. His opponent, Mr W. G. Bassett, will probably be nominated to-morrow. A good deal ■of interest is being manifested in the election, and upwards ot 700, names have been added to the roll by the rival parties. I hear Mr Hatrick s party intends to run a Council “ticket ’ in connection with the Mayoralty contest, and tha names mentioned include Messrs Hope, Gibbons, George Spriggens, A. Bignell, Gifford and Marshall. The well-known Maori chief Topia Turoa has received an imitation to attend the celebrations in connection with the opening’’of the Federal Parliament, but has had to decline, owing to the feeble state of bis health. A first offender for drunkenness admitted to the Court yesterday that on his way to town from Mangamalm ho stayed at a hotel, where he ‘ got through” from three to five pounds. He said he did not know how ho got to bod that night, but next day ho came into Wanganui, and did nob come to ins senses properly until ho awoke out of a sleep and found himself in the lockup. The Magistrate ordered the police to make' inquiries. Messrs Hatrick and Co.’s new steam launch, built in Auckland for extending the mail service to Tangarakarau, is expected this week. The firm say she will seat sixty passengers, and that her draught and speed will be all that is required. . A District Court, sittings will commence to-morrow, but only civil business will b© taken, the criminal being adjourned till the 24th - inst. There are twenty-three Justices ot the Peace in Wanganui.

MASTERTON. BEQUEST FOR STUD HORSES. {By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) Saturday, 5.5 p.m. At a meeting of the committee of the Masterbon Agricultural and Pastoral Association yesterday, several new members were elected. A proposal was made to enlarge the committee by including representation of the outlying districts*. Consideration of the matter wa.s deferred.

■ It was resolved to apply to the Government to have one of the recentlyappointed veterinary surgeons stationed in the Wairarapa district. It was also decided to ask the Wairarapa Society to co-operate in a request to the Government that one of the Shire stallions recently presented by Baron Rothschild should be located in the Wairarapa. In all probability fifteen or twenty candidates will offer themselves for the nine seats on the Masterton Borough Council. ' The Masterton Trust Bands Trustees ar e arranging to extend the period of a number of existing leases. : The Masterton Hockey Club opened the season' on'Sstnrday.'-The clnß promises to distinguish itself this year. . There are eighty-due old'ago pension* ere in Masterton district. I The Bangor of the AVellington Acclimatisation Society 'has made a. descent upon the Wairarapa, and one or two prosecutidns\h®e expected. - .' ; CARTERTON. (By., Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) Saturday, 4.25 p.nii . ;

After several abortive attempts a ho eke v ciib has been former!, and practice will be held oil Thursday next. The number of persons qualified to vote at the,- municipal elections is ,589. There is a probability that , among the candidates for the position of Councillor will be the retiring Mayor, Mr Deller. : Th 0 local bodies are strongly averse to contributing anything towards arches in Wellington at the 'Royal reception, Mr Holmes’s peregrinations in this district are unlikely to be rewarded with great success. At a meeting of the Taratahi-Car-terton Road Board this afternoon it was resolved to ask the. Government to expedite thoi expenditure/of Government grants- on .the East ! Coast roads, Mr Hornsby to’bo asked to facilitate the matter. _ ; The sum of ■ is -’being spent in enlarging and renovating the Roman Catholic Church/ Carterton. It was proposed to shift the building nearer th a town, but such strong opposition was offered by the southern congregation that t-he idea ■. I DANNHVIBKE. (By Telegraph.—Omi Correspondent.) ■ Saturday, 7 p.m. The Norsewood Co-operative Dairy Company has. decided to.test the South African market, and is preparing a trial shipment-of 300 boxes of, butterWord has been received that a Dannevirke member of the Third Contingent has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Pretoria for imper*

tiuence" to an Imperial captain, who drove him and other New Zealanders to desperation by brutal treatment and insults. Tho attention of the Premier is to be drawn to tho incident.