MASTERTON.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4488, 16 October 1901, Page 3

MASTERTON.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) Tuesday, 7 p.m. 1 Athletics in Masterton are exceedingly slow. Last season a senior football team could not be got together, and cricket is in a similar condition.' An effort just made to revive the good old English sport has failed, chiefly on account of the lack of a suitable pitch. ~ . A man named John Ritchie had a birthday yesterday. and in his hflaritv he be came most offensive to a lady and eventually assaulted'her. This morning he was penitent, and expressed a desire to lead a sober and industrious life. The Magistrate gave him one month in which to learn these virtues under the supervision of Mr Garvey. Alfred Welch, dsapen, of Masterton, was do da- adjudicated bankrupt. The first meeting of creditors will be held in, Wellington on Monday. 28th inst. The Masterton Borough ■ Council has notified the assistant engineer ; that the water and drainage works were taken over as from October 10th in “thorough and efficient order.” The Works Committee last night decided to recommend the provision of several public .urinals and the selection of suitable sites was left with the engineerThe work of distributing trout fry from the Masterton fish ponds is just about completed for the present season. There are now only 60,000 fry at the ponds. These will he liberated in streams in the Wairarapa. The camp occupied by the couoperative labourers on the P»rkvillei_Maiigataiuoka road near Eketahnna was destroyed by fire the other night. The fire occurred whilst the men were asleep, and they had inst time to escape.' One of the men,Maurice Savage,'was singed about the head and fact. Almost everything in tho camp was destroyed. As a result of the visit of the president and secretary of the Masterton A. and P. Association to tho Hawke’s Bay show, the Masterton Association, may confident. Iv except t» receive heavy entries from the whole of the Hawke’s Bay district. Numerous promises of nominations in Un. coin, Leicester and crossbred sheep, short, horn cattle and all classes of horses have been received. From Manawatu algo Mr

Sykes expects such large entries in Romney and Leicester sheep, Ayrshire?, horses and pigs that he is of opinion the association will have to face heavy expenditure in extending the sheep and catile yards for the next show.