MASTERTON NOTES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6384, 5 December 1907, Page 6

MASTERTON NOTES

(From Our Own Correspondent.) MASTERTON, December 4. * Tho Mafiterton A. and P. Association has received fourteen entries for the dairy cow class in connection with tho show in February. The entries will bo judged and milked on Friday, 13th inst. Eleven stewards have been appointed to supervise the milking. A collision of a minor nature occurred in tho railway station yards about 3 o'clock this morning. After the arrival of a night goods train from tho south, while shunting operations wore in progress, an engine, to which was attached a number of trucks, was run on to tho wrong line through some mistake in tho shifting of points., and collided with a stationary van. The buffer of the latter and some of the woodwork were smashed, but no other damage resulted. Tho noise of tho collision awoke several residents in the vicinity of the station. An 'accommodation hut has been erected on Mount Holdsworth, and tourists,, of whom a largo number is expected to make the ascent of tho mountain during the summer, will find it very convenient. There is accommodation for about twenty persons. A local committee is making every effort to make the mountain a popular tourist resort. Tho mounted rifle corps will go into camp at Willowbank (Opaki) on December 2Sth for a week. No further development has taken place in connection with the discovery of coal deposits at Mauricevill«. Th' owners of the property on which the coal has been discovered are pndcavouring to get a syndicate formed to work the deposits. ■