MANAWATU NOTES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7432, 9 May 1911, Page 6

MANAWATU NOTES

PEOM OWE OWN CORRESPONDENT. PALMERSTON, May' 8. Worshipful Brothers Walter Rutherford, P.M., ajid Cr.S. elect, Collingwood, P.M., and J. Pawson, P.M., leave Palm ’erston this week as delegates to the Grand Lodge conference at Christchurch. A local wholesale firm is considering the advisability of, hauling its goods hy steam_ waggon from Foxton to Palmerston, instead of railing them. A motor waggon has been obtained, and will bo given a thorough trial this week. The following are the scores of the members of the Palmerston North Rifles who fired off the third section for the non-coms.'’ shield on Saturday:—

At ths annual meeting of All Stains’ Children’s Homo the ' annual report, whieh was read and adopted, made reference to the wihdrawal from active work of Yen. Archdeacon Harper, the founder of the institution. A deht of .£BOO and an overdraft of XI2G 12s remain on the building. The old board of directors was re-elected, and Mesdames Kosher, Lyons, Abraham and Porvitt were elected as - a ladies’ committee. The Manawatn Hunt Clnb held another successful meet on Saturday afternoon at Fitahorbert Bast. The trail was laid from the property of Hr S. E. Lancaster aoross the farms of Messrs Kyle, Anderson, Staee, and Peterson, ending at Mr S. K. Lancaster's, where refreshments were dispensed. Mr T. Shaw was in charge of the field, and Mr J. Shaw acted as whip. _ At a meeting of the club committee in tho evening it was reported that the hunters' cup donated by Messrs Coilinson and Cunninghame would bo competed for at the winter show instead of at tho spring fixture.

200 500 Tl. yds. yds. Corp. Ball 31 31 — 05 Col.-Sergt. Perrin 32 — 63 Sorgt. Stock 32 31 — 63 Pte. G. Tremaine 31 23 — 31