MASTERTON NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8189, 2 August 1912, Page 3

MASTERTON NEWS

moil oua own coaaESPONDENT. August 1. THo net proceeds of shc*p and iambs forwarded to ixmdou by tho Master!on Agricultural and Pastoral Association in connection with the lust Solway show amounted to Xs& 12s lid. Tins sum,is io bo distributed between fifteen exhibitors. The biggest cheque wont to M.r VN . H, lieetham, oi ilrancepoth, viz., -£7O 7s 7d, whiio the smallest cheque was -L-l 2s l<i. Two hankrupiciefi wore recorded in Wumira'fbi in duly, malting the total for the year up till July 31st six. i-jvo old age pensions were granted in Ma.stcrton hi-d. mouth. Mr and Mrs E. Welch, of Mastorlon, v, lio aiu at present on a visit to England, wih return home by tho steamer Otway in .September. Several opossums have been seen in the* vicinity oi Tauhorcuikau. A boil t twenty years ago the Wellington AccliiiKiUsititm Sociciy liberated a number of opo.-;siimfl in the locality and the animals seen are supposed to be descendants of these.

Nothing ha« licon seen of tha station band Richardson, who has been missing from Alfredfou for nearly three weeks iio in supposed to havo boon drowned in the river.

Mr T. C. JJannister, who has been on tho staff of tho Maaterton Farmers Imvlement Company for sixteen years, has purchased a farm at Langdalo and also the blacksmith shoo there. Mr and Mrs A. Welch, of Mastorton, ivho are at present holiday making m Aastra-lla. left Sydney tor Melbourne on Tuesday. .Mr .). Richardson, of Levin, has purchased a purebred Jersey bull from Mr 11. Eagle, junior, of Belvedere. Meters W. Parry, J. C. Cooper and B. Alcbiicgor, junior, of mnsterton, and Mr H. A. Kevins, of Tonui, will deliver addresses to tho ill rinors’ Union meeting a' ''Vatiierston on Saturday. Air J. I’"yi r, manager of tho drapery department at tho W.F.C.A.. is at present in a private hospital, where he will undergo a serious operation. The Mastcrton harriers held a crosscountry rim last evening, finishing np with a 200 yardS "run home on the Park Oval in which C. La Kocho (12 yards) was first, J. Bradbury (scratch) second, and E. Flanagan (5 yards) third. Ths club’s next meet will be at Mr Cx. Shaw’s pinco at To Ore Ore. 'The sum of .£320 lias been collected in Eketahuna In aid of establishing a public hospital in that town. The'death occurred at Hamilton this week of Mrs Blackman, mother of Mr J. W. Blackman, manager of the Masterton gasworks.