LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 1884, 3 November 1904, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A line of fat wethers (100) was sold at Havelock (Marlborough Sounds) a few days ago at £1 per bead, though the sheep were not at all heavy. Whitebait are very plentiful iu the Buffer river. Fishers say they have not seen them so numerous before. Some of the fishers are making £5 and over per week. Owing to the heavy gale telegraphic communication was interrupted the whole of this morning, with the result that there is an entire dearth of late cable and telegraphic news to-day. Mr, Mrs and Miss Hazelden, formerly of Bangitikei, talk of returning to New Zealand soon, the prospects not being sufficiently enticing to encourage a permanent stay in South Africa.

A replace advertisement from Mrs Milne, Central Book Arcade, appears in this issue. Chriitmas numbers of the leading weekly journale of the colony, new pictorial post cards, Ohrivtmas cards, etc., are obtainable at this establishment. Members of the Pabiatua Rifles are reminded that there will not be a parade to-morrow night, but a fall muster is requested on the following Friday night, the 11th inst., to make final arrangements for going into camp on the 16ih inst. On Monday next Mr D. Crewe will hold a clearing sale on account of Mr Joseph Jessop, of Short-road, Mangatainoka, who is leaving the district. The list, particulars of which will be found in an advertisement on our eiphth page, includes a lot of useful articles.

The police intend to prosecute ail boys letting off crackers in the principal streets of the town, owing to narrow escapes from serious accidents occurring, through horses being frightened. The indiscriminate letting-off of crackers in the main streets is also a source of annoyance to pedestrians, ladies especially. It is hoped boys will take heed of the warning given them. The secretary of the Pahialua Brass Band received intimation yesterday from Mr Holbiu, of Palmerston North, to the effect that the Band Contest Management Committee had decided to abandon the quick-step competition. The local bandsmen, alter having been practising for some considerable time in order to make themselves as proficient bs possible, naturally f- el aggrieved at the abandonment of the competition mentioned.

That sheep can be handled in this district to considerable advantage to the owner is evident when the substantial price of llsd per lb can be realised for the wool clip. This, we understand, was the amount obtained for last year’s clip by Mr C, E. Beetham, of Mangatainoka. The chief desideratum, however, seems to be hating the correct breed, and although Mr Beetham has tried other varieties of sheep, chiefly the Lincolns, these have all been discarded for the much superior merits—for this district —of the Romney sheep, from a flock of which the above price for wool was realised.

In connection with the recent agitation in the Wairarapa for a better system of railway communication between this district and the Manswatu, the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce has taken a hand. It has resolved that a deputation representing the Wairarapa, Pabiatua and Manawatu local bodies shall interview the Minister for Railways when he attends the Palmerston show, with the object of explaining the necessity for au improved service between the Palmerston North, Pabiatua, and Wairarapa districts. This is a matter that should be taken in hand at once by the Pabiatua Chamber of Commerce.

The following handicaps have been allotted to the local athletes taking part in the Hawke's Bay Axemen’s Carnival to bo held at Dannevirke on the Dili inst:—W. Farreily has received 11yds, 18yds and 25yds for the 100, 220 and 410yds races respectively. In tho half-mile, mile, milo and two miles cycling events, O. 11. Degorman has received 45yds, 80yds and 140yds. In tho handicap standing obop L. Berg is scratch, conceding 6o seconds to tho limit men. In the handioap underhand chop this competitor is at scratch, the limit man being given 70 seoonds. Messrs Berg Brothers, in tho handicap two-mou saw, are scratoh, while they nro also competing in the double-handod championship sawing competition. Wills' tipaoial Cough Cnr.i, The only oouarh cure taken by the Pshlatna public l «i.*