CARTERTON NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9711, 5 February 1910, Page 6

CARTERTON NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Thursday. Mr George Armstrong, son of Mrs >P J. Armstrong, who recently sold, his interest .in Times," intends leaving shortly on a trip to England. Yeßterday one of the axle boxes of Mr T. J. Rathbone's timber dray took fire, caused by the wheel fitting to close on a new axle. The dray was drawn into Mr W. Stevens' coachbuilding establishment, where it received the required attention. The takings at the Catholic Bazaar yesterday afternoon and evening amounted to £6O. Two weddings will take place at St. Mark's Church in Tuesday afternoon next. Mrs Eagle -senr., Mrs and Miss Davison have returned home after a pleasant month's holiday at Roterua. Mr W. Steer, who was for some time baker for Mrs A. L. Whyte here, has gone into a similar business on his own account in Wellington. xbe Borough Council staff are at present engaged replacing Ihe old wooden culvert -near Mr Moore'a residence in Morton Road with concrete pipes. The Works .Committee of the Borough uouncil, together with Mr G. H. Herbert engineer, purpose visiting all likely sitesjfor swimming baths to-morrow. Mr H. S. Moss, secretary to the Wairarapa P. and A. Society, who has been attending the Feilding Show, returned to town last night. I understand that.iitiis the intention of the shopketpers of Carterton to get the hour of closing on Saturday evenings altered from 9 o'clock to 9.30 for the summer evenings only. It is also suggested to close at 5.30 instead of six during the winter evenings.

boyai Heart of Oak Lodge, 1.U.0.F., M.U., met last evening, Bro. J. Fensham, N.G. presiding. The asenda DaDer for the district meeting was received and read fay the secretary. Calendars for Che years were received from the District Office, and distributed among tbe members present. One new member was initiated, the G.M, Bro. Butler, reading the initiation charge. It was announced that the G.M. would deliver a lecture next Lodge night. Receipts for the meeting were £ls Is 4d, and disbursements £6 13s4d.

Considerable damage was done to a number of orchard crops in this district by the recent rain. At Belvedere one fruitgrower lost over a hundredweight of plums, due to their cracking beyond use. A number of farmers who were trying to economise by having th„ir grain crops threshed from the stook suffered rather badly through the recent rain. They were not able to get the machine along in time, and consequently had their crops in the stook ail through the wet weather. What they have saved in labour the rain has taken off the grain in market -value. A large parcy, principally ladies. left here last evening to essay the climb to Mount Holdsworth. This afternoon a number of the members of the local Rifle Volunteers put in class firing at the Belvedere range. Friday. Mr E. Goodin, of Park Road has a very promising crop of pumpkins and marrows. If the weather conditions keep tavourable there will be some that will take a lot of beating at the Horticultural Show. Miss Nellie Herdman, at preesnt a pupil teacher at the local school, leaves at the beginning of the month to enter the teachers' training college at Wellington. Captain and Mrs Adams, of the Salvation Army, left here this morning for their new sphere of last bour at Norsewood, Captain and MrI Rose, their successors, arrived by the afternoon train. The local Fire Brigade has decided to place an order with Hallenstein Bros., for a number of uniforms. It