DISTRICT NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 February 1913, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS

K.MI'AROUO

(iiir Own t '■ivn'spnndcnl. Strong; winds accompanied by Jiojia v rain prevailed during the latter paic of lust week. Tiie rain !:iis done an iiirmense amount of good Lo pastures, and the country is looking wundortu.Iv fresh for tlie time of ye::r. " Bu.sli fires have caus.'d anxiety to several settlers previous to rain -citing in, are now almost out. in cases .satisfactory bums have been obtained, aiul there i« quite a large a von of kuid <o h* sown during the Autumn. A very enjoyable euchre tournament took place :n the hail las: Saticday week. The object -for which t'ho tournament was liekl, was to increase the. hall fund's, and the organisers have good reason to be satiMird with the success that attended their efforts. Keen interest was taken in the games and the prizes were won by Miss K. Lozell and Mr Tilson. 'J he latter part of the evening wa,s devoted to {lancing—a pastime that does not pall hero even during the hottest weather. Excellent, music was supplied by J Miss K. Lo/.eli and Messrs Gordon and T. Edwards.

Mr and Miss Jago, who received a severe shaking through their gig capsizing whilst they wero. driving on the Eketnhuna .Road, have now fully recovered from the effects of the accident.

The unbridged river on the Mt. Bruce Iload is still causing considerable ineonvenieneo and 1 loss to settlers in t'ho locality. During the heavy rains of, last week the river ro.se rapidly, and was soon running bank high. Whilst attempting to ford it last Friday', in order t;; convey milk to the j factory, Mr Harold Renall had a Jiar- j row escape from drowning. The. brake ho was driving was washed about a ch,-i : n. down the river, when it struck a log. and as the vehicle was capsizing, Mr Benall sprang out amkmanagecl to swim ashore. All efforts to save the horse- —n valuable animal, which Mr Rennll had recently purchased —proved fruitless. AY hen the Hood waters had subsided, the brake wa.s found, considerably damaged, but the milk cans have not yet been recovered. Mr lienalj suffered a good deal fr-vin exhaustion and shock. j Miss Fnlkner and Miss V. i'alknei- ' i.re paying an extended visit to their sister, Mrs McKenzie, of Wairoa. Miss Pallant is visiting friends in Wellington. Mrs Parker has just returned from a visit to relatives at Waikanae. t

CARTKKTO.Y

During the past month, seven births, two marriages, and lour deaths were registered in Carterton. An alteration is being made in the local telephone hours as from Monday next. Instead of keeping open till midnight, the exchange will close at 11 p.m. and re-open at 7 a.m. instead of 8 a.m. ft is expected that these hours will suit the .subscribers better. At a meeting held in Carterton on | Tuesday evening, it was decided to arrange a Caledonian Sports Gather: ing in Carterton under the auspices of +.'•»> Wairarapa Caledonian Society. All present were enrolled a committee, and a further meeting was arranged for Saturday night next, when the date of the gathering will he fixed and working committees appointed. Father Bowe, of the St Mary's Church;'who ha,s been attending the Retreat at Wellington, returned to Carterton on Friday night. Mr C. S. Gordon will act as relieving teacher on -ie staff of tho local j State School pending the appointment of Mr Robertson, who resigned to take up an appointment at a Wellington 'School. The Rev. A. C. W. Standage, from Wellington, is at present on a visit to Carterton. Mr I), J. McAuley, of Carrington, has patented an improved machine for sowing seeds and patent manures . broadcast. The machine acts in quite a different way from any at present ' on the market, and consists of a. hopper or manure box ha ving a sloping bottom, terminating in a, delivery pipe. A revolving tray mounted horizontally below the delivery pipe is rotated by means of a bevel toothed wheel fixed to a shaft, which receives motion from the wheel of the implement upon which is secured a. spur wheel, gearing with a spur wheel fixed to a shaft. When the ' implement travels over the ground, the spur wheels operate the shaft and the revolving tray which scatters seed and manure broadcast after it has fallen from the delivery pipe of the hopper in the. said tray. The revolving tray is corrugated radially in order to obtain the necessary spreading action for the proper distribution of the . seeds and manure J