CARTERTON NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8278, 20 October 1905, Page 6

CARTERTON NOTES.

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(Special to Daily Times.)

Between twenty and twenty-five members of tho local Thursday Cricket Club hold a very interesting practice oa Carrington Park, on Thursday afternoon, and, although it was only their second practice, the players showed very good form.

Four entries have been received for the buck-jumping competition at the forthcoming Show of tho Wairarapa and East Coast P. and A. Society. I understand that the entries in horses this year constitute a record.

Mr W. W. Mansfield has donated £1 to the funds of the local Brass Band.

The local Bowling Green was formally opened on Thursday afternoon, when there was a fair attendance of members, their wives and families. Owing to tin weather coming up showery, no games wero played.

The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Heart of Oak Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U. was held on Wednesday evening, N.G. Bro. W. Robinson, presiding. Three members were reported on the sick fund. The report of the delegate to the Friendly Societies' Council was read and considered. Receipts for the evening were £5 18s 2d and disbursements £27.

The racehorse Noneen, in charge of her trainer, Mr Nat Dixon, left here on Thursday, en route for the Hutt, to fulfil her engagements at the AVellington Spring Meeting.

Misses Reid and Percy held their assembly dance in the Victoria Hall, on Thursday evening, when there was a fair attendance. Thcso young ladies- organised their dances in aid of the local Brass Bund funds.

At the invitation of Mr 11. McPhee, who recently imported a stone-crusher, Messrs Jas. Brown (Mayor), G. Stevens (County Councillor), F. Feist, and others, on Wednesday witnessed the machine put through a quantity of boulders, and reduce them to sprawls of various sizes. The machine kept three men feeding it with boulders, and the product was considered by those present to be a splendid sample of road metal.