SOUTH WAIRARAPA NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9595, 5 February 1910, Page 6

SOUTH WAIRARAPA NEWS.

(Special to Daily Times.'

Tho estate of the Into George Wiggins, of Greytowu, lias boon certified for stump duty at £-20-18. Ou account of previous arrangements with Cartorton, tho Martinborough Tenuis Club is unable to play Feathersou at Featherstou this Saturday, ami the mutch has ueou postponed uutil Saturday week. The hour of closing shops in Cartorton is shortly to be altered from 1) o'clock on Saturday evenings to '.).:'>(', during the summer mouths. The takings ou the first night of the Catholic Bazaar at Cartertou amounted to sonic £<>0. Summer weather is once moro prevailing in South Wairarapa. Mr It. Smith, of Cartertou, is at present coustrnctiui. , a septic tank at tho Clareville JNative College. Au order for additional uniforms has been placed witn Halloustein Bros, by the Carterton Fire Brigade. Tho delegate to the United Fire Brigades' Conference at Hastings this mouth lias been allowed to use his discretion in the election of oHicers, and in voting on the business of the meeting. A start is to be made on Wednesday eveuing with the shield competition. The Masterton Friendly Societies' Council has invited the Cartertou Council to a social evening to bo held at Mastertou ou Monthly, - 2Sth February. Miss Herdmau, a pupil teacher at the Cartertou School, is leaving at the end of the mouth to enter the Teachers' Training College at Wellington. The takings for the seeoud day of the Catholic Bazaar at Cartertou amonuted to £40 Next week ikH-3 cases of Wairarapa cheese will be taken to the Home market by the Corinthic. Tho consi gumenfc is made up as follows:— Dalefielil 400 cases, Belvedere 200, Parkvale 1!)'J, Taratahi 1(10, Longbush 30.

An unpleasant experience was the lot of Mr S. Gregory, of Oartertou, on Friday He was driving along Khodes-streot, when the breochiug strap broke, and the horse began to kick and 'veutually bolted. The driver managed the horse as best ho could, and rau it into a fence, its legs aud chest being uut somewhat by contact with the wire of the fence, but, fortunately, not seriously. Ono birth, one marriage aud no deaths were registered in Featherston during January. The rainfall recorded in Featherston for January was 11.v.l inches, eleven out of the tlurty-oun days being wet. The heaviest fall was ou January 30th, when 3.0? inches fell.