MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 841, 13 June 1910, Page 2

MASTERTON NOTES.

BANKRUPT WHO CAN PAY, (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Masterton, June 12. One of tho evening trains travelling between Carterton and Masterton is now described as the "drunks- train," and the railway authorities are being asked to interpose and protect sober passengers from molestation. Already a sura of £900 has been subscribed towards the building and improvement scheme of the Y.M.C.A. Mr. A. Snowball (secretary) has returned from a visit to the country districts, whero he secured £100 .in subscriptions. Mr. H. Kebbell is reported to have let contracts for felling 1000 acres of bush in the Alfredton district. Other large contracts have also been let. A meeting of creditors iu the bankrupt estate of Alexander M'Kenzie, stock dealer, Featherstoii, was held in the Masterton Courthouse on Saturday morning. Bankrupt in his statement said he was perfectly solvent. His ad-, judication was brought about through some speculation he entered into about three years ago, which caused him the loss of over £2000. Ee was hoping to find sufficient ready cash to pay various accounts, making up this sum by the completion of the project he had in view. Before he could arrange matters he was served with a creditor's petition, a defence of which he did not file as lie believed he would have no trouble in settling. On this he was disappointed, and, it then being too late to defend, the petition was heard in his absence and an order of adjudication was made. Since his adjudication he had so far completed his arrangements that he could now pay his creditors iu full without the assignee having re- • course to his unconverted assets. The. bankrupt's statement showed liabilities amounting to £1669 2s. 10d., of which .< the Deputy Assignee Reported, that £1485 had already been lodged on account. The creditors decided that upon payment in full it be a recommendation that the bankruptcy be annulled. A number of Masterton tradesmen received a pleasant surprise a few days back by receipt of a. circular stating that a young business man who had be- - come insolvent nine years ago was desirous of paying,twenty shillings in the £.' Tho Rev. W. A. Heighway, a returned missionary from Fiji, conducted • the missionary service in the local Methodist Church this evening.' . A lad named Saber was kicked by a horse this morning, and sustained fracture of a leg. The monthly meeting of the Masterton Trust Lands Trustees.was held on Friday evening, the whole of .the mem- • bers hoing present with the exception of Messrs. C. E. Daniell and O. Prag-' nell (who are absent in Australia). Mr. Thomas Wagg was elected chairman for the; ensuing■ year;■ and returned thanksfor the honour conferred upon him. The treasurer reported a credit balance of £144 Bs.-10d., and accounts amounting to £72 10s.': were'passed'for'payment. .-■ The trust's seal was ordered.to be attached to the lease of the Town Hall to Messrs. Haywarck. Clark, and Vile. Mr. H. W. Jackson was granted a ' fourteen years' leaso of five sections adjoining his present leasehold. It was •" reported that the rents received from Mav 13 to June 10 amounted- to £165 2s.'lod. Mr. J. W. Cochrane, land and estate agent of this town, received a telegram yesterday announcing the death of his mother in Auckland. Mr. Cochrane will havethe .sympathy of a large circle of friends.' It was only a few weeks ? back that he lost his wife, so that his mother's death comes as a double shock. In returning thanks for his election as chairman of the Masterton Trust Lands Trust, Mr. Thos. Wagg, who is one of the oldest sitting members of . tho trust, expressed the opinion •. that tho trustees should devote more of . their income for the benefit of the school children. The letting of the Town Hall for pictures will mean a substantial addition to ._ the trust funds, and the revenue thus obtained will be available for expenditure upon the ■ schools of the district. - . - About twenty informations have been ■ laid against Masterton cyclists for- riding on footpaths at night without lights. Very heavy rain fell in Masterton all day on Thursday, and again on Friday. This brought the Ruamahunga River into flood, and low-lying flats were submerged. . Influenza is said to be very prevalent among horses in this district just now, and in one or two cases deaths have occurred. Charges have been preferred against 'several Masterton orchardists of failing to take the necessary steps to prevent the spread of codlm moth and scaly blight. The cases will be heard before the Stipendiary Magistrate on . June 2-1,