PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 890, 9 August 1910, Page 8

PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

(From Our Special Corrosponaenu.J FEILDING, The weather in the l''eilding back coun-. try is delightfully- mild and warm it present. Lambing is progressing favourably so far, and dairy hards arc beginning' to come into profit, Jlr. Orr, who left lieacoustield last March on a trip to the Old Country, has returned. He reports that everything excepting potatoes was selling at exceptionally high rates. Pork was bringing 07s. per 'cwt., while weauer pigs were selling at £2 each. He predicted a high price for JJ«w. Zealand pro-, (luce on the Home markets this season. A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of llrs. it. A. Cn\e, of Rongotea, was held ycsterdayl before Mr. (i. .1. Scott, District Official Assignee. Bankrupt's statement -showed liabilities .£252 Us. Id.,- with assets- totalling £B 4s. -k\. In a further statement, Mrs. Cave mentioned that she had purchased property at Kongotea and started brickmaking, but an opposition firm had reduced the price of bricks. - Also she had expected to receive money from, her mother's estate, but this had not yet come to baud. SHANNON. Mr. J. B. Stansell is circulating a petition asking the Government to refuse to grant the bonus ivliich the New Zealand Flaxmillers'' Association have requested them to place on the Estimates for an improved process for dressing flax. '■'. OTAKI. ■'■■ -A.-little girl .named Wilson , , residing on the Convent Ecad, fell from a.cart yesterday, but, fortunately, escaped serious injury, though she sustained bruises by coming in contact with a wheel. 1 Sir. W. Tompsitt, who started a list in connection with the Children's Hospital at Wellington a few days ago, has been very successful, having met with svery few refusals. . ■ ■ A hunt here on Saturday saw twenty followers taking part. ■ The course was a long and hard one, and many horses failed to take all the obstacles. Lady riders again participated in the fnn, and "rode to hounds" in good style. A- movement is on foot to again form our township into a borough, and the promoters, Messrs. , Skernian, Tompsifct, Judd, and Jones, are, in the opinion of many, taking a step in the right direction.' -A meeting will be called in the course of a week, or ten days. At a meeting of the Otaki Eoad , Board on Saturday it was again decided to push on the work'of erecting ocetyiine lamps. Warden.Eollo gave notice to move that the.board acquire the necessary land to connect Dunstan .Street 'with Mill Eoad. I WOODVILLE. .■-■-. The'farm recently acquired'by Mi. J. Franklin in the. Mnharahuru has been leased to a son and son-in-law of the Eev. Mr. -Gardiner, who'' purpose taking up farming pursuits. •' An appeal Is'being lodged with . the Hawke's-Bay Eugby Union regarding the Dannevirko sub-union's . decision in suspending a player named Monteith. ' The School football team tried , conclusions' with' the Dannevirke School fifteen for the , Hawke's Bay championship last week, but were beaten. The Woodville boys , were naturally . disappointed, as they had played .well throughout the season;, and the result of the last match prevents their, competing against the champions at the Napier end. The committee incharge of the.arrangements of the annual volunteer social report that matters are well in hand, and a successful meeting is expected. .