MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 990, 3 December 1910, Page 15

MASTERTON NOTES.

— 0 —• FAREWELL -TO LOCKERS. [From Our Special Corrcspondent.l Masterton, December 2. Several charges of. breaches of tho Licensing. Act wore sot down for hearing in tho Magistrate's Court this morning, but as Mr. L. G. Reid,.S.M., was engaged at a sitting, of tho Pahiatua Licensing Bench the cases wero adjourned untilDecemher 16. Tho Masterton Amateur Theatrical Society produced-the opera "Les Cloches de Cornovillo" in tho Town Hall on Wednesday and Thursday nights to large audiences.' The performance was very creditable, the choruses being strong and the principal .parts well taken. Mr. George Gray was conductor.. _ Hares are reported to be numerous in and around Masterton, and they aro causing some annoyance to orchardists. A man named Nesbit was fined os. and 7s. costs in the Magistrate's Court this morning for a breach of tbo Motor Regulation Act in failing, to. display tho registered number of his motor bicycle. This is the first case of the kind hoard in the district. Denis A. O'Loughlin, cngine-drivor, of- Masterton, was to-day adjudicated bankrupt. '. In November, 1903, fifty-four criminal charges were preferred in Masterton, whereas only five wero heard 'during tho month of November this year. Crimd of a serious nature is practically unknown to Masterton. Since tho now Licensing Act came into oneration tho locker system has been abandoned in Masterton. Young,lambs are already being.drafted in tbis district, for the freezing works. A noticeable feature about the lambs and -hoggets this year is-tho absence of scour. • : Grain crops are ripening much earlier than usual this season.,. In a few days' time tho reaper and binder will bo in evidence in many fields. The . season for small fruits is also earlier than last year, ripo currants, gooseberries, and rasnbernos already being gathered. Tlio Rev. A. T. Thompson and Mrs. -.Thompson, • of the Presbyterian Church, who.-have. been, on a visit to .tho Old Country,, are' to bo entertained at a wolcome home "social" this evening. Thero.is still no indication of a start being mado. with the erection' of tho now . courthouse in Masterton. It is reported that fresh plans are being prepared. A CENTRAL QTAGO TRAVELLER. "For the last twenty years I havo been travelling the Central Otago goldfields," writes Mr. Georgo Mitchell, who represents Messrs. MacKerras ■ and Hazlett, of Dun'edin, N.Z. ■ "Invariably every year I'havo been seized'with an attack of what is known here' as the 'Goliliields' Colic/ I havo always used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,- and after ono or two doses the trouble has disappeared.' I recommend it most strongly to those who suffei 1 from this serious complaint." ■ ' t2 A. cyclone in Cuba has wrought great destruction to the sugar • and tobacco crops, and thousands of peasants in the three western provinces havo been rendered homeless and destitute. Owing to'tho alleged stringency of certain new regulations, a number of men in the locomotive section on the Egyptian State railways recently struck,work. They stoned the. general manager and demol-/ ished. a train with crowbars. Sanguin-. ary encounters between the strikers and police and troops' resulted in forty arrests.