PROVINCIAL CENTRES

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 28 January 1911, Page 13

PROVINCIAL CENTRES

(From Our.Special Correspondents.) , •$ S: FEILDING. Slaughterings at the abattoirs during' December wero as follow: —50 cows (ono condemned), 27 .heifersj 23 bullocks, 291 ewes (one condemned),.s6 wethers, 19S lambs, 7 pigs, and 3 calves. The Manchester Riilcs will fire a match with the l'almerston Rifles to-day at Feikliug. The ranges-arc to be 200, 500, and 000 yards.

Twenty-one straying and ownerless dogs havo been destroyed in Feilding, and tho fees collected in tho year (£4l) wero tho highest on rcord.

"That's the way we are- treated by the Government," said the Mayor, when he had read a report stating that four letters and a telegram had been sent to Government • Departments regarding the registration- of motor-cars, and not a single reply had been received.

A welcome tea and mooting, to introduce Ensign and Mrs. Hulquist to the soldiers, and friends of the Salvation Army, was held in the Army Hall on Thursday night.

Tho annual meeting of the Apiti Horticultural Society elected the following officers:—Patron, Mr. D, H. Guthrie,' M.P.; president, Mr. H. Osborne; vicepresidents, Messrs. F. Heldt, G. Cowan,. H..Viles, F. S: Guy, Lawson, Gibson,. Duncan, and Mowat; secretary, Mr. H. Bloomfield; treasurer, Mr: H. Bennett ■, assistant secretaries, Messrs. H. Bennett aiid Wm. M'Kay; executive committee, Messrs. Purnell, Rumbold, M'lntyre, Waterson, O'Reilly, Palmer, Matthews, .Vaile,. W. Guy, >. and G. Geange.- A strong working committee was also elected.' ■

Mr. Butler, an Apiti settler,.met with a compound dislocaton of the knee recently through been thrown out of his milU-cart. He-was taken to the Palmerston Hospital in the ambulance van.

' A united picnic (Methodist' and Presbyterian Sunday School scholars and adults) was held at the Oroua River on Anniversary Day.

FEATHERSTON

'& man named Turner, a rabbiter, engaged on tho Glenburn Station (East. Coast), met with a serious gun accident on Monday last. It appears that ho hung a gun up by the trigger, when it exploded, and 'the charge entered 'his groin and thigh, inflicting a .painful wound.; The. injury was complicated by a box of matches which he; had in his pocket being driven. into if. He was removed to.the- Mastertoh. Hospital.

Matters at the camp at Tauherinikau are going on very smoothly, and, conse-. .qucntly, there'is little of any consequence to report. The various squads who have been drilled were being put through a written examination yesterday. Dr. Purdy, P.M.0., paid an official visit to tho'camp this week;

CARTERTON

- A Yankee tournament is to bo played' on tho tenuis courts at tho-.'local bowline green ■ on. Thursday next. ili'ss Bish has provided a trophy for tho'lady. players, and another will bo. forthcoming for tho men..'

The local public ' schools -re-open on. Monday' nest "after the summer" vacation. ''.'.■'.:•. ''.',:.

■ The late Mr. H. M. Lyon, whose death occurred at Trentham on Wednesday, was well known hi-the Wairara'pa, where ho had'many friends. ~: At Greytown on Thursday next the following Carterton bowling rinks will compete against the homo club in tho Booth Cup contest:—Phillpotts, Lightfoqt, Why.te, Fisher; M'Phee, H. Hall, Barry, Ramsay; Hughan, F. Lindop; Masson, and Roydhouse. Mr. John M'. Smith, labourer, of .Carterton', has been adjudged a bankrupt. His creditors .'meet at the Courthouse on Tuesday, next. ■ . ... At Auckland "on Anniversary, ' Day (Monday), Mr. Martin Bish, eldest son of Mr. A. Bish, of Carterton, was married to Miss Blanche Andrews, of Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. M. Bish will take' up their residence in Carterton. Mr. T. "W. Sparks,, of Wairoa, was', among tho visitors to Carterton during tho week. • '

MASTERTON.

. The rainfall "registered at Masterton for tho 24 hours "ending to-day was 1.50 points. • The Ven; Archdeacon Fancourt,- who has been enjoying' a fortnight's furlough, 'was in Masterton to-day. He returns to Wellington this afternoon.

Mr. P. Garvey, of Masterton, has been appointed to represent '.Messrs. Dnlgety and Co., Ltd., in business at Upper Hutt. Tho Masterton Musical and: Elocutionary Competitions Society has drawn up a- programme for the 'competitions which arc to bo held in Mas T tcrton during tho winter. This will be submitted to a meeting.of tho General Committee on Monday next. ! \

It is expected that Mr.. C. E.'DanielI y tho' sitting member, will'be tho only candidate for this end of-'the' Wairarapa at tho forthcoming election of members of tho Wellington Harbour Board. ' •