MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1050, 13 February 1911, Page 8

MASTERTON NOTES.

i, ;By Tckcraph.—Spcoinl Correspondent) Mastorton, February 12. At a meeting of Native owners held hero yesterday, the offer of tho Government to purchase about 12,000 acrcsof the Waitutuma Block, near Capo Palliscr, at prices ranging from ,5?. .Gd. to 20s. per nere, was considered.' Tho Natives agreed to. sell, bnt asksd a higher prico than -th'ej Government is offering." ".

A largo number of exhibits havo nlready arrived.for thp-Masterton .show, ahd visitors are pourin's'into the'town. It is expected that between Jlosterton and Carterton there"will" be iamplo accommodation. His Excellency the Governor, will arrive at 11 'o'clock on'-.Wcd-' nesday, and will' plant" a' memorial tree at 12.30. On'tho , opening day 'of ' the' show, Tuesday, a. number of. interesting competitions will bo got off, including maiden jumping and ■ hunters': leaping competition. For tho former there aro twenty-pne entries, and fpr ,tho latter thirty. The Mostertoii,? Carterton, Taueru, Olar'enlle, Lansdpwne, Eoriifokekaho; Te Ore Ore, and;Greytowri' , Sqlio6ls are comp-sting.in; the'"schooT .which promise an excellent show of fruits, vegetables and ( cereals.-,' In. dairy produce there arc, six entries r of. butter f6r, e'r-' port 'atid nir.? for cheese:,'' The jump,- which is to be decide'd oh'Wfdnesday, and for %st prize is £50, has .brou/rht out forty-three comall parts' of. thb-.Dominion ■ 1 ho keenest competition at the show will be in the sheep classes, ,n largo. number of Rawkos B?v-,anil,,Wcst -Coast, sheep having'beeft entered.'. '

""me' years ago" Mr. 'JirPonald,' tho ontcrprisirn: hondmnster of Ednani Public School, with tho consent and encouragement "( tho Sihool Eoard.'took Mn the • ■wr-'-'isinij of certain subjects, thoso appealing to scholars •of different tastes, ■'.id aspirations. Durin?'the past- y<>.ir or two. under tho- dircttion of Mr. M'Donold and. his assistants, they have beeni studying Shakespeare. In 1909' they .travo v:hat was admitted to be a'eood Mpresent.-vtion-of "The 'Merchant'.of 'Venice, -and in-Ti-.-nrnberilaßt-i they, gave ;, -f crowded houses an even , better representation of ."Hamlet." : ' , '-.-•'