PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1083, 23 March 1911, Page 6

PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

(From Oar Special Correspondents.) ■— i FEILDING, ■ ' Mr. James Grant, agricultural inslruo tor for the Wnnganui Education Board, f, , s , T ' CI -' C .^ oo .' : f' lo boys attending tlio l'eilding District High School to Mr. Ernest !Short's farm near Cheltenham oil a visit of inspection and instruction. Mr. James Dunlop, manager of the farm, welcomed the scholastic invasion, and did everything in his power to make the visit as profitable as possible. Mr. I). Stewart, assistant-inspector for 1 tlio Wonsiuiui Education district, lias taken a house in Feildiiig for six months. Ho goes to the Kimbolton district to commence duly to-day. Mr. E. L. Mason, who leaves for Dune- ' din to-day, has been presented with a thermos ilask by his colleagues of the local branch of the Bank of Australasia. Mr. Montgomery, manager, made the presentation. The Rewa Hall Committee's second ati< nual sports meeting yielded .240. OTAKI. The annual general meeting of tha Taiimi Football Club was held in tlin Druids' Hall on Tuesday night, Mr. H. Nicolson presiding. There was a fair attendance of members. It was decided to carry on tlio club on the fame,lines as last season, and to endeavour to form a senior club as well as a junior. Towards this proposal hearty support was promised. It was decidcd that tlio club's colours should bo blue and white, and it was also resolved to open the season with a practice game oil Saturday week, arrangements to be made in the meantime ■ foiv.tjie ,use of. the Domain ground, Tlio following officers were elected for -the ensuing year:—Patron, Mr. C. A. AY. Moncklon; president, . Mr. W. M'Kegg; vicepresidents, Messrs. A. and If. Bright, J. Johnson, Kupa Ilamca, and W. M. Simccx; management committee, Messrs. G. Gordon, H. Tiawiri, D. AYilson, liingi. T'ahiwi, R. Thomson, R. I''. Mann; club captain and treasurer, Mr. G. Gordon; secretary, Jir. E. Lanchester; delegates to tlio union, Messrs. Tahiroi and J. Freeman (seniors), and R. E. Mann (junior)., Tlio election of a field captain and match committeo was left over till a further meeting. A number, of now books have been added to the Otaki Public Library. SHANNON. The opening of the Literary and Debating Society will take place on April 11, when a social evening will be held. Mr. A. Inge recently purchased tha. farm which Air. AY. Gardner had sold to Mr. R. Tippler. Mif.'s Oswir., 8.A., l'ea.thcrston, will shortly take up duty as schoolmistress at Makerua. The Anglican Sunday Sehosl picnic, which had been postponed on account oi wet weather, took placo on Mr. Kilsby's property last Saturday, and was in every way successful. Next month the Rev. C. Palmer will tako up duty as Anglican clergyman tor • the Shannon and Tokomarn districts. The following will represent the local rifle club in tile, Field Shield competition at Palmcrston North next Saturday: —Captain G. N. Stephenson. Riflemen AY. Shearman, E. Spencer, B. Spencer, 11. Law, E. Law, C. C'ouper, Sutton, and M'Rae (2). On Friday afternoon last, at Miranui, Mr. A. Seifert presented Mr. James HalLam with a handsome travelling-rug, fountain pen, and an illuminated address on behalf of all tlio employees of tha company. Jir. Ilallam, who has been on the clerical staff sinco the inception ot the company, is leaving next month on a visit to the Old Country. St. Patrick has a very large number of devotees in this district, so that it almost goes without saying that the annual entertainment given bv members of tlio Roman Catholic Church last Friday evening was in every way' successful. . Mrs. Dalton, Mr. Twohill (AA'ellington), Mrs. Bythe (Levin), Mrs. Hall (Moutoa), Master M'Leavy, Miss Nunnford (Oroua Bridge), and other visitors assisted tha local performers. Messrs. J. Curran and E. J. King were M.C.'s for the daneo that followed. Mrs. Dalton was tlio pianist.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Levin, advertise an ideal dairy farm for lease in this issue. The season's closing sale of the Cvcla and Motor Supplies, Ltd., Parish Street, is now 011, and intending purchasers should writo for n list of bargains. A number of titles of first-class novels aro given iii an advertisement which anpears ill this issue, inserted by \Vhitcombe and Tombs. Two cheap farms in the Wairarana are' advertised for sale in this issue bv Mc-s's C. C.' Koss and Co., estate agents', Masterton. On Tuesday, Anrii 11, Messrs. Harcourt ami Co. will sell at. their rooms, Lamb ton Quay, a residence in Majcribaiiks. Street, and aU° some building sites situate at Muritai. iY a ? f tatod in our issue of yestcruay that Iho mooting of tfhopkeept'rs lavoura^cl to the retention of Hie AWdnesnay Jia.f-hohday would l)o lipid on Wedneklay evening. This was an error. Tho meeting is to be held to-night at 5.30 in the Masonic Hall, Bnukolt Street. Considerable opposition is being shown lo ••uy proposed -change. Already over three 'hundred shopkeepers have signed for tho holiday as it is now observed. Messrs. Harcourt and Co. will sell today by public auction at the homestead, Waikanae (on accoun tof Mr. Alex. Trotter, who has sold bis farm and is leaving tho district) the whole of his stock and furniture. Among tho lots Jo lie offered are seven cows in full profit, horse, cart, niul harness, OS fowls, milk-pans, churns, pails, coolers, etc. The furnituro contains, among other lot's, a liandj-omo Mining-room suite, upholstered in green lltrocht velvet and consisting of four dining-chairs, two arm-chairs, and olid colonial sofa. There is also a. splendid piano by lurchner in a walnut case, and tho auctioneers state that it is a firstclass instrument!