PROVINCIAL CENTRES

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1183, 19 July 1911, Page 8

PROVINCIAL CENTRES

IFfom Our Special Correspondents.)

FEILDING. Mr. D. H. Guthrie, M.P., bad an enthusiasts reception at ICimbolton last night, when lie gave the electors in that district an account of his stewardship in Parliament. lie received a vote of thanks and confidence. ' Early next month the Rev. J. Gibson Smith, M.A., of St. Andrew's, Wellington, is to give a lecture on "Tennyson" in the Presbyterian Hall, Fcildng. A pasteurising plant is being installed by the Cheltenham Dairy Company at tho facforj' at Cheltenham. • ? Irs ; ,'I: Wright, missionary evangel--15 !t?f >v ellington, pave an address in the Fending Primitivo Methodist Church on Monday evening. Mrs. Wright will lectnro on similar lines at Rongotea this evening. , "The, Creation" is to be given by the local Choral Society at the .end of the year.

Bartholomew's bush, which was owned by tho Feilding Sash and Door Comnanv, has been sold to Mr. R. Knight, of Feeding, who, it is reported, will fell the bush and uso tho land for grazing purposes. This piece of bush had been under offer for a considerable tiino to the Borough Council as a scenic reserve at £35 an acre.

Arbor Day tree-planting will be carried on this afternoon <n the High School grounds. The committee has decided that tho function shall interfere as littlo as possible with tho school work, in view of tho fact that the several patriotic celebrations held recently took up a good deal of the time of the school. Tho Lytton Street School Committee is in the position of having r.o room for more trees, but tho teacliers, it is stated, will tsKC the opportunity of inculcating the utility and beauty of the subject. greytown! At a vestry meeting held on Monday evening it was decided to have coal gas installed in St. Luke's Church. To raise funds for the Coronation baths, which are to bo constructed here, a fancy dress hockey match is to fako place between the Borough Gaunoillors and others of the committee and the ladies' hockey team (Kia Toa's) on Thursday next. A procession is to b'o held first from tho post offico to the Recreation Ground.

A meeting of the Baths Committee was i 7, 011 Monday night, and it was decidcd that the probable site is to bo near tho Papawai Road, on a section belonein" to the Town Lands Trust. Several sporting residents left here yesterday morning for Lower Valley, on a shooting excursion., CARTERTON.. Mr. V> 7 . 0. Bayliss, of Parkvale, lias been on a visit to the-Taranaki district, and has purchased a young purebred Hoistein bull from Mr. Norton King.. Tho bull is- by De I\ol Inkn Peteye, 'from Nazoo Gem. Both siro.and dam are unbeaten in the show ring, and both were imported from America. Mr. Bayliss is establishing a Holstein herd, and, not long t ago, joined Mr. Buckcridge in importiusf tou heifers from Mr. Lamond, New South Wales. Mr. A. Wil son, who has for a number of years past been an inspector of noxious weeds in the South Wairarapa, has received advice of his transfer to the Taranaki district as a rabbit and noxious weeds inspector. Mr. Wilson will take up his new duties on August 1. Tho following sales of land have been effected in Carterton and district lately by Messrs. Maunsell and Hart:—lsl acres at. Belvedere, owned by Mr. G. Williams; ISO acres at Taratahi, owned by Mr. A. A. Harris, to Messrs. W. and G. Hart; and 705 acres at Matarnwa, owned by Mr. W. Jeffries, to Mr. G. Williams.