MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1288, 17 November 1911, Page 3

MASTERTON NOTES.

p (From Oar Special Correspondent.) Maslerton, November 16". Professor Kirk, of Victoria Collego, will deliver a lecture on Saturday under the auspices of the W.iirarupa branch of Ilio Now Zealand Teachers' Institute. His subject is "Heredity."

Mr. John Savage has withdrawn from tho contest for the Tc Whiti riding of the Masterton County, and Mr. A. .1. I'ercy, being the only other candidate, has been declared elected.

Mr. W. Slaughter, grand secretary of thn Wellington I'luniber.s' Union, has been in Mivstcrton this week, a.nd has formed u brand; of the. union for the Wairarapa district.

Tho new bacon factory at tho Watngawa I'rnezinj; Works will be rmdy for opening in the- courso of a few days! Tho directors arc. experiencing some difliculty in securing Mm services of a. milablo bacon-curor.

will not. be general on East Coast .stations this year, owiug to Iho lambing season having born later than ij-.ial."

There, i= an abundance nf gras-s in the Masle-rlon district just, now, and the recent rains have .Uitnuliited (he of the cereal crops. A. tmccesfful garden parly was held tin's .iftoraooj-i ;il Ihe residence of Mr. James Elliott, in L'nlumbn. Bond, to raise funds to liquidate, thn debt on the rooms of tlio Methodist Young Men's Society.

Mr. Harry Mayo, of Nelson, has been engaged a> conductor of the Masrcrlon .Municipal Brass Band. Scrsc-nnt X. MilJ.rr, who has bwn spending a fortnight's furlough in tho south, resumes dutv to-morrow.

Two deaths of well-known residents occurred here to-day. Mr. L. Prentice, eld-<-i=t son of Mr. j. ]'. Prentice, died at tlio age of twenty-five, and Mrs. Wyetli, v.ife of Mr. fieorpi. Wyotli, one of the earliest settlers, 'died at the age of scvi'iitv.