MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1322, 28 December 1911, Page 3

MASTERTON NOTES.

HON. T. MACKENZIE COY

(B? Teleeraph.-SDflcial Correspondent.) Masterton, December 27. v « f some " lter€St t0 local and visiting Natives was celebrated on Christwhen Hinewhakaarahia, daughter of Oleta Auaru, was married to ifaniera a well-known young i\«ti TC , o f Dannevirke flic ceremony was performed at the glican Church by the Kdv. Teri I'aerah Several hundred guests were afteSs en 'M rtil r!! e ' £' il WMldin = breakfast. . { le , U , l , rlst ™ 3 festival, which is bci™ held at the Te Ore Ore Jlaori na ! being a temled by Natives from Hawke S Bα} Uarlborougli, Wangimui, Uotorua and elsewhm-. Although" the VestivTis ot a. .senii-relignous nature, . sports are bemg mdu ged in, and the political situation is to be discussed • The Frieudly Societies' picnic at PWon Bush, and a number of' kcal piS were abandoned ou account of the threat cning weather on Bosin- Dar Dairv iarmers in the Forty-Jlile Bush complain that, iu consequence of the severe weather, their milk cheques are Tarf yea? S ° Subsbmtial ™ ll?ey were The first wedding celebrated in the new AnriiMn Church at Kuripuni took p"a?e yesterday, when Mr. AVi!li am jS? /awlon was united to -Miss Alice xj. amis.- Ihc Kev H. Watson presented he noivly-married couple with a Bible in honour of the occasion. A successful sports meeting was held at Mangatainoka on Boxing Day. A number tertoT W ° re Pr€SOllt fro,u Ma " . Mr. T. Hutchison, S.M.. of Oamani district? 8 " , ° n " T ' sit t0 friends in "•» Owing to the political situation bein* somewhat mixed, the movement in favour of estabhslnug an Agricultural H 4 School in the M airarapa has been temporarily hung up. The Hon. T. Mackenzie Acting-Minister for Education, was asked to receive a deputation before tho elect ions, but expressed "regret at his ina Mhty to do so." Since tie election,! he has given no indication of a desire to be dcputationised." ■