MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1548, 18 September 1912, Page 4

MASTERTON NOTES.

-. V .-. - ■ (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) ■ "M'astcrftn.'Septe'mber 1". .Mffsfertoif'wa's yisifed atatf eafly- hour fliis jn'ornilliS' by' a thunderstorm- of .eidep'tional violence'. A- wsterly. wind blew with hurricane force',- and the lightning flashes illuaiiriated; the 'frhc-le wuntryside. The crashes" of- flju'u'def were* it time's' , exc'rtdihgly loud,; anb; residents-' were' thTOwtf irifo- a state of consternation".- Thestorm which lested-, for about an hour, has dono considerable'.damage to orchards and- gai'deiisi and in ; Several tfaf ts fences hav'o heeti- razed to the gronnd. A-etrong westerly' gale" has coititiued fo blow thvougn'ont' the mor'mii.»: '. ■ - . ■ . .The-grass-gMjB : has again mide its. kppesraifce' in this district, .and- is- working hnyo'c. in- the pastures and lawns'.

Tbtf MtfsWtbri Amateur Theatrical- Society;, vhieh" javc.a , successful- performance of- tKe opera "H.Jf.S. pinafore" iri tho Town' Hall last" >reeky intends reproducing' the. op'eFa- at Gr-eytotfnin- a few'day's time.

,Tlic tole'pbonff System is" beitfg consider--ably exteride'd. in this district, and. many private cbrinecfio'tis have , recently' been made' , with country homesteads.

Lambing" is rid\V well advanced. Old ' settlers' aver that the percentage will this , year constjfutoi a record. Tho' tiventyififst annual report of the Wair'arajm Farmers' Cooperative As«ociatioif, tfhich has Hist been published, shows a net'-profit for the year , of JJi:t,23B 19s. 1(1. , Th" directors recommend the pnyiiient of a dividend of 0 per cent, and a'bonus of ,'t per cent, on paid-up capital'; a bonus to shareholders oii-pnridktsesflf !1 per cent.; ii boilu-i to omulove**! on salaries of :t pf-r cent.; and a bClius to manager; and heiuls ■■ of depai'tminfe After -paying these dividpiuts and bonuses, together with iner.me trii',- etc.,- the association frill carry forward a sum of Jc"o% to the , profit , and loss account. . .; „..'...

The- , iN'ufrtcia Milk Coitipriinv Ltd' of Wellington,• hare , be Sri aptlblnfcil purveyor's of milk,- etc.,- to , his Elcellefcey the Governor.".. Messrs. G-nalteiy Dyke , .?, ami Co. hivve b?en instrncteil bv Wliiteoinbe and Tomb*. Ltd.. to linlil an auction lire snle oil rridii.v. September 20. at 10 a.m.. at CC lC<')it Tfrra'oe. I'liiticulms- Hjijienr elfo'where. ;