MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1663, 1 February 1913, Page 6

MASTERTON NOTES.

(From Onx* SpcclaJ Correspondents.) Masterton, January '31. ' No bankruptcies havo been recorded in the 'Wairarapa during tho' month of January.. , ■ - Tho combined Sunday Schools of Knox and Lansdowno Presbyterian' Churches held a picnio on Mr. It. Johnston's farm at Homebush yesterday. The weather .was fine,, and the attendance very large. A rather interesting case wa3 heard in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, when Tawhia, To Tau, chairman of tlio Eongokokako Maori Council, sought to recover from Kahu Piripia a sum of ,£G, the amount of fines imposed by, tho Kohunui Village Committee for breaches of* bylaws of the Maori Counoil, Tor the defence it _ Wkls. alleged that the Maori Council had neglected to define tho limits of tho Kohunui pa, and have tlicm approved by the Governor. The plaintiff was consequently non-suited. . A three-mile senior handicap, run in connection with ithe Masterton Cycling Club last evening, -was won by C. Valler, with V., Bookman seoond. ' A one-milo junior handicap was won by IV Ackerman.

', Fourteen old. age pensions were renewed, and two granted in Masterton during the month of January.

The death occurred yesterday, at the ago of seventy-six years, of Mr. George father of Mrs. J. W: Blaokman,' of -this town.

' A successful garden, party , was held on the Solway Show Ground yesterday, in connection with the Kuripuni, Methodist Bible-class.