MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2363, 20 January 1915, Page 6

MASTERTON NOTES.

j. • The twentieth ■ annual I Wairarapa lawn tennis championship and handicap tournament commences here on Thursday, and will be continued until Saturday. Excellent entries liave been received, among the competitors being .such well-known players as G. Ollivier and G. G. Aitken (Christchurch), and F. M. B. Fisher (Wellington). The courts are in splendid order. Between fifty and sixty mounted and artillery horses have been purchased here by officers of the Agricultural Department. They are, generally speaking, a very good lot. Horses /have been offering much more freely since the price of chaff lias , gone up. One or two incipient grass fires have oocurred in the neighbourhood of Mas-tert-on during, the last few days, but little damage has been done. Two distinct earthquake shocks were experienced in Masterton between 12 and 1 o'clock on Tuesday morning. A special meeting of the Masterton Trust Lands Trust is to lie held on Thursday evening, to consider a proposal to make-a grant for the supply of free school books to the various schools in the Small Farm lilook. Several Wairarapa breeders were represented at tile Poverty Bay ram fair last week, ami secured satisfactory prices for their ranis.