EKETAHUNA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7957, 7 February 1906, Page 3

EKETAHUNA NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondent)

EKETAHUinA, February 6. The annual picuic in connection with the Nireaba Public School ia to be held on Friday afternoon. The day's recreation will ba wound up by a dance in the evening. A quiet wedding took place .at Mongorongo to-day, when Mr Jorgan Albrechtsen was united in matrimony to Caroline, second daughter of Mr Job Bassett. A carpenter named John McKenzie was fined £2 and costs at the Magistrate's Court, yesterday, for insulting a lodgioghouse keeper named, C. Cbristensen. Two youths, named F. H. Brown and JL. Naylor, were charged before two J's.P., this morning, with the theft Jof goods to the value of £3 3s from a Syrian hawker. It was admitted that the articles were taken for a "lark," an 3 the information was dismissed. Mr Selby, clerk of the course to the Auckland Racing Club, has been on a uhort visit to hiß friends in Eketahuna. Mr Selny at one tithe carried on business here. At a meeting of the Eketahuna School Committee, held last evening, the name of Mies M. N. Collins, of Maaterton, was approved of the five names submitted from the Education Board for a pupil tenchership. The Eketahuna Mrunted Rifles go into camp on Saturday next. A considerable portion of the potato crop of this district is this season affected with blight.