PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3072, 17 December 1908, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Resident 'Reporter.) WEDNESDAY. " PAHIATUA RACING CLUB. The Pahiatua racecourse is at present in excellent condition, it having , l>een top-dressed in the spring. During the winter the whole of the Inside of the course was stumped, and the secretary informs me that half of it has been ploughed and sown with rape. No trouble is being spared to make the course one to be proud ©f, and it is anticipated that the meeting in January next will be the best on record. ACCIDENT TO A LOCAL RESIDENT. A man named Dennis McGrath, for many years employed at the Club Hotel, Pahiatua, met with a severe accident at 11.30 o clock y6s- j terday morning. It appears that the unlortunate man had erysipelas in the face, which made him delirious, and getting out of his bed, with hat, trousers and singlet on, he wandered alung the roof of the building and fell on to an adjoining roof, a drop of about twelve feet, breaking the pelvic bone et the hip. Firrit aid was by Constable Tanner and Messrs Brechin and Gore, and with considerable difficulty McGrath was taken from the roof of the building and conveyed to the Pahiatua Hospital, where he was attended by Dr Dawson, and is doing as well as can be expected in the circumstances. STOCK MARKET.

Messrs Abraham and Williams, Xitd.. report on their Pahiatua Farmers* Association sale as follows: — There was a poor yarding ot sheep and a good yarding of cattle. We quote: Mixed hoggets, 9s lOd to 10s; cull du. 6s 6d; cattle, 2\ year steers, £2 lis to £2 15s; 3 year steers, £3 lis to £4; fat and forward bullocks, £5 to £5 7s; 2i year speyed heifers, £2 2s; yearling steers, 265; 2 year old heifsrs, running with bull, £2 3s; springing heifers, £3 lis; empty cows, forward condition, £2 6s to £2 12s 6d; store ■cows, 80s to 395; speyed cows, £2; 3 year bulls, £3. The New, Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report having held their fortnightly sale in their Pahiatua yards on Tuesday, when they offered a fair yarding of cattle, no sheep doming forward. They quote: Fat cows, to £4; springing cows, £3 10s to £4; springing heifers, £3 10s to £4; 2year steers, to 575; yearling steers, 33s to 40s; store cows, £2 5s to £2 10s; mixed yearlings, to 255.

DIXON BOWLING CUP. A match for the Dixon Bowling Cup will be played at Dannevirke on January 6th, between the Palmerston North and Dannevirke teams. The Pahiatua Club have put in a challenge to play the winners. Mr George Yule, who is seriously 111 at New Plymouth, has taken a turn for the better, and there is now every hope of his recovery. A light warm rain fell yesterday afternoon, and was the best growing rain we have had for some time. There was a very large number of country residents in town yesterday, all with beaming countenances, the cause being the monthly pay day of the Ballance Co-operative Dairy Company. ,The Hukanui Bazaar Committee have decided to postpone the baazar from Friday next until the early part of February, owing to the residents being too busy with dairying and general haymaking, etc., to give the bazaar proper attention. A meeting of the young ladies' branch of the Y.W.C.A. was held in St. Paul's- Sunday Schoolroom on Monday evening, and it wa£ decided to work strenuously in order to put the branch on a sound footing as soon as the holidays were over. The Tennis Tourninent at the District High School Courts had to be postponed on account of the rain after two games had been played.

' tMr D. Crewe (Mayor), ot Pahiatua, contemplates taking a trip to the Old Country in March next, and it is his intention cf placing his well-known residence, the "Grange," in the market at an early date. Mr Crewe has, in the past, always placed his beautiful grounds at the disposal of the local authorities for hospital fetes, etc. When Mr J. D. C. Crewe was in England recently, he had the privilege of inspecting that fine old horse, "Carbine," the Australasian champion of a few years back. "Carbine," vJtio is now 22 years old, is kept at Welbeck on one of the Duke of Portland's estates, and Mr Crewe states that "Old Jack" is looking in tiptop condition, and hia £ tables are fitted up with everything of the very best. He is looked after like a human being. Mr G Hawley-Drew was the only candidate nominated for the position of Borough Councillor, vice Mr Baucke (resigned). At the fortnightly meeting of Court Pahiatua, A.0.F., helJ on Tuesday evening, two new members were initiated, and nominations were taken for the position ot officers for the enauin? alx months. A report of

the business done by the Friendly j Societies' Council, held in Wellington recently, was read and discussed, and a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the delegates (Bros. Gore and Gelderd) for their report. A full rehearsal of the cantata, "Bethelem," was held in St. Paul's Church last evening. Forty parsons will take part in the performance, and there will be a first-class orchestra, under the leadership of Mr C. Bluett. Mr C. Mill has charge of the performers, and Mr Clough will preside at the organ. A record gathering is anticipated on Friday evening.

A large portion of what is commonly known as the Palmerston track road at Ballance is about to be metalled by the successful tenderer, Mr H. Shanks.

The Mangatainoka Public School { picnic will be held to-morrow (Thursday) should the weather prove favourable. Mr A. Pringle, who has taken over the lease of Mrs Moncrieff's building (next to Clark and Maniold's), has beenbusy unpacking a fine line of new furniture for the Christmas season. The stock comprises rattan and bamboo ware, duchesse - chests, sideboards, brass rail bedsteads, tables of all sizes, and various other articles useful in the furnishing line. Although Mr Pringle has only recently started in business here, the taking over of larger and more centrally situated premises is a sure sign that Mr Pringle is doing well and pleasing the general public. A visit to his premises will satisfy the most sanguine that he has a really firstclass display. I have just inspected a sample of boot repairing, effected by Messrs F. Bentley and Co. The work is neat and well done, and the firm are making a speciality of repairing. At the social to be tendered to Mr J. C. Cooper, in the Drill Hall tonight (Thursday), a number of items will be given by vocalists quite new to Pahiatua. I understand a dance will be held at the close of the social.