PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3080, 30 December 1908, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter). j CRICKET. Tuesday. A strong team of Pahiatua cricketers will journey to Palmerston North to play Manawatu <m. January 22nd. After their defeat on Boxing Day the local team have commenced to practice in real earnest. The team will he selected , from the following players:—Rev. Speers, Wallis, Thomson, WiMiams '(2), Chatwin, Welch (2), Cooper; Tipping, Carpenter, DaWsston. Ashcroft, Millian, Hentley and Brimmington.

f Amongst the many visitors to Pabiatua during the Christmas Holidays was Mr Arnold Mac Janet, solicitor of Irvine, Scotland. Mr Mac Janet is making a tour of the world, and before coming to New 'Zealand spent three months in Australia, and he informed me he was much surprised at the size of Pahiatua, and could hardly credit that 25 years ago, the ground where Pahiatua now stands was all virgin bush. Mr Mac Janet intends to deliver a 'lecture on his travels when he ar.-ives tac< in Scotland, and is making a thorough investigation of the various laws, customs, etc., of this country. Speaking of tne "emigration scheme," he did not believe in sending working men and women out here, unless they had a capital of from two to three jhundred pounds at the 'least, as from what he could learn. New Zealand wanted men who were prepared to take tip a piece of land and work it. At Home the idea was,prevalent that working men only had to come out to Uew Zealandand hundreds of people woald be waiting at the wharf to secure their services. New Zealand was more advanced 'in schemes such as the "old age pension," "penny postage," etc., anddt seemed to him that the Old Country a'lways let the colonies take the initiative in these matters to see if they'were a success or not. • Mr Mac Janet .left for Mas- [ terton yesterday.

Constable Tanner informs me that net a single arrest was inade for drunkenness ! in Pahiatua on Christmas Eve, or Boxing Bay.

The friends of Mr-Dennis McGrath, who is seriously ill in the Hospital, wHI be pleased to hear that he is im-

proving. Considerable interest was taken in the result of the boxing Jchampionship held at Sydney on Boxing Day, both'in Pahiatua and at the Mangatainoka sports ground. Shortly a:ter the result had been made known by means of Wairarapa Age extras, the ■wrestling eompetition'took place, and one of the competitors being a Maori from Hamua, the excited crowd at once nick-named him "Johnson," and "barracked" strongly for him, with the result that he succeeded in throwing Hast year's winner twice out of three throws. Mr Robert Smith, who takes a keen interest in athletics, laft by to-day's express to attend the Atnletic Conference, and also the Caledonian sports at.Dunedin. Mr Sharman (Librarian) informs me that the following'new books have been added to the Public Library for December: — "The Suspicions of Erme'ngarde," by Maxwell Gray; "A Pawn in the Game," by W. H. Fitchett; "The Royal Hoax," by Fred. Wishaw; "The Lure of the ■ £ Mask," by H. MaeGrath; "In the ?'" Potter's House," by Geo. D. Eld"f- redge; "In High Places," by Dolores \/*4'Bacon; "The Song of Hyacinth," by "''|f John Oxenham; "The' Result of an f Accident," by Beatrice Whitby; "Holy Orders," by Marie Corelli; "Lolienstein," by W. ML B. Ferguson; "Hester Lane," by Annie S. Swan; "Bloom o'the Heather," by S. R. Crockett; "The Green Mummy," by Fergus Hume.; The Bell Islers," by Newman; "The Ghost Kings," by H. Rider Haggard. lam in receipt of a handsome almanac from Mr Paget, blacksmith, and a fine wall calendar from Mr W. I. Husband, land agent. Mr Mortimer, who for sometime past has been in charge of the Church of Christ, has received and accepted a call to Ballarat, Australia, and will leave Pahiatua for that district about January 20th. The annual social will be held in the Konin: Hall on New Year's Night. Sports will be held at Nikau on New Year's Day. An urgent telegram was received on Boxing Morning by the Secretary of the Mangatainoka sports from the Premier, Sir J. G. Ward, regretting his inability to he present,' and wishing the Society every s.iccess. A pleasant social was heli in the School-house on Boxing Night. Music was supplied by j residents, and an excellent supper was provided by the ladies. A special word of praise is clue to Mrs P. Reid and family, in whose hands were the managements for the social. One of our local sports, Mr Vincent, was somewhat. unfortunate in nat aecuragg the ' stakes in the last North on Satur-

Mr D. IP- Davidson, the patentee and mater of the patent sk-itti milkweighfag machine, has just consigned, two ef these machines to Melbourne f for the Western Districts factories. 'On Christmas Eve a young n&n earned Harold Thompson, in the •employ of Mr J, D. Piper, had the misfortune to break his collar-bone through a horse falling back on him.

Mr Frederick Grenv'i lie Thompson, of Ballancc, son of Mr Henry Thompson,-late Land Purchase Officer for the Public Works Department, was married at St. Mark's Church, Wellington, this afternoon, to Miss Hinemarama Osborne-Gibbes, second daughter of Sir E. OsborneGibbes,, Bart., Secretary for Education in Mew Zealand. Only the relatives of the contracting parties were present. The Rev. A. M. Johnson, Vicar of St. Mark's, and late of Masterton, "performed the ceremony. There were no bridesmaids. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Mr Harold Thompson. An "At Home" was afterwards held at the residence of the bride's parents in Bidwill street, Wellington.