PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3102, 27 January 1909, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter). Tuesday. Mr E. B. Ross, M.P., paid a visit to Pahiatua yesterday. Yesterday morning heavy rain fell. The weather has since cleared up, and we are enjoying tine weather. The country between Pahiatua and Palmerston North is looking better than it has for years past before. A Palmerston North farmer informed me that on the rich llats outside that town, there was fully six inches growth of grass since the New Year,., and the dairy farmers were having a good season. The country is also looking well south of Pahiatua, and harvesting along the main road between Pahiatua and Opaki is in full swing. The good prices obtained .for wool at the Dunedin wool sales was the general theme of conversation this morning both amongst the local storekeepers and the sheep farmers. Owing to the recent wet weatn'H' a lot of the smaller sheds have only just finished, and are in hopes uf obtaining the good prices that ruled at JDunedin. A large number of sportsmen arrived in Pahiatua to-day for the races on Wednesday, and Thursday. The committer have everything in j tip-top order, and should the weather remain as it is to-day, the Club should have a record meeting. The tenders of Jensen and Petersen, of Palmerston North, were accepted by the Pahiatua County Council on Saturday last for (1) 320 chains river-bed metalling MakuriGorge road; and (2) 80 chains limestone metalling on same road, both contracts being near Makuri township. The tender of A. Larsen, of Pahiatua,was accepted for re-forming and metalling Ballance Valley road (515£ chains). In another column Mr C. Bluett notifies his pupils that he will resume music teaching on Monday next. Mr E. Eastwood, of Pahiatua, left for Wellington this afternoon in his motor-car to bring back to this district a recently well-known wedding couple. "Carlton'i Mysteries" Company , played to a good house last evening in the Olympic Theatre, and will give a performance to-night (Wednesday). Being race night a large house is expected, a'-d people wishing to secure a comfortable seat should arrive early at the Hall. The entertainment ij a particularly meritorious one, and the Company, under the direction of Mr Bert Will Munns, have received good houses everywhere they ha"e played. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mr W. P. James, S.M., two Chinese were charged with having snrjked and with having been in possession of opium. One of tha defendants, for having upium in his possession, was finsd £25, and the other for smoking opium was fined £2 and costs. Great interest is being evinced amongst the local bowlers in the forthcoming competition for the handsome trophy donated by the President, Mr G. A. Burgess. As several of the younger placers are now taking a very keen interest in the game it is very hard to pick the winner. It is pleasing to note that several of our local tennis players were successful at the Dannev.irke Tournament. The Misses Bolton and Hughes won the Ladies' Handicap Doubles, and the Combined Championship Doubles was won by Miss R. Hughes and Mr Swainson. WOODVILLE NOTES. The funeral of the late Mr R. E. Grinlinton, which took place on Friday last, was very largely attended, the Masons, Oddfellows, Fire Brigade and Borough Council, all b a ing well represented. A great number of picnic partie3 are to be seen at the Manawatu Gorge every holiday. The ordinary meeting of Court Woodville, A.0.F., was heid on Tuesday evening, Bro. Smith presiding. There wa3 a good attendance of members, and one new member was proposed. Mr A. Laing, of the Masonic Hotel, Woodville, has just had the hotel ■ re-painted and renovated throughout. There is every indication that the forthcoming Show of the Bush Dis-

tricts A. and P. Association will be the most successful yet held. Entries are coming in freely, and some exceli i lent stock will be exhibited. Mr J. H. Escott, the popular secretary, has all the arrangements well in hand, and is leaving no stone unturned to make this year's Show a record one.^ STOCK MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report on their furtnightly stock sale to-day as followsWe offered a full yarding of sheep, embracing all classes. For all sound good ziass ewes, wethers, and forward rape lambs, bidding was brisk throughout, all such lines finding a ready market, but for aged culled ewes and weak lambs there was little demand. Generally speaking the tone of the sheep market was very firm. In cattle, our entries were somewhat limited. Good useful store bullocks, or young steers, were in good enquiry, and sold at sound rates a clearance being effected. Best ewes made frorri 10s lOd to 12s, others 8s 9d to 10s fid, culls 4s to 6s, best shorn rape lambs 9s Id, stores, 7s to 7s 10J, culls 4s to 5s 4d, 2tooth wethers 10s 6d tolls; 3-year steers, light, £4 16a; store cows, 40s; weaners, 15s. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report as follows on the Pahiatua Farmers' Association sale to-day: —We had a fair yarding of sheep and full yarding of cattle ; prices were not so high as previous sales, catttle and sheep being easier. We quote: Good 4 tooth wethers 12s, 2 tooth 10s 6d to 10s lOd, rape lambs 9s 3d to 9s 8d (in the wool), 2 tooth ewes 12s 2d, shorn lambs 9s 9d to 10s, culls 5s to 6s, f.m. ewes 8s 6d to 9s, 4-year steers £4 15s to £4 17s 6d, 3-year steers £4, £4 2s 6d to £4 10s, 2|-year steers £3, 18months £2 5s to £2 13s, forward cows and heifers £2 16s, bulls £2, springing heifers £3 10s.