PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3134, 10 March 1909, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter). Tuesday. The locally-owned racehorse Papatawa, who badly injured himself last spring, is now quite recovered, and will probably be put into training shortly. The deputation from the County Council and Scarborough residents had a worthy champion in Cr D. P. Davidson, ac the Borough Council meeting, last evening. In seconding Cr Wilson's motion to grant onethir r J of the extra £BI required for this work, Cr Davidson stated that \l wa3 very inconvenient the railway station being so far away from the town, but seeing this was so, the only thing to do was to make the road and footpath as good as possible, so as to allow people to go to and from the station in the least possible tim ?. One Councillor remarked'to tha fie nut at ion that the country people would benefit by the road, arid footpath being made goo'd, whereupon Mr Hodgins (chairman of the County Council) said that it was the d'aily traffic of the Borough that made the road in the state that it was. Mr Brechin, of Scarborough, seated that without i'.ar '.r con uui c

tion where 0112 Sea re"! dent would uss the footpath twenty people from the Borough would travel on il. There is not a great deal of interest being taken in the Licensing Committee electior, which is being held to-day, but a fair number of votes will probably be recorded at the Pahiatua Booth as there is a large crowd of country people in to the stock sale tc-da/, which will most likely be the record sale of the season as far as the number of stock for sale is concerned. The continued dry weather is starting to bring down the milk supply at, the local factory, but the season so far has been a spkndid one for dairy farmers. The tests at the various factories are steadily rising. It is generally considered that today is the hottest day that has been experi3n:ed this season, and it makes the twentieth day without rain. The pasturss are naturally beginning to look brown, but nothing in comparison with other districts. So far this district lias nnt been„troubl ;1 d much with bush fire 3. Thi funeral of the late Mrs Mitchell will take place at 2.15 p.m. to-morrow (Wednesday). The annual meeting of the Mangatainoka Foitball Club will ba held on Thursday night. STOCK MARK IT. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Lti., held tlm'r fortnightly sale in the P.F.A. yards to-day. They rap' rt a large yarding of sheep and medium yarding of cattle. There was a good attendance of buyers from all parts uf the country. Competition throughout was keen, and prices were on a par with previous sales. They quote: —Twotooth ewes, 12s Gd to 14s; small 2tooth ewes, to 10s 6d; 4 and 6-tooth ewes, 13s to 15s; 2 and 4-tooth wethers. 10s 3d; woolly lambs, to 9s 9d; medium lambs, 8s to 8s 6d; aged ewes, 6s 3d to 7s 9d; cull ewes, 5s 6d; rams, Romney 2gns, Lincoln ISgns. Cattle: Forward cows, 50s; springing cows, 455. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., had a extra big yarding of sheep, 8,000 sheep being brought into the yards, the bulk of them changing hands at prices on a par with recent sales.