CARTERTON NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3166, 17 April 1909, Page 5

CARTERTON NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter.) Friday. Mr S. Jensen, of Waihakeke, who' has been competing at the New Zealand Gun Club's Championship meeting, at Amberley, returned home this morning. Mr Jensen was not successful in winning the championship, but went very close to it. He, however, divided the prize in the Amberley match. The annual report of the Public Library is as follows —"Your committee beg to report that during the past year the interest in the Library has been maintained and the standard of the reading room kept up. The balance-sheet shows a credit balance of £4O 15s, which sum, inj view of fairly heavy expenditure during the year is deemed satisfactory. A supply of books ordered from the "Times" Book Club, duly came to hand, and proved of excellent value. Annual subsidies are gartefully acknowledged from the Carterton Borough Council, and the Wairarapa South County Council, and supplies of magazines and newspapers from subscribers and friends, In November last Miss E. M. Roydhouse resigned her position as Librarian, and the office was filled by Mr A. Peclen, who now resides on the premises. The committee rerget that the roll number of subscribers is not much larger. When the small amount of the annual subscription, and the advantages the institution offers are considered, it is difficult to understand why so few avail themselves of it. —W. Moore, chairman."

There was a very representative gathering of members of the Wairararapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society, and of the Taratahi-C'arterton Racing Club at the complimentary social tendered in the tea pavilion on the Showgrounds* 1 this evening, to Mr G. W. Deller, to mark the occasion of his departure on a trip to England. Mr H. 53, Banny, the President of the Pastoral Society, occupied the chair, and in the course of the evening presented: the guest with a handsome gold watch, suitably inscribed, and a gold Albert and -sovereign case from the ; Taratahi-Carterton Racing Club. I*6 front of the watch, and also the reign case bore the recipient's initials, and ar. inscription on the watch read: "Presented to Mr G. WJ Deller by the Wairarapa and Eaet Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society, April 16th, 1909." A medal attached to the, Albert was similarly inscribed. Mr Deller suitably, acknowledged gifts. A sitting of the Magistrate's Couit was held to-day, before Mr C. C. GiaJ ham, S.M. Before commencing the business, Mr Coleman Phillips, : S the senior member of the Bar, addressed a few words of welcome to the Magistrate, who is acting in tie place of Mr W. P. James, while he is on holiday. Judgment by dc 3 fault was given in a number of debt cases, and in a judgment summons case, Mrs A. L. Whyte v. W. J. Beard, defendant was ordered to pay the balance due, £1 19s 4d f within a fortnight, in default seven days' imprisonment. A. Patterson claimed £5 from Edward Buckeridge, price of a medical chest, which defendant was alleged to have ordered, and refused to take delivery of. Defendant denied having signed any order with an agent for the chest, and after hearing evidence counsel for plaintiff intimated that he was prepared to accept a nonsuit, which was accordiugly entered up with costs £2 16s. Last evening the of Mr G. W. Deller held a social evening to mark the occasion of the departure of their employer on a trip to England. During the proceedings, Mr James Gorman, as the oldest employee, asked Mr Deller's acceptanse for himself of a handsome case of pipes, and silver-mounted ebony walking stick, and for Mrs Deller of a silver-mounted hand purse. The articles were engraved, and bore the inscription, "Presented to Mr G. W. Deller by his present and past em ployees, on his departure for England, April, 1909." Mr Deller. on behalf of himself and Mrs Deller suitably replied.