PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3175, 28 April 1909, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter). ! Tuesday. MUNICIPAL MATTERS. To-morrow the burgesses of this Borough will be called upon to decide who will be Mayor for the coming year. Both the two gentlemen who are seeking Mayoral honours have previously held office, and as both are putting up a good fight, a keen contest is anticipated. To individualise the respective merits of the eighteen who are contesting the nine vacant seat 3 at the Council table would take up considerable space, and the ratepayers should earnestly consider, before casting their votes, the candidates are conscientiously able to preserve the interests of the residents and safeguard those of the town.

CO-OPERATIVE FREEZING WORKS. The proposed freezing works is now practically assured, as the necessary capital to flnat the enterprise is already promised. Mr M. J. Corrigan, the chairman of the Nelson Fret-zing Works, is at present in this district, and endeavours are bang made to secure hid services u assist in floating the Company. Another meeting will he held in Pahiatua in about a week's tune for the purpose of adopting the prospectus and the articles of the Associatoin. ' Mr J. C. Cooper was to-day nominated for the Presidency of the Pahia-tua-Akitio A. and P. Association. A fancy fair in connection with St. Peter's Church in aid of the vicarage fund, will be opened in the Dril Hall on Tuesday afternoon next by {he Countess of Mountcashel. The band will render selections in the evening cutside the hall.

STOCK MARkKET. Messrs Abratam and Williams, Ltd., helcl their usual sale at their Managhao road yards to-day. Mr W. J. JColliii-", in the absence of Mr Cooper, wielded the hammer and had to submit a heavy yarding of sheep and a medium yarding of cattle. Prices rnrgei as follows:—Fat and forward wethers, 10s lid; 2 tooth wethers, 9s 8d to 10s; fat and forward ewes. 7s 8d; forward store

ewes, 6s 2d to 6s 8d; poor ewes in lamb, 5s 2d to 8a; woolly lambs, 7s sd; shorn lambs, 6s 2d to 6s Bd. Cattle: Fat heifers, £3 15s; forward cows, £2 7s Cd to £2 18s; store cows, 35s to 38s; cows and calves, £3 7s 6d; cows in calf, 30s to 48s; springing heifers, £5 15s; springing cows, £4; 18-month steers, £2 ss; 18-rno'hth heifers in calf, 35a; empty heifers, 275. Messrs Dalgetv and Co., Ltd., report having a good yarding of cattle and a medium yardine of sheep. Prices:—Cattle: 3year steers, £4 5s to £4 10s; 24 to 3-year steers, £3 17s 6d; 2-year steers, £2 17s 6d; 18-month steers, £2 12s 6d; heifers in calf, £2 7s 6d to £2 lis 6d; cows in calf, £3 to £5; fat cows, £3 ss, £3 17s 6d, £4 ss; empty cows, poor 32s 6d to 535; bull, £2 ss. Sheep comprised principally ewes in lamb, poor conditioned bringing 6s, and 8s 3d, 8s 9d, 9s 9d, for better classes; wethers, 2 tooth, forward condition, 10s Bd.

GENERAL. A quiet wedding was celebrated to-day by the Rev. C. H. Isaacson, when Mr Philip Lansdown Hickes, the local Health Inspector, was married to Miss Mary C, H. Snel- J grove, late of the nursing staff of the Pahiatua Hospital. A week's mission is being conducted by the Rev. Father Gilmartin, in the Catholic Church. Services are being held daily at 9 a.m. and 7.30 p.m., and are " being well attended. The mission will be brought to a close by a confirmation service on Sunday afternoon next, to be held by ArchbishoD Redwood. Mr W. J. Greaves, second sdh of Mr W. E. Greaves, of Mangatainoka, was married this afternoon to Miss E. M. Coles, daughter of the late Captain Coles, of England. The annual meeting of householders to elect a School Committee for the ensuing year was held at the new school last evening. The balance sheet showed the credit balance to be £l2 12s 2d. The following were elected on the new Com-mittee-.—Messrs T. Boyd, W. Norrell, K. McLennan, T. Bacon, V. Prober, Ritchie, T. P. Wills. H. Thomas and Rev. Speers, seven be-

ing members of the old Committee. The Rev. Speeds was elected chairman and Mr T. Bacon secretary and treasurer. The Scarborough School election resulted in the following being elected:—Messrs Irving (chairman), McDavitt, Murray, Suisted, Bremmer, Richmond and Wagstaff (secretary). Prior to the election the old Committee met and the secretary, Mr Bluett, stated that the sum of

over £4O had been spent on improvements, etc., during the year, and they had a credit balance in hand of £l2 5s Sd. This amount for a small school like Scarborough must be con--Isidered very good. The Pahiatua Brass Band intend to play in the Main Square on Sunday next should the weather be favourable. The Pahiatua Football Club are

trying to arrange a match against Mangatainoka on the Recreation Ground on Satuday next, while the Mangatainoka Juniors intend to travel to Dannevirke. Mr D. Crewe, one of the candidates for Mayoral honours, addressed a large audience in the Olympic Theatre to-night, in reply to Mr Wilson, who delivered an address on Friday last. The team to represent Mangatainoka against Pahiatua will be picked from the following:—Harvey (5), Lyle, Cresswcll, De Malmanvet, Connor, Sharp, Duncan(2),H. Cowan, Falmer, Pilkington, Powell and Clapham.