PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9564, 10 August 1909, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter). ' r Monday. f The first meeting of the local Lodge of Oddfellows at Mangatainoka was held last week, in the Library. As a large number of members of the Order live in Mangatainoka it is intended to hold alternate meetings at Pahiatua and Mangatainoka. Mr S. Coyles, who has been a resident of Makairo for the past twenty years, is to be tendered a farewell social in the Makairo Hall next Friday evening. Mr Cnyles has purchased Mr R. J. Elley's property near Masterton.

A meeting of the Bush Rugby Union was held in the Commercial Hotel on Saturday evening, Mr Vance, President in the chair. A reception committee, consisting of the President and Messrs White, Scott, E. Darley, and J. Swainson, were appointed to meet the Poverty Bay representative team, which will arrive in Pahiatua on the 18th inst, The match against the Bush Union will be played on the local ground on the day following, and the visitors are to be entertained at a dinner after the match. The matter of a player being ordered off the fluid by one of the referees was discussed, and the matter is to be finally settled at a future meeting, when the ©.Tender is to be present. Other ordinary business was transacted.

In the final for the Puketoi Championship, played at Porgaroa on Saturday last, between Rakanui and Pongama, the latter team won by three points (a try scored by Hutchings) to nil. Mr A. Best, of Konini, left for Christchurch to-day. to ride the local horse Tyrannic in the flat race, in Which he is,engaged at the Grand National meeting.

Last evening a very bright star was to be saen in the Western sky, the brilliancy of the star throwing out a light equal to that of a new moon a few days old. On Saturday evening several residents reported seeing a strange light in the same direction, which was probably accounted for by the fact that misty clouds had gathered round this star. Some, however, assert that the object they saw was the mysterious air ship at present supposed to be flying round New Zealand. The annual ball of the Bush Rugby Union will this year be held at Nireaha.

A team from the local Golf Club will journey to Masterton on Wednesday to plfjy a friendly match against a Masterfon team. The Pahiatua Wednesday football team will play the Woodville Juniors on Wednesday next at Woodvill.

The Secretary of the Woodlands Hunt Club informs me that although such a miserable i day for the Steeplechase meeting was experienced on Wednesay last, the Club will have a credit balance to report at the next meeting. Mr W. Inglis Husband, land agent, Pahiatua, reports the sales of the following properties:—Two hundred acres river flats at Nireaha, to Mr Woodley; 80 acres at Nireaha, to Mr W. Geange; 100 acre* at Waimero, to Mr W. Kerr; house and half-acre in Pahiatua, to Mr Horax; one acre in Main street, Pahiatua, to Mr W. C. Sayera; and in conjunction with Messrs C. C. Rosa and Co, Masterton, feur dwelling, houses in Mortimer Terrace, Wellington, to Mr Gosnell; also 150 acres dairy farm in Clareville, to Mr D. Crewe. Mr Husband reports that there are good enquiries for dairy farms, and as the money market is daily getting better those having properties to dispose off should send in particulars at once so as to get them advertised through the medium of his land guides, the next issue will be in the .printer's hards next week.