PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10013, 8 April 1910, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

' Own Correspondent. Thursday. The rinking season opened here last night. There was a very good attendance considering the wildness of 3 the weather. A club is to be formed ' on similar lines to the one which was i so popular last year. j ' Mr Ted Sullivan, of this town, j ! travelling to attend the funeral i 1 of his sister-in-law at Timaru, re- j ceived the sad news of the death of [ his brother, Mr James Sulliva, of ' Timaru. The sympathy of his many ! friends will be extended to him on ! his double bereavement. | A meeting of the Scarborough I School Committee was held in the I schoolroom last night. The secretary ( of the Education Board forwarded the J application and testimonials ot Mr j John Bringans, the selected candi- ! date for the position of headmaster ! in place of Mr J. J. Malcolm, promoted to Mitchelltown. The committee approved of the Board's choice. The endeavour to form an Amateur ] Dramatic Club i 3 meeting with i hearty support Several of the leading citizens are taking a keen interest in the matter, and there being I several on the (own who have taken | leading parts in performances in the i past, there is every hope in anticipates the formation of a very strong - club. ' B.v Telegraph—Special to Age. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report hav- ] ing held their opening sale in j theiV new yard at Waimiro to-day:— •, We had a good yarding of sheep and c cattle. Ihere was also a large at- j ten lance of fanners and buyers from districts far am) near. Compe- I tition was real good throughout, and " resulted in a complete clearance of J J all stock with , one exception, that t being a pen of weaner calves. £ Prices stiowed an upward tendency, s and run as follows: —Wethers, small, ' I Q 9a sd; other wethers, 12s sd, 12s rj ?d, I2s lOd to 13s 6d; s.m. ewes, a 5s 7d, 7s 7d to 8s 9d; lambs, small, 1 , t jV 4spother lambs, to 6s 3d; rams, j SI 15s to 275. Cattle: Weaners, 24s j 7 . p to 29s 6d; store cows, 48s to 61s; jp ( 2-year steers £4 15s 6d; fat cows, j d £3 16s; heifers in alf, £3 ss; bulls, 355, q f