TE WHARAU.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10093, 15 September 1910, Page 5

TE WHARAU.

During the past,week or two the weather has been splendid, and the , stock, especially lambs, are looking very well, while the general appearance of the country is greatly improved. The Te Wharau Rifle Club held their first practice shoot Saturday, under unfavourable weather conditions. There was a fair muster of members. The motor "fiend" may be fairly said to have reached even remote Te Wharau, as was evidenced by results the other evening, when a motor driven by a well-known resident of the district flashed through the township, leaving in its trail a dying fowl. N Mr F. C. H. Cotter, with his usual enterprise, has just had installed in his new building a new. "Sunlight.*' improved acetylene gas plant, which is the first of its kind in the district. Several settlers in the district have also tgiven orders 1 tc-* have, planets' -installed afc once ill' •holding a ball, in" the Kaiwhata Hall, ' about-the end of this month,; which; promises to bV the V.social event of -the year-Hr-this- district.;/" ~ "1 - Mr Jones, architect, of Masterton, who has been here for a fewdays inspecting work just completed,, returned to town yesterday. Miss McGregor, of Wanganui, is. at present visiting at "Hikorangi." Mr T. Ross, of Flat Point, whohas been spending a short holiday ia Wellington, returned home to-day..