LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10282, 10 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

I There are at present eighteen in- | mates in the Masterton Public Hospital at Lansdowne. The latest return from the Worksop dredge is 82ozs. ldwt for 128 hours' working. , The monl hly meeting of the Masterton County Council is to be held tomorrow afternoon. A Hockey Association has been formed in Eketahuna, with Mr L. B. Bradstock as President. The Woodlands Hunt Club is giving £92 in stakes at its steeplechase meeting to be held on the Pahiatna racecourse on August 2nd. The Ballance Co-operative Dairy Company is paying its suppliers Is per pound for butter-fat during the month of June. i A young man was arrested in Masterton on Saturday night on a charge of being drunk and using "language." ' A Masterton bottle-gatherer states that he has collected 2100 dozen bottles in Masterton during the last two years. Mr McNaught, a wool-classing expert, is to deliver an address under the auspices of the Eketahuna brjan©h>of the Farmers' Unionj>n^lf*lsth. The agricultural" returns show that there are 5893 acres in grain and JJJjber and 4747 acres in green and root crops in the Masterton County. | A number of the competitors at the | Masterton Musical and Elocutionary Competitions are expect**? to arrive this evening. Twenty degrees of frost were experienced in Mar-etown (Southland) on Monday night of last week, and from eight to tea in Arrowtown. 74 men have beet. sentenced to death and 47.executed ; while of ten women sentenced none suffered the extreme j penalty. A Masterton lady, writing to a friend in Palmerston, says:—"There is a good deal of excitement over the licensing question. I understand there is no probability of the bars ever being reopened in Masterton, and it is generally thought that South Wairarapa will be 'dry' also after next election."—Standard. the assete of the Masterton A. and P. Association now total £12,746 9s | 2d. This is made up as follows : I Sol way land, £4043 15s 2d; improvements, £7600; plant and office furnij ture, £205; outstanding, £297 14s. | The liability to the bank totals £5703 i 6s 9d, which leaves a surplus of assets over liabilities of £6971 12s sd. At the last show of the Masterton A. and P. Association, Messrs S. R Lancaster and W. Rayner tied for the Quibell Cup for most points in purebred sheep. At Saturday's meeting of the Association, it was decided that the names of both competitors be placed upon the cup, and that each com pet-itor have the full winning points allotted him. It was decided that in the meantime, the trophy remain in the possession of the Association