DISTRICT NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10664, 20 June 1912, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS

[From Our Own Correspondent.)

ALFREDTON. Although .we have arrived at tha period when the sua has the leas warmth in its rays, 'still the farmer* are quite satisfied with tJhe mildness of It he ,-seatsWu, so (far. We* have hat sere.ra'l frosts; still ,they were not sevcire enough to retard the growth oi feed altogether. A green, tinge mwj yet hi l discerned oi'ecpiiig over a paddock <<r igrasa, 'which indicates grow tli, if the stock a.re .removed foi a few d'ave.

Hoggcos are doing iranarkaiWy well rijv'it through tho dij-fq-'ict, although .sevciii.il (farmers had im : ,sgi:vin,gs in the ; .aj:-cr piji'.i ct" the aooiMnm. -Other classes 'of tCcck .are doing i&iimhwly. Lair.,bit:g will oar/rneuce rrnuch earlier this year than hat, and 1 have r.o hesitation in .pr'ctixi'.ir.ig a lambing equal to iany ,tha.t .we have had during tlie past five years. The grass g'nuib, w'hicih iplayed tfach havoc thniaughout the diiaia-ict la&'fc 'WiirJkir, ia ria-t 'so apparent this year, although oni several hillsides their unwcCcome pr'esemce is noticeable. This being .leap year, the Alfred-ton liad-ios' have thought fit to hold their annual h-a/U irs advance of the bachelors, -whose ira-n'ks, by the way, have not .received aoiy material weaki&iirmg for several years. Th& energy which the Ladies' Ball Chmnnotfoe .are puiitang'into the prepara- | tiorjs for the evenibful 28th are im-ime-a'se. Judging by tlie amou-tft of Idccora'tions, miiatletoe, etc., which .the Jadi,e« .aire looking out for, several dismal firesides aire Jikely -to be ibrighten;ed to an appreciable extent at .no distant. date. r

The igale which raged here tfor a few hours last Sunday was the heaviest ever remembered' in the district. iWith the exception of several! shed roofs and a few fences being displaced, little damage .was done.

Our main road is ini a better condition 1 this winter than over it has been before. The less important roads are, with a few ailso in good tfrdelr. • TENUI. Football ,k at (present in full swing In this difjliriit. "Whakatufci defeated . 'Tenui by 3 .points to nil. A .try was ! sooaiod 'dy J. O'lviUlO, ibut J. Bairty failed to add ,the major points. Mr 51.. Barton refereed in. his usual capable manncir. CarsweHs also defeated Ta'ueru .by 3 points to nil, a try scored by W. Perkins. Joe Watson made a good but unsucoesafiull attempt at igoal. Mir Curtis (refereed, but as no iwhfetie was available, Mr R. Molvor Icindly lent his chamter, which proved a< very good suibdtibute. i The Tenui Boxing Club has again opened .under t'he -able control of Mr Steading'. . 1 A very enjoyable evonmg was .spent at the Tenui Hotel on Monday even- j ;in'g last, the occasion; .being a birth- j •day party given by Air and Mrs j BirowH in honour of their son Pat's; twenity-first birthday. After ,tea the , .guests .adjttaned 'to ilhe ,sitting worn, where a number of' songs and r'eci- j .tat'ions were given by thoye present.