LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 March 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Yesterday being St Patrick's . Daythere wa.s a big demand for green ribbon in Masterton drapery stores.. There has been quite a cniKe for swimming in Chris-tchurch during the past season, says «, Southern exchange. "What has become of 'the Masterton Beautifyinpti Society.?" is a queytion that lias been fcoard asked fairly often of late. Tradesmen of Masterto*\ . are reminded of the meeting--to be held in Murray's Hall to-night, to deal with the half-holiday and other, questions. Mr J. C. Boddington reports that the rainfall registered as~tiiP " I'ppftr Plain for the;lM"hours preceding 9 a.m. on Saturday, was ly ponits, and on Sunday 39 points tip to 9 a.m. Wild pigs, are said to be fairly numerous ;n the hilly country to the ! west- of. Masterton. A party ' •£ Masterton sportsmen secured a Vm n H bag during last week'end, It k reported that >„ e of the earthquakes at Westpor'o • recently surprised a man in his > jnfch> H e did not remam to get e; vell his c l o thes, but wd outside and it was some time hef.re he •■ could be ' persuaded ■to. enter .the. house again. intends making a great display qjf. t.ie district's products at % >; U ekJnnd Exhibition. While liberVang the Taranaki. people have aTi nrrangcaients well in hand.. The j folk _ from the "cow country" are nothing if mot enterprising.

The usual' meeting of the .Loyal Maste-rton Lodge, Manchester Unity, was hold last night, Bro. H. Evans, N.G., in th© chair, The 'report from the district meeting, held at Levin, was laid before the lodge, and also thu district balance sheet for the year 1912, showing the Masterton Lodge to be in a satisfactory financial position. Four new members were proposed for admission'into the order, and by the full roll of members present, -everything tends towards the present year being one of the best experienced by the lodge. The sum of l()s was voted towards the F.S. Handicap at the Friendly Societies' Picnic, to be held at Solway. - - . An English visitor, writing to the London Daily Mail from New Zealand, says:-^ ; 'A fact which impresses the visitor to New Zealand is the absence of that mad rush after wealth, which. '■■* evident in various parts of the Anglo Saxon world, and more especially in the United States. I venture to say that the average New Zealande'r gets more out of life tha.ni bis fellow subjects elsewhere. Can yon imagine business .men"-in' .Canada- or the United States making their way to the local bowling green at 3 or * 3.30 in the afternoon, and spending'the rest of the day in such pleasant recreation?" A meeting of flic committee of j the,. Wivirarapa Jfhin.ieur Athletic Club was held* in Messrs Gawith and LoganY rooms, Masterton, last nipht. there- being' present .Messrs E."H. Siell (chairman)), B. McKenzie, S. K, Kingston, J. Georgeson, M. B. igguklen, A. Long and W. Dickson. Members .reported that " tickets for', "the ' ThompsonPayne benefit on Tuesday, April Ist, were -selling freely, over 200* having been already disposed of. Mr Georgeson -reported that a good programme of amateur events -had been .placed on the programme of the Caledonian Society's Pipe Band Sports, to be held at. Carterton on Thursday, April 10th.