CARTERTON

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 276, 29 September 1879, Page 2

CARTERTON

♦ 1 (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ( September 27. ( There has been little or nothing to report 1 from our midst this week. The monthly a inspection parade of the Volunteer corps i took place on Tuesday, when Captain J Snodgrass, the non-commissioned officers c and 20 rank and file were in attendance, j I was glad to see that Captain Ruck and t some other gentlemen from Masterton a were in attendance for some time while s the drill was going on. The presence of r those not connected with the corps from ( time to time, is conducive to the eicient i working of the member who are thus put o

on their metal to see that they do not fall short of the proficiency exhibited by the corps of which their visitors maybe members, After the dismissal, a meeting ofthe Committee took place to frame rules for the eicient working of the band. Since Mr Richards assumed the Mastership of the Carterton School, the atten- . dance has most materially increased, and and the conduct of the studies'of his pupils has won him the goodwill and esteem of the parents whose children are under his tutelage. Ihave to congratulate him and our esteemed fellow townsman Mr R. Pairbrother on the son of the latter having carried off one of the premiums offered at the late scholarship efy animations. The scholar who has won the ,' laurel crown is but' a youngster and we hope to see him i£\Jg& up by assiduous application the suc{&BH| has thus meritoriously won in his TarJS

mere is a report about that owing gag the paucity of work one or two of dSfHji smaller saw millers are likely to shut&H shop for awhile. I merely accredit v&gm popular 'on dit,' as I have no definite'ijH formation on the matter, but as there WEi seldom smoke without fire, lam inclin(fflffl for once in a way to believe that whafffl everyone says must be true. ' Jra