CARTERTON.
(from our own correspondent) October Bth. The Volunteers met last evening for their cusbtnary weekly drill ; Captain Snodgrass, Lieut, Bennett, and thirtytwo rank and file being in attendance, After dismissal the usual monthly meeting took place, when the members fees were paid up, half-a-dozen new members ballotted for and elected, and the rules drawn up for the due conduct of the band, which is now attached to tbe corps under the name of the Carterton Pifle Volunteer Band, considered, it being a sine qua non that bandsmen musk be members of the corps.
There were two shocks of earthquake early this morning, the one slight the other very sharp, shaking houses and beds, and setting the church hells ringing. I have not heard, however, tbat any material damage has been done by the tremble,
There is a meeting of the Carterton Cricket Club at Mr Edmunds' office on Friday evening, the 10th inst., at 7.30, to make arrangements for the present season, when I hope to see a good number of old members, and a considerable influx of new blood, I understand the use of one of Mr T. Ray's paddocks has been obtained for a practice ground for the season.
A meeting of settlers is shortly to be convened to consider the expediency:of having the Tarataln-Carterton district proclaimed a Rabbit District under the provisions of the Rabbit Nuisance Act. The rodents are now such a pest that it is clear something must be done to prevent the enemy from making the district a regular desert. The townsfolk may say the matter does not affect them, nor may
it immediately; but it does most materially incidentally, fur it is clear that if the country settlers are eaten out of house and homo, or. at any rate their means considerably reduced, as threatens to be the case if the pest is allowed further to increase, the central business of the district must necessarily languish and be dimished, as the centre is in a large measure reliable for its prosperity on the outside settlers.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 285, 9 October 1879, Page 2
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343CARTERTON. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 285, 9 October 1879, Page 2
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