HASTINGS NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 574, 31 July 1909, Page 15

HASTINGS NOTES.

-.(Uy TcloCraph.-Spcclnl CorrcßDondcnt.) Hastings, July SO. ■■ Thd'Vory Rov. FathoivKooEh arrived licro last- nlglit, lmvins;.- been appointed -- parish pnast. ,Tho tiluldron of tljo Roman Catholic School welqomcd jiimrthis morning,,.;iyith an address and concert. The parishioners vol-. - comcclhim toringlit at a social in thc.Catholic Hall,

-• A casd-of'South African'rifles 'has been placcd 1 . in a positions the landing near tho lecture-roam in tlio Ellbliq Library, .Tlw Native Land.Court .is. still sitting. 'To-day it was occupied in .defining ,tho individual (interests in the Jlanawaangingi Block '' 1 Mr. "A". L. D. L'raser.. appeared for the applicants, and Messrs, Weston (Wellington), and Scannell for tlio ovnora"( , At a meeting of residents of l'akipaki last night, M?. N.i Bethuno presented the ltev,.' J.' .L. -A. Kayllj who has* been appointed to the Prisons Department, with a handsomo gold'sovereign-case. A public farewell to Mr. 'Kayll. will' tako placc'at yjlustings on Monday, : . ' Master li. Waldcn. of Maliora, who camo Dteond in -the Hawko'c Bay schoolboys' ohampionship, was presented last night with tho N.Z.A.S. Association's silver medal. Tho presentation was made by. Mr. H. E. ; Baglc•t6hi : and., responded to by. the; recipient's, father, j ■ ■. , ' ,' r : At tho Pohco Court to-day, before Mr. S. E- M'Oarthy, S.M„ Damol Woods pleaded -guilty on two oliaiMS of-stealing'a-pair of boots and a pair of.tronsers, and 13 pairs of socks. Ho was convictcd and discharged on tbo first charge, and fined '£2 or '14 days on tho second. - John Hiiles and Harry Jackvsqo pleaded, not ,guilty v tp stpalinfi' a pair of trousers. After, evidence had" been given, iHines,. who -bad a long list of ■ nrovipuß coniyictions, was fined £5 or three' jnonths, and ; Jaokson £1 or 14 day?, •.,'-' ," i : -