PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 647, 26 October 1909, Page 6

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

■ (By Telegraph.—Stiooial Correspondent.) . . Palmorston, October 25. , Saturday afternoon.proved- anything but farourable'for outdoor sport, most of tie .garnet'-, especially, bowls>nd cricket, being, abandonedowing "to the rain which .fe11.,, ihe'. iligh, •School' crickit team' oommenced a game .with .the Longburtf eleven, however. ■-The latter , went in" first," and 'made 93. runs '(Gbldspritigv 46),, : but, shortly after the High • bohool ' side . commenced their innings,.-heavy rain put a , step to.'thegame.' The game between married and single members of Old- Boys' Club did not take .plaoe, but-the knights of., the r willcw. consoled'themselves with afternoon tea, which had bciti f provided by the lady friends-of the. club.;- lluchmoro-persevering . than the men folks, were tho members of tho ladies' Club,'who carried out'praotico.dospite the' elements. . Y". , ■ -- - • i pioy ou .the Hokowlutu Golf Lmks on baturday was anything but pleasant, and several of those engaged in the. mixed foursomes iCom-. ; .%• :• petition abandoned : the gaine. . This was tht> closing contest of. the season, and . tho, following Cooper and Miss How-.-itt, 8G; handicap 22, 1)4;, 11. L.-Vouiir and Mrs. Mellsop, 79-rl4-r65 i \V. Strang and Miss M'Lcnlian, Ba-r12—71; G. W.'Harden and Mrs. Cohen, i . 91—19—72; A'. Stewart and Miss Wylds, 91—19 ;: —72; A; N.'Bartaud, and.Miss M.■ Abraham, 92—i8r-74; J. Slack and Miss Slack,: 91—18—761 ; L.,A. ■ Abraham and Mrs. limes, 2Q—12—78; G. Preston and Miss .Prior, 92—14—78. In ;-tho ~ stroke competition F. W. Connell, 10 points, was fitst, and P. E. Darnell, 12 points, was, •first in the bbgey contest. Tho competition for. . . ' the Barraud and' Abraham American tournament cup ended in - a win for G.-Preston.- , Thfe Chinese of. Palmorston have subscribed , '.£2l 6s. 6d. ; towards'the funds 6f the local hos- : pital. , The new lakelets in- the Observatory scotion of - the Square are to have the' Water officially turned, on oh..;Wednesday,aftor'noon. -A number of water-fowl are to bo placcd*m tho lake- • At the Police Court thi6 morning, before Mr. A. D. Thomson, S.M., lliohard Brown; .... charged with wife, desertion, was.convictcd and • , sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and . was. also ordered to . pay 12s. 6d. por Week towards the'maintenance of his wife and child. Claude Ketter-was brought up en.remand on i a'- ;. chqrgo of committing perjury .in a> case in which he was chaVgca,.',itli vagrancy recently. The'alleged perjury '■tafcsisted in milking a , , statement that he haflf.JlO in . the Po6t Office Swings'- Bank, a „ trotting-, horse named New Chum. 7Ho was committed for, . - trial.'. As tho'result of-a fracas on Thursday . - night, in which Arthur, Blydo had his leg broken, Andrew Myers-was oharged with caus- • lug bodily liavm, ■ and was/remanaed' for : a ' Y fori night; in order. to enablo -Blydo to appear. Myers and a, man named Power were < also - charged, with using. threatening., behaviour.They'pleaded guilty,: and ■ were, fined 20s each. This afternoon; .before { Messrs. James and P. 1 Mowlem, J.P.'s,: Cliarles Cannon, alias Cnpps, v > . alias AVai son, and Claude .Hotter,- were brought. : up oriVcharge of ..breaking and , entering tho. • reaidenbo ■. of' George • Hnnsford at Boundary . Road and-stealing elbthing and goods to -tho, ■ value of JC7. They we; o committed for trial. , > BtUe-' :; Whit^ ; '. : who,; appeared- 'on .< a. charge of , vn'giaiicy, was oonvieted and dischaiged. j.