PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 701, 29 December 1909, Page 6

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

• 4-; I ' AN ESCAPE FROM THE CELLS. _ ' > (Prom Our Special Correspondent.) Palmorston, December 28. • ) The newly-formed Masonic Lodge J6 t» bs consecrated on January 12, when his Excellency Lord Plunkol, Most Waiship--1 ful Grand Maxtor, will assist >ui tho - 1 ccroniony. A very largo gathering of Masons is anticipated at tho function,' I'll* name' of tiic new organisation 1 is Lodge Huia, No. 171. ' ' I A young man.nanicd Horace Champion, escaped from the polico colls on Christ- , nrns morning by foigning illness. He; bad been arrested on a ohargo of theft of'a' ' bicycle, and was placed in a 001 l pcud--1 ing being brought beforo the Court., ; Champion was found lying on the floor ' of the coll apparently vory ill. Medical aid was called, and to give tho patient ,inore air tho doctor suggested that tho ' cell door should bo left open. Tho polio* t offered no objection to this, but in tho early hours of tho morning the "patient" inado his escape, 1 over a high board- 1 fence, on the lop of -nhich were barbed i wires. He has not been been since. , The semi-final round in connection with the Mauawatu Bowling Conho was played on tho Palmorston green to-day, wben tho Palmorston team, skipped by i C. Pickering, beat tho Fcilding team,* skipped )>y J. Bartholomew, by 17 to , IS. Tkcl final vi ill bo played on Wednesday between lv,o Palmcrston teams, skipped by J. A. Nash aud C. Piok&ttng. . At 3 o'clock this afternoon a vigorous alarm mis sounded on the fireboll, tho, causo b'i'iig a fire in a loft of tho etabloa. at tho Masonio Hotel, near tho railway - station. Tlio fire had got only a small hold when tho brigade arrived, and'tho firemen quickly quenched tho flames with one load of hoso. It appears that chil-. drcn plnjrng with matches was tho causa of tho firo.