PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 716, 15 January 1910, Page 10

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

v/;I/ 0 ; t(By, Teleitraph;--SBecial lOorreaDbndent.):/'. l'\-l:■ ]:J&. ,/p ■•Pairnerston'JV; January-: 14, V :/ 1 :; 'The/Mayawati-Drainage. Board.has/ac'.copted'a'/tender/for "an 'important 'section ;bf its.■■'dra'inige'soh.emei;,' which;' when, /completed,...will'ihave/ a".great:-'offect-.-on. the/storm:ahd'fflood'waters : of the borough, -A/corisidefabto/portibri. .of^ihe/Hangaond' Stream;,'-.which'.: to has 'a'h'eadyybeerirstraighfehed and .deep-' -dried,/; arid, k when.- the :'sectiori /which/has /how/been/let/is- completed, "'. the -borough,. .'bh/< the; -. ticallyy free.-from '/the overflow -from '_■ this .'stream;:' which' ■has"ca'nso'dsbmo'-trouble, .ahd'annoyancb.;in/the:: past to/residents )Uving.%iii i .tho;^yiciJii^3;V l.The'-iteiidor;:.'of-:Messrs.s.Hocking and' Davey ( ' : ati'j£7S9,;has : beeh/:accepted/for/ work;://// ;y /.;.■'.'.; ;'%A ■Jarge'iumber.Vof ;;Palmerstbn'v resi•dents;.iourneyed/.fo/yHuite'rville yesterday. ;.tb.attend v/the/funeral; of;' the Mate...- MivAlexander SPeißf;M'Gregpr,;>s6n'vbf, ( ;Mr. 'Alexiv'M'GregorJ'.of'.Wherarbni/vwhb -:ivris' "sizing;?,;/Thb; : first;, portion/of- tho /burial iervico; was conducted at- the Residence of' the; parents;"by/ the -Be iyl '; : A£r.';«Hall- and' ; the/ZRcv^E./G^Eyahs,;.of - Fordeli;- the .RCTi~-:Mr. ; '.vmv/largo :;ga^^ .over';"thei|; aisti-ibtj'r-'an'd'*; deep /iraS:; .expressed' ■; for' ( tho ..family / in; •' their /bereavement.;/ //i.:/j/■ .',';'■■.; ; i : i /'/.'/;'/'.■ // //•■.-; o''Cap^am.He^vitt,:'wio•hasVcnnrge/of the: /Mahawatti'r Philosophical;, Society's: obser/ :yatory.;in the)Squnro,:nhd;isyanlanthority : , bnV : matters' ; ;asttohbniical,'''giyes.it-.as his'; ppipion';that. .'theTo ';s ;'little',',cKance;:of: 'seeing'K.Halley's j bbmet 1 . vbefbre.'tha'end'. .'offMarch.'.-'fleistates^ihat'the'.comet is -.tr'ayellihg; : ,away,-.from' -the -'earth'-at the I ■ratb:',bi.;hear]yj-d milli&n'"m!lesa day,.and' ■.}viir:contihue .doihg.'so. till' March;7,when': ~-it:"will-;.b'e,,'on': : ':the bppo'dte;side, of .'the ;snn';itb'" - thß':'earft,;-.distant^-'!fbout:l74 , ..mil-. '4ibn'iMe3.-'-; ! -Afteitbit , .ijt.'.will : ;dfa'wriearor .itb-the'earthivuniili.;bii' 'April lG.'jit-will develbp^.tpp-.speed, and- comß.,at. ; ;us 'at ihe:'rate;bf-something like-'three;and:'.a. .quartCT'minibii;;milos7a'. day,:;the! pace. ,stillmcre^ing'.itill 11,-;. when, other UnJlhence£--;wiU, : causb, : ;i:a!. diminution ,-in Velocity. "':',Captlin''H6,wittVdbes',: not think , of -the -comet.-willvpass-behvebn; '.thb:earth;and-snn;'a''i; ; :;^, , '"■:Ji', charge .'.of hasbeenlaid "against:-n^rbsident : of ;X)rona' Bridge,' 'and; ;will be' heard; in, the~ court; here on.itbn-, day. 'has-been:; brought-, by'}'a:'p"rivate\in'dividUaC.will : :probably-:, tak'e;:b,cbhsidcr'able ; timo,:aS;a.large;:riuln-; bor■',"of ■' witnesses' hfi'ye'beeni,'subpobhed.;•■;