PALMERSTON NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 797, 21 April 1910, Page 3

PALMERSTON NEWS.

TROUBLES OF A LESSEE. TRESPASSERS AND BOYS WITH REVOLVERS. (From Our Snecial Correspondent.) Palmerston, April 20. At a meeting of tho executive of tho Manawatu Hockey Association last night, Mr. Garner presiding, an offer from the New Zealand Association for a, match with the English team, on a guarantee of £50, was referred to the various clubs for consideration. An application by a new club (Fitzherbert East) for affiliation was granted. The season will be opened on May i with a five-a-side tournament. The Druids' lodges in the Manawatu district have formed a Royal Arch Chapter with the following officers:— E.A.D., Bro. C. J. Page: R.V.A., Bro. M. Hyland; R.A.G, Bro. J. Ellis; R.A. secretary, Bro. F. Jackson. The installation will take place at an early date. The Palmerston - Borough Conncil recently let forty acres of the borough reserves for dairying purposes, but there being no residence on the place the lessee' was not able, of course, to live on it. At last riighfs meeting of the council the lessee attended and informed the council that he was quite unable to carry on without living on the ground, as the property was overrun' with trespassers. On Sunday last there were between twenty and thirty people-there, coursing and shooting, and on 'the following day two boys were there practising with revolvers. It was decided to put an old cottage in repair, and request the police to put a stop to the shooting. The property is the- old racecourse, and apparently people think that tliey have a recognised right to trespass over it.

The Borough Council has decided to lay down a small portion of one of the streets wifJi crude petroleum, obtained from Taranaki,, with a view of allaying the dust, nuisance. , It was thought that it would bo possible to apply the petroleum to the roads by means of water carts, but this has been found, impracticable, as on the slightest contact with cold material hardens and requires heat:to liquify it again. In the middle of summer it might be possible to apply this material as suggested, but witi the present temperature the: crude liquid seems to be "of' much the 6anie consistency as vaseilne. As it is so late.in the season, and there appears to be.a difficulty in applying it, only a few'.yards of. a street: will be treated as an experiment.' Sir Joseph Ward was in Palmerston last evening:,] and went'on. to MangaWeka. by the first ■ train this morning to open a bridge there. . To-morrow he will open the hew post-office at Wereroa (Levin), returning to Wellington in the evening. His Excellency the Governor is to be presonted. with an address and entertained at lunch on the occasion of his final visit-to Palmerston on May 13. The Powelka seal* evidently affected the attendance of pupils at the public schools. At last nighfs meeting of the Terrace School Committee the headmaster reported that last .week no fewer than sixty pupils''we're absent from school the whole week.' • In the. Supreme Court to-uay, a decree nisi. was granted by ' Judge Sim in the divorce case, Helena Galpin against W. A. Galpin, • petitioner being granted custody of her child. The man who; a few days ago, fell through a skylight on to a concrete floor; still lies in the hospital in a precarious condition. ■' Before his Honour, Mr. Justice Sim, at the Supreme Court yesterday, the case was concluded in which Walter Seifert claimed' an;.injunction against Adam. Burges •' and' Te Makunuu, Ltd., for ah. alleged infringement 'of a patent apparatus for -washing 'flax/' Mr." T.'Young- ap-' peared-for plaintiff, and- Mr. C. V. Skerrett, K.C; ■' (with •' him Mr.', C. 'A. Loughnan), .for defendant. -:..After,..heamig further ■6^d6n , ce 1 ju'dg-: ment."":'.-. "-V '• '■" ■'..',>'.,'; ■>"'■: . .''