PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 821, 21 May 1910, Page 3

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

IBy TelesraDh.-SDecial Correspondent.) >' Palmerston North, May 19. Constable Sweener, of Feilding, has been appointed aii acting-detective, and will bo stationed at Palmerston to assist Detective Quirko. Tho work of this police district has lately increased very much, and the appointment of another official became fmperative... There is a heavy calendar for thesitting _ of ilio Supreme Court which opens in Palmerston on Monday next. The case on the criminal side of most mtere-st is, of course, that concerning the charges of murder and robbery against Joseph Powelka. These, it is anticipated, will occupy fivi) or six days at least. Other criminal cases include charges of theft of clieques belonging to the Longlmrn Freezing Works by Archibald Muir; theft of gold watch by Robert Patrick Daly; false pretences against Wm. Worthington; theft of postal packet against Geo. Hurray: breach of Bankruptcy Act against ilbert Got. Steward. The civil list is not yet closed but, already, the sheet is very full, and includes a libel action I-? 1 - Bra " n d v. E. D. Hoben, claim loOl; same v. C. C. Warner for nllescd slander. £2; W. H. Duncan v. Glen Oroua Co-oporativo Dairy Company, alleged wrongful dismissal, £250; Elizabeth Jane Campbell and D. H. Campbell v. Philip J. Hennessey, €501 for alleged damages in collision with a n:otor-car; Maurice O'Connor v. Oroua County Council, for £189], claim for work done in connection with the Lower Gorge Bridge; National Mortgage and Agency Company. Ltd. v. Alex ° Fred crick Anderson, £592 6s. 10cl.) claim for. return of value of cheques cashed in connection with the Mnir CRse