PALMERSTON NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 830, 31 May 1910, Page 8

PALMERSTON NEWS.

if _ HEAVY LIST FOE THE JUDGE. (Dy Tcloffraph.-Spocial Correspondent.) Palmorston, May 30. Joseph Walworlh. of Palmersto'n, has been admitted to the hospital with a crushed hand, a piece of rock having fallen on it, inflicting severe injuries. A young man named F. Wilson had his shoulder dislocated whilst playing football at Palmerston on Saturday afternoon. _ The Palmerston corps of the Salvation Army celebrated it, tnonly-.-ixtli anniversary yesterday. Special services were held, all being well attended. At a meeting of the Holiday Association to-day a resolution was nlt.-i.s3d strongly approving the action taken by the Chamber of Commerce protesting'against the present method of collecting telephone bureau charges. Tlie question of cooperating with the Borough Council and the Beautifying Society in eolebrnting Arbor Day was also discussed, the proposal being most favourably received, especially as there would now be no public holiday between .rune 3 and Christmas. The matter will be further considered at the next meeting of the association. Messrs. Wallace, Laydon, Dempsey, Mellor, and Dickson were appointed to report on a scheme for holding a windowdressing competition during the National Dairy Show week. Messrs. W. C. Turner, C, Page, and D. M. George were elected to the committee. When the Supreme Court opened this morning Judge Cooper announced that he would not interrupt the sittings here as at first proposed to go to Wanganui to conduct the criminal cases there, but would go straight on till the business had been concluded. The list is a very lengthy one, and it is expected that it will occupy a month to dispose of. The third trial of the charges against Archibald Muir, of alleged stealing .CSOO from the National Mortgage and Agency Company, has occupied the Court all to-day.

Mr. A. G. Simms, Government Orchard Inspector, who has been stationed in I'iihnorston for a number of years, but has now been transferred to "the Auckland district, was entertained by a number of residents of Terrace End on Saturday' evening. The Mayor, Mr. J. A. Nash, presided, and on behalf of those , present and many other residents presented Mr. Sirams with a valuable cigarette-holder, at the same time speaking in complimentary terms of the recipient's many good qualities, and Riving expression to the regret felt at Mr. Simms's departure.

A pair of rock wallabies have been presented to. the Borough Council by Hiss Crichton-Imrie, a former resident of Palmerston, but now of Sydney. The animals arc to be placed oil the Esplanade.

Mr. W. Akcrs, of Linton, who recently gave ;•- very interesting address to the Faxmillcrs' Association on the (lax industry, os the result of observations mado while'on a recent visit, to the Old Country, has received a communication from Mr. W. T. Aston, of Gisborne, to the PlTect that ho has mado successful experiments, in preparing liax for manufacture into" linen.

The Palracrston Holiday Association has decided to observe the King's Birthday on Friday next as a full holiday. At a meeting of the executive of the Manawatu Caledonian Society to-night it was decided, in response to a solicitation from Mr. F. D. Opie, Director of,the Technical School, to give a gold medal for the best humorous Scotch recitation at. the elocutionary competitions to be hold in connection with the school in September next. ;