PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1064, 1 March 1911, Page 6

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) Palmmton, February 28. A horse in a grocer's cart bolted in a Palmerston street yesterday, and caused some excitement, especially as :■. live-year-eld child happened to l:o seated.in tlie vehicle. After going through .several streets the trap was capsized, hut the child (as is the curious i luck of thc-o things) escap-d without hurt. The vehicle and harness, however, suffered a good deal of damage. It .seems that, while, the driver was delivering goods at a. house, tho child climbed into the cart, and caught hold of tho reins. This had tho effect of setting tho horse in motion.

.Cj "conscience money" was received by t>. I'ahncrston business man among his correspondence this week.

Mr. fi. Bell,, manager of the "Aslilmrton Mail," is on a visit to Palmerston, He is tho guest of .Mr. I{. Jl'Nab.

The Palmcrslon Killes and Guards will be represented at the Trentliam rifle meeting next week by Colour-Sergeants Perrin and Ualxiell, Sergeant Stock, and Volunteers Griggs, Cook, and Hudson.

There was a largo attendance of members at Iho ordinary meeting of. the local Court of Foresters last evoniii!:, Jiro. Kosanowski, (,'.1!., being in the chair. The prospectus for the proposed Friendly Societies' dispensary was received, and it was decided to hold over discussion and considered till the nuartedy summoned meeting next moiidi.' I'.C.lf. lira. G. Wickenden was presented with a valuable, set of carvers by last year's Kuelirp Tournament Committee, as recognition of tho services which he had rendered to the court during winter. The prizes in connection with the last euchre tournament were presented to Bros. Gustal'sen, Smith, and Levy. ]ircs. Woir, Kosanowski, and J 'a tten were appointed to draw up rules for the next tournament. It was resolved to pay a fraternal visit to the Feildiug Court on March- 15. Two new members were initiated during the evening.

Search parties, organised bv the police, linvo boon nt work all day looking far the body of the man M'.Mnhon, who i> supposed to have been drtr.vncd in the llauawntu liiver near Talmerston on Saturdav night, but, up to dark, no trace of the missing man had been found.

Mr. S. I!. Lancaster, tlm well-known shcepbrceder, left to-day for the. C'mnbriclfio Show, where, lie will judge Urn Unwn ail'! fat sheen classes. Several l'aliii(;rston breeders are sonding stock to Ui is show.

With- a view of starting a Itonmey Marsh sheep (lock at his station at Kiiaiidn'lc, in the South Island, Mr. I{. M'Nali, of Palmerston, has purchased n ram and sixty owes of this breed from Jlr. G. Short, of Feildiny.