HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1081, 21 March 1911, Page 9

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) AREA OF HUTT PARK. A special meeting of the Hutt Park Committee was held last evening. Tliospresent were: Messrs. Baldwin (chairman), Macaskill, Barlow, " 'Southgato, M'Ewan, and Jones. A letter was' received, from Messrs. Findlay, Dalziell and Co., dealing with the Park Committee's title to nine acres of land adjoining tho park, which the? have been holding on lease from Messrs. P. Nathan and Co. In the opinion" of tho solicitors, some seven acres of this land is the property of tho- committee, so that the lessors were only cictitled-tc M ss. yearly rental, instead of ,£25, as has hitherto been paid to them. The committee decided to write, tc Messrs. Nathan'and Reeve, pointing onl than an excessive rental had erroneously been paid to them for three years, anc' asking for a refund. In regard to another piece of land ad joining the park, the chairman statec that the Gracneld Land .Syndicate lu-.i ploughed up one acre, which, though out side the present fence, belonged to tin park. It was decided to offer a lease o! this section to the Gracefield Land Syndi cats at a yearly rental of £o. The readjustments mentioned have flu effect of adding 8 acres to tho area of tin park, bringing its total area up to 10; acres, - . ' COURT SITTINGS. Mr. A. J. Chapman convicted and dis charged a first.- offender for .drnukeimes: at the Lower Hutt Court yesterday morn ing. At a sitting of the, Petone Court yes terday morning a first offender for drunk enness -was lined 55., ill default 24 hours imprisonment. Members of the Hutt AVesley congre Ration celebrated, their Sunday Schoo anniversary on Sunday last. The Rev E. 0. Blamires was the preacher in tlv morning and afternoon, and the Rev B. F. Rothwell in the evening. Th children of the school, who rendered th choral part of the service, were trainei by Mr... Shearer. The celebration is ti b'e continued this evening, when Hi distribution of priics will take place. A- woman applied to (lie Tottenhar magistrate for a summons against th head mistress of a local school, becaus she ordered a. scholar to cut her daugli ter's finger-nails, with tho result tlia the child was hurt. Tho magistrate sai that it was an assault by proxy. The Roman boat recently discovered o the site of the new County Hall at Wesl minster Bridge, is probably a relic of th first fleet formed to protect the shores r Britain. A coin of Allectus, which wa found in the boat, points to its dnt being about 203-21)6 a.d. The most painful thing under the sun, And distressing if let too long run, Is the corn that stop 3 walking, And sets people talking, Ere a loaso of new lifo is begun. BARRACLOUGII'S PROGANDRA FOR CORNS, Is. Railway officipls and servants, thei widows and orphans, have benefitted h more than ,£217,000 since the' establisl meut of the United Kingdom Railway 0 Seers' and Servants' Association,