PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1247, 2 October 1911, Page 2

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

« • (By Telegraph.—Special CorreSßomJcnt.l Palmcrston North, September 29. Mrs. \V. F. I'hillips, of Fciiiling, white looking in tlie window of a l'oimeivtou shop yesterday was struck oil tlio head by a large hanging gas lamp, which cjimo down without tho slightest warning. Mrs. Phillips was stunned by tho blow, and had it not been for tho nat which she was wearing her injuries would probably havo been very severe. Eight entries havo boon received for Ilia Manawatu A. and I'. Association's butlerkit 00111 petition. Messrs. S. U. Laiica&tnr, A. '11, llnleombe, A. liucliaji.ui, mid \Y. i I. Lovelock havo entered two cows each. . The first-named three were Jersey breeders ; whilo tho last is a HoMein breeder. i. At 9.15 to-night the fire boll rang, tho j residence ol' Mr...A. 15. Mansford in East i Street being in flames. Tho fire bri- , gado had a long dis'.anee to go, and tho ! lire had got a groat hold before it ar-; rived on tho scene. Tho back portion o(! the house was burnt, and much damncc! clono to tho whole of it. The insuraucej ; wero not ascertainable to-night. October 1. i Yesterday a Maori named Aknhapa I Himiona was'admitted to tho hospital I suft'ering from injuries lo' his head sup> \ posed to have lxxm received from, a fall > from a railway carriage at Koputaroa, i but what actually happened lias not yst, transpired, i" A broken arm was sustained h.v Mr. Charles Cinwes nianoscr of the factory of tlio- Fresh Food and Cool Stores Company, here jvslerday through being caught in tlio beltniß of a machine he was attending. Mr. Grcovcs showed luuoli nrc* sonoe \>i mind, and stopped the machinery with his uninjured arm. The Kiv.ss Datul rendered a fine pivgramme of music in tli,c band s\ilmula in the Square this afternoon; a larff. 1 crowd assembling lo listen to Wie niu^io.