PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1524, 21 August 1912, Page 4

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

(By Telcffraph.—Speolal Correspondent.) Palmerston, August 20. Tho Departmental grant of XCO towards tho erection of an engineering 6hop at tho High Sohool has been paid over. The tender of Messrs. J. J. Niven to crcct the shop has boon accepted. No less a clieiue than ono for £250 has been forwarded by tho Mayoress (Mre. Nash) as the result of the very successful pariant fair organised bv her in aid of local secondary school funds—more especially the funds having for their object the construction, of swimming baths at the High School. The Government subsidy on this amount is now being applied lor. In the meantime tho tender of the Union Timber Company (.£135) lios been accepted for tho work. >r An inquest was held to-day by Mr. A. D. Thomson, S.M., district coroner, into the circumstances surrounding the death of a cabinetmaker named Walter Hodren, aged 47, who was found dead in bed. by his little daughter yesterday morning. Tho ovidenco showed that deceased had suffered from ill-health, and on Saturday had sent a rambling statement about his domestic affairs to tho sergeant of police. Tho medical evidence attributed death to lysol poisoning, and a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insano was rcturnod. .\n old resident. Mr. Duncan Matheson, died hero this morning. Deceased was for several vcars n successful contractor in Wellington and Dunedin, nnd was particularly well known in Palmerston and tho surrounding districts. Ho was born in Inverness-shire, Scotland, and camo to the colonics 37 years ago. In 1888 ho settled in Bunnythorpe, wliero lie was active in all projects that benefited tho community, lie was also one of tho first farmers who advocated tho dairy union, of which ho was a director. During his residence in Palmerston, Mr. Mntlieson occupied a seat on tho Borough Council,