DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1827, 13 August 1913, Page 9

DISTRICT NEWS.

JOTTINGS FROM PROVINCIAL CENTRES. (From Our Own Correspondents.) PALMERSTON NORTH. It is understood that the Chief .lustice (Sir Robert Stout J will conduct the sessions' of tho Supreme Court here this month. The Manawatu Rugby Union, at a meeting on luonday'night, appointed Jlt. Mansfield manager of the team to play Wainirapa at. Masterton next Friday. -Mr. Jucobs's recent riding accident was the subject of a vote of sympathy and 'good wisnes. Arrangement were complet«l lor tho visit of t'liic 'I'airanaki team next Wednesday. Trophies are being called in for presentation to the new winners after the Abraham Cup matches next Saturday. On pretence of purchasing a pair of boots in a soccaiU-hand shop, diaries M'Lcnnau waited till the shopman's back was turned and then decamped with the boots. Ho pleaded guilty, and received a sentence of three months.

'In the Civil Court, at Palmerston yesterday, lioid and Ehlers sued Smith and Hall for £li os., for screening metal at Awahuri. : Defendants were contractors for metalling for the Jlanawatu County. After evidence, judgment was given, for plaintiffs for JCB and costs .E3 lis. The following "tag"' appeared on tho balance-sheet of tho Kairanga County Comicil, namely, JE9SO loan illegally spent on roads on private property. The roads alluded to wero on tho Siberia Estate. The letter frpm the Auditor-Gejieral stated that the roads were private property, and he invited explanations as to why ho should not take legal action. Tho council deliberated yesterday, and tho chairman (Mr. L. E: Bryant) said that he thought that the best way was to refer the matter to the clerk and solicitor to reply. He stated that the council did not intend to repeat such an action. "We are in trouble," ho said, "and I think that this is the best _.war out. The council resolved accordingly." The new West End School mow lias a roll number of 250. The. committee la.pt evening passed a motion of sympathy with Mr. .las. Gatfteld, wlio was injured in the station gas fire. NAPIER. Mr. C. B. Hoadley, who has been ill for some littlo time, has had a relapse, and his condition is causing some anxiety. Rain has fallen almost continuously for the past twelve hours, and is generally welcomed, especially by the farmers. Among the visitors to Napier are Mrs. Eose and Miss Greenfield, Lower Hutt, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Wilson, Dunedin, and Mr. and Mrs. Fraer, Christchurch'. A Nitive patient at I'orangahau is suffering from a disease which if* believed to be smallpox. The case lias not yet been diagnosed, so considerable doubt exists ns to the true nature of the disease. Napier Cathedral was packed last night, when Mr. Horace Weber, organist, who leaves on Thnrsdav to take up the position of organist at tho North Adelaido Baptist Church, gave his farewell recital. Mr. Weber, during three years in Napier, lias given 75 recitals. NEW PLYMOUTH. The annual meeting of the New Plymouth Gas Company was hold on Monday, when Mr. E. Diockrill presided over an attendance of about twelve shareholders. The report a.nd balance-sheet were adopted, withuut discussion. The two retiring directors, Messrs. Mills and Healy, were re-elected. Mr. J. C. Davies was appointed auditor, and it was rer folved to send Mr. J. S. M'Kellar, the retiring auditor, a letter of appreciation of his long servico and regret at his resignation. Votes of thanks to chair and to the staff concluded the business. The Maketewa Dairy Company decided at its annual meeting last week to subsidise rural technical education to tho extent of Is. per ton on the season's butter output ~ -■ Mr. Antrobns, who is'relinquishing the -nvhnagemMt of th6"'jr«*n«itf ,: ftVaiok»ro) factory after almost .continuously holdin-'! it for 27 years, when it was first crccted, has more than any other _ mapagw in Taraniiki" witnessed' the vicissitudes 'of dairying from, its 9n1a.1l commencement to its present large proportions. Ife retires to his homestead on the Manaia Road, and is succeeded by Mr. Silas J. Greenhill who has been with Mr. Antrobus for about five years, for the past three as; fiist assistant atj aiokura. Manaia \\itBC On August 5 the "Taranaki Herald's" Tatu correspondent wrote that lie thought Tatu could beat any . other part of Taranwki in having lambs two weeks old. Since then it is learned that at the dinner given to Mr. .1; T). Henry on .TIIIS Ji a lamb four weeks old, and grown on Hie Franklev Road,, was used, its weight when killed being 241b.,