DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1837, 25 August 1913, Page 11

DISTRICT NEWS.

JOTTINGS FROM PROVINCIAL CENTRES. (From Our Special Correspondents.) PALMERSTON NORTH. At tlio Supreme Court oil Saturday decrees nisi in divorce wero granted on the petitions of Andrew Robinson, Martha Coffey, and Arthur John Hayward. Petitions of liansione Hansen and Elizabeth lliggina wero adjourned for the production of further evidonce. At tho Polico Court a blind man, John M'Carthy, possessing 24 previous convictions and declared to bo "known all over Now Zealand," was sent to gaol for a month for using bad language when drunk at a time when ho refused to leave a hotel. A meeting to form a bowling centre for clubs around Palmerston will be held next Wednesday. Tho Manawatu Motor-cyclo Club, at its banquet on Friday evening, presented its president, Mr. F. Stocluvell, with an enlarged framed photograph of tho committee. Stony Creek settlors, at a farewell gathering, presented a gold sovereign case, filled, to t'ho Whakaronga Cheese Factory manager, Mr. Walsh! who is leaving the district. Mrs. Walsh received a dressing case. Palmorston bandsmen (who profited largely by recent concert benefits) aro inviting tenders for the supply of new uniforms. New instruments aro also being bought. Purchase of part of a Native reserve from the Public Trustee for recreation purposes at a valuation is under definite consideration. ! The Craven School concert, in aid of tho children's ward at tho hospital, produoed £84 which, with subsidy, will yield a total of £75. A motion to restrain tho Foxton Borough Council from vising tho borough funds to embark in tlio moving picture business will come boforo Sir Robort Stout to-day. Tho petitioner is Mario Hamor, wife of .William Hamor, of Foxton.

Lady Stout has been lecturing under the auspices of tho Women's Christian Tempcrance Union. Her lecturo to wemen on Friday has aroused much interest and she addressed a mooting of men in the Empire Hall yesterday afternoon. MASTERTON. A contingent from the Wellington Savage Club visited tlio local Savages this evening, and provided an evening's excellent entertainment. A ping-pong tournament was held in the Congregational Schoolroom last evening, between tlio Methodist and Congregational Boys' Clubs. The Methodists won. by a margin of sixteen games. The annual danco in connection with tlio Gladstone Football Club was held last evening. There was a very largo gathering, including a numbor, of visitors from Masterton.

The local Court of Foresters tendered a complimentary "social" last evening to members who had been over twentyone years in the Order. A lengthy toast list was honoured, and the proceedings were enlivened with songs and recitations by. various members. NAPIER. Mr. P. 0. Webb, tlio newly-elected Socialist member for Grey, and Mr, Edward Tregear, president of the Social Democratic party, addressed a fair<ly well attended public meeting on Saturday, those present chiefly consisting of men previously interested in tho La-.' bour movement. In his address Mr. Webb urged working people to join tlio Federation as a solution of all social, industrial, and political problems, and predicted that tho Liberal party would soon como into power again, and that after that tho country would' bo controlled by ono huge Labour organisation. Mr. Tregear mado lengthy address an support of tho Social Democratic party. In answer to questions Mr. Webb said there would bo no strikes when the Social Demooratio party camo into power, as tho workers would then get the whole product of their work. Ho wanted tho.workers to determine the polios of the men sent to Parliament and \feo that .they did not waver from it. At tho conclusion a motion was passed accepting tlio constitution of tho Federation of Labour and tho Social Democratic party. Yesterday the visitors woro entertained by Mr. J Vigor Brown, _ M.P., and motored around tho district.

Tlio scarcity of work in Hastings is being keenly felt and tho. unemployed have expressed their intention cf waiting on the Borough Council with a request for work.