DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1855, 15 September 1913, Page 10

DISTRICT NEWS.

JOTTINGS FROM PROVINCIAL | CENTRES. (Prom Our Special Correspondents.) PALMHRSTON NORTH. Mr. G. li. Dall, Inspector of Post OHices, during an official visit ivas interviewed by the Chamber of Commerce which asked for the I'ullowiug matters: Metallic telephone circuit, extra wires for telephone use to Wellington, telephone communication (daytime) with Hawko's Bay, Wairarapa extensions, Money Order and Savings Bank Department, discharge of Auckland mails at post ofiico corner as tho express I asses, and raising Palmcrston Office to the status of a Chief Post Office. As a result of Mr. Dall's replies it is understood that most of theso requests are already receiving attention. The Reform .League is inviting tho whole Government party to visit Palnicrston when tho Priino Minister coinca on September 20. The league's annual meeting is on Wednesday. Mr. Albert and Mrs. Saiusbury, who shortly leave for England, wore on Friday presented with a silver hot water jug as a parting gift from the committee of the Ladies' Guild of St. Peter's Church, Terrace End, whero for _ somo timo they have been active choir members. NAPIER. A sum of £56 14s. has already been subscribed towards tho Swan memorial. It is feared that the sharp frost on Friday night last has caused considerable damage to tho peach orchards. The Hastings Bowling Club .have elected , the following officers for tlie ensuing year:—President,'Mr. F. lung; vice-president, Mr. L. F. I'eglcr; treasurer, Mr. J. W. Bates; secretary, Mr. J. E. Hall; management committee, Messrs. U. Banks, J. Grant, W. Smith,. J. Holt-, J. It. Gillespie, T. Clarkson, and A.j Ramsay; auditor, Mr. H. P. Stratton. Mrs. S. G. Poppclwell, of Hastings, who was originally selected to accompany tho Hawke's Bay ladies' hockey leprescntatives, but stood down in favour of Mrs. Helm, owing to objections raised by the Napier players, has been presented with a handsome salad bowl by the Hastings Hockey Association as a token of their esteem. Five criminal, six civil, and three divorco cases will como before tho Chief Justice, at tho sittings of the Supremo Court which commence to-day At a meeting of the Harbour Board on Tuesday a motion will comb up lor consideration which proposes that an amendment be inserted in the Napier Inner Harbour Bill providing for the discontinuance of Government appointments to the hoard when tho present appointees' terms expire. DALEFIELD. On Friday last ,an enjoyable evening was' spent in tho Dalefield Hall,' a social being given to celebrate t'ho Dalefield j boys having won the Nioil-Pi'f-.f/.nell cup • for Wairarapa school boys, for tho year l'Jl3. Games proceeded for tho first part of tho evenih/, the grown-ups and tlis children entering into the sport readily; then followed dancing for the children'.' After somo' songs from the children supper 1 was hands'! round. Tho rest of the evening was spent in a dance for tb»- grown-ups. PAHIATUA. The Pahiatua County Council at its next mooting proposes to pass a resolution bringing a clauso of tho Motor ! Registration Act into operation, thereby. empowering tho council to become j a roistering body for motor-cars"., Tho secretary of the Pahiatua De- ] fence Riflo Club (Mr. R. V. King) has j accepted Lieutenant F. Bolton s (of. * Oete) offer to present several trophies j which ho won wliilo attached to tho : old Pahiatua Mounted Rifles to tho rifle club, for-competition among tho j members. The formal opening shoot i of tlie club will take place as soon as tho rifles ordered como to hand. Mrs. Griffiths, of Waimiro, who was I brought into the Pahiatua Hospital on j Saturday last as tho result of injuries : received' in a trap accident on tho Makuri-Pongaroa road, is progressing favourably towards recovery. NELSON. Mr. 0. W. Brown's residence at Stoko narrowly escaped being destroyed by (ire oil Tuesday evening. A kerosene lamp exploded, and tfio dining-room was soon a mass of flames, which were with difficulty subdued. Tho address of welcomo to ho presented to Lord and Lady Liverpool on their first visit to the city on September 20 has been engrossed and illuminated by tho Town Clerk, Mr. G. A. Edmonds. Between two and throe o'clock on Sunday morning, September 7, Mrs. Maseficld's residence at Manaroa, Pelorus Sound, was totally destroyed by fire. There was a small insurance on the building, but Mrs. Masefield's loss will bo a substantial one, as a quantity of Stores, etc., wero destroyed. Word was | received in Neslon on Thursday that the residence of Mr: and Mrs. W. Moran, of tho Baton, was totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday last, very little being saved. At tho time of 'the firo Mrs. Moran was in town, receiving medical attention. Her husband was also in town oil business, leaving \ a young family under tho caro of a young lady. Tho occupants wero aroused 1 on the night in question by signs of fire, and attempts wero made to remove some of the contents after getting the children out. In this they were only partially successful, when tliov had'..to make a hasty retreat. The origin of tho firo is unknown. '