DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1927, 9 December 1913, Page 10

DISTRICT NEWS.

JOTTINGS FROM PROVINCIAL CENTRES. (From Our rijicciai Corrcflpondent-s.) NAPIER. The revenue iron; the Napier tramways last week amounted to i:I7N lis. 3d. A Territorial named 11. Campbell was lined i'i is. at the .Napier Magistrate' Court yesterday morning, and was deprived of his civil rights for live yearn for failing to attend parades. So far Messrs. Wildish and M'Clisfcie. of Gishorne, and W. liodley, of Wairoa, have been noimnated for the vacancy on •the Hatvke's. ltoy Education Board caused by tiio resignation of Mr. W. Morgan.

Thougb_ the shortage of enal is being felt in .Napier, then: is still some to be had at £,'! a ton. The Hospital Hoard cannot obtain any from she contractor, but have one month's supply in hand. The County Council 14vo appointed Mr, C. O. Kennedy to represent iiiem at the conference of tiio lnslitulo of Loral Government Engineers, . The local branch 01* "the Girls' Friendly .Society have received subscriptions amounting to £172 Bs. od. towards tho Hostel Fund. Mr. T. P. Hewitt-, lato supcrintou.dent of tho Napier tramway* power Iloll.se, who resigned his position last Saturday, was met. by members of Die power-house stnif last nijlit, stud _preseutcd with a silver cigar-case, eigar-<'tte-case, and matchbox. Mr. Hewitt leaves to-day for Wellington. At a meeting nf tiie Public Works Committee ol the Napier Bormii/h Council last liii'ht, which comprises the- whole council, it was decided io recommend the taking of a poll of utepayers to borrow £17,000_for extension of tho tramways to.' Hastings Street South. All additional proposal to extend the tramways to Hospital Hill, via Milton Road, was deferred for three months.

PALMERSTON NORTH. The Terrace End new Presbyterian Church was opened 011 Sunday, when tho Rev. A. Doull preached to a crowded congregation. The Borough Council employees oil Saturday presented a case of pipes to Mr. George Walker, who takes up tho position as foreman of works, under Mr. Fisher, engineer to the Palmerston itiver Hoard. The Rev. H. G. Ilosser returned homo ynsterda-y, convalescent, after an operation for appendicitis. Coal samples have been received at Pnlmerston for analysis from Shannon, where a probable seam is reported. Tho Wanganui Presbytery meets hero to-day. Tho Paimerston Amateur Opcratic Society, which has stinted a new existence hero, and stages "Dorothy" tonight, has been asked to givo tiiis com-ody-opera at Wanganui, where its financial success is guaranteed.