DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1974, 3 February 1914, Page 5

DISTRICT NEWS.

■ _—__$- JOTTINGS FROM PROVINCIAL CENTRES. ! . (From Our Special Cofrcepontotii.) ! PALMERSTON. Miss I. Kerslake, on leaving the j Fitzherbcrt East School to take »P duties at the Campbell Street • School was presented by tjio pupils and settlers with a silver manicure set and a silver brush and comb. The prescnta* tion was made by the chairman of! tho committee, Mr. L. '&. Bryant, at tb» picnic of tho Fitzherbert'East School, which .took place on Saturday at Mr. S. K-. Lancaster's grounds. Mr. William Moore, an old identii.y and formerly a prominent athlete, polevaulter, and boxer, as well as a noted horse trainer and thoroughbred stud owner, died at Broad Street on Saturday after a long illness, Miss Doherty, formerly matron of the Palmerston Hospital, has jnst returned from a .visit to Grjat Britain. Tho "Manawatu IHmes," which has been leased in succession in recent years by Mr. Pierce Freeth, Mr. E, D. Hdben, and Mr. H. T. Drew,, was yesterday resumed by the proprietor, Mr. W. H. 'Smith, Mr. Drew's 'tease being terminated by mutual. arrangement. During Sunday morning's heaviest shower, water accumulated m the'Squkre and invaded the premises of Meesre. Watson Bros., grain merehatita, 'fi'oite-head-and Pears, milliners, Westmoreland, stationer, Ross Bros.j tailors, and the Alexandra' Toa Rooms, doing some damage. Messrs. Clark and Thompson, paint merchants, alsp suft'ered minor liiconvenience. - '

A Wellingtonian iiamed Smith hact a narrow escape at the Palmerston Station, on Saturday. ■ ■ He was alighting from a train with his back to the en* gine, believing, that, the train was stationary. He fell between tho platform and carriages,' several of the latter passing over hinj before tl<> train stopped. Smith had ißarvollous luck, and crawled up to tho platform with nothing more than minor bruises.' The Town Band , gave -special concerts on Sunday in the'showground and. the Opera House, hoping to raise £50 for tho expense of the trip to , the' Auckland contests , . The total realised was £36 7s.' 6d: :They depart for-'Auckland nest Saturday. -,i ■ The Presbyterian Sunday scholars will hold a picnic at Tiakitahuna nest Saturday. ■ ■ ' ■ . ■ ■-. - Mr.-W.-F. Durwa.rd has been cweted to the vacant governorship'of tho High School. : ' ■ ' ■ ■ A garden party will he held by Mrs. li. A. Abraham shortly ift aid of the bvilding fund'.of tho new Anglican Church.-