DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1977, 6 February 1914, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

JOTTINGS FROM PROVINCIAL CENTRES, • (Fran 0m Sisccla'l Correspondents.! PAUIERSTOH. Tho .Royal Artillery Jiarnl coneei't drew a crowded audience 1 to the Opera House. Tlu; Jladitim Institute Fund has received lrom Mrs. W. Coombs a. sum of £25 as a first donation. The Palmerston High School reopened yesterday. A movement is Oil fopt to start a junior branch of tho school, and tho Board of Governors have invited parents who would support sutih a branch to notify tliem. A slight- earthquake occurred just after mid-day yesterday. Members of tho Manawat'u Kilwinning and other Lodges listened to a •lecture by V.W. Bro. Briggs, of Wellington, on Wednesday isigiit. 'live staff of Messrs. Keeling and Mundy liavo presented a jewel case to Miss Myrtle Ikrtling who is leaving tho firm's employment. A counter petition, in opposition to tho Borough Council's request that the Government should fence tho railway through the town, has been sent to the Minister. _It 'is signed by 42 Main Street residents. Thoir objection is that tho fencing would concentrate tho traffic at the crossings and accentuate tho block of traffic. They would prefer that tho whole lino from Terrace End to Pal* mcrston should bo mado one big level crossing.