DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2212, 27 July 1914, Page 8

DISTRICT NEWS.

« ' JOTTINGS FROM PROVINCIAL CENTRES. (From Our Spocial Correspondents) PALMERSTON NORTH. A meeting of citizens called by the League discussed the tramway question on Thursday evening. Tho chairman (Air. G, H. Bennett), in open-, ing the meeting, favoured the Edison storage battery system, from which electric lighting could follow, and an overhead l system could be elaborated later if decided on. A mass meeting is to be called to protest against the coun- , oil's delay. Councillor Urabb advocated sending three councillors to* inspect the systems in Melbouruo —three councillors whoso views favoured respectively the overhead system, motor ' buses, and some other system. '_ A thoroughbred horse belonging . to Mr.'D. Buick, of Kairanga, bumping against a motor-car in the main street, bolted, through' Grey Street, Terrace' Street,.Featherston Street, and then, 'having done nearly half the circuit or the town, brought up at the High School with a broken leg. It was destroyed. At • a. meeting of the Carnival Committee on Thursday night it was estimated that the available surplus for distribution will be over £700. Up to yesterday £1007 had been bauked. The surplus will be distributed as follows :— District nurse fund, £40; Children's Orphanage, £20; unsuccessful' queori candidates, £5 each; balance to'tho Band and the Orchestral Society.. The secretary, Mr. Swallow, receives £60. The parishioners of All Saints' Angli; can Church'on Friday, evening appointed a committee to arrange for the erection of the Medical Missions Court entrusted to this district at the Wellington exhibition of ■ the' Marsden Centenary next February. : Later, probably; this court may be removed here for display. :' The Rev. H. G.'Rosher,.in Taranaki, is pushing the interests of the All Saints' Children Orphanage. ■ The Soft Goods' Association, which now has, a membership of eighty, holds a social shortly. ' The Friendly Societies'. Dispensary Committee, at a final meeting on Friday evening, handed over its further operations to the new Board of Management, of whom Mr. M. Kennedy is president, Mr. S- J-. Watson secretary, and Mr. 0. S." Rush treasurer. The. hoard will complete a lease and purchase of property in Cuba Street for a dispensary, which may be ready for opening at the New Year. ./ The suggestion is made that mails for the Up Snd down Auckland expresses which pass during the. night at 12.45 and 3.20 a.m. respectively, should be closed considerably, later than at tho present hour, 8.30 p.m. MASTERTON. The Mayor (Mr. J. M. .Coradine) has been advised that the .A.M.P. Society has ccnftfined the loan of £10,000./ to: tho Borough Council for theverectjon of. municipal buildings. , Tho loan is for 361 years, and the interest is 5. per cent., with l.por cont; sinking fund. . Three Territorials were yesterday convicted and ordered to pay costs for failing to attend drill. -~.,-'. A very fine stag's head is being sent to the Panama Exposition by Mr. W. Cooper, of Masterton. .-...' Thirty, patiouts are at present receiving treatment in the Masterton Hospital. Two of these are suffering from scarlet feveri : ' - ' A 'Chinaman-',named Yet Yah was. charged in-ithe 'Magistrate's Court .on' Saturday with' assaulting a European youth by pulling hira off his bicycle and punching him. He was convicted: and ordered to pay costs. - ■ Tho weather was so severe.on Satut-■• day that air Rugby football, matches were abandoned; , ' ,' -, : .„.-'"v,.« - -'At a meeting of tho Mauriceville Rifle ■ Club' it was:'.'decided to accept the site bv Messrs. 11. A. Cameron and R; F. Wilton for a butts and.range. " Pastor Swinerd has been engaged for special mission work in conncctionwith ■the Presbyterian Church, in, the Wair'arapa- district. - • . J Mr. J. H. Primmer, Government v eterinarian, is to give a demonstration on Mr. Hi'Daysh's farm at Maryborough. on : Monday, next. . _' ./■ 'y. The Masterton Gun Club will hold another Gun Club shoot at Masterton to-day. ,' . ; '•'' An emergency mooting of the »,<«rarapa Educational Institute is to be held to-day, to consider the Education - Bill now before Parliament. :. . ' ■ ■>/ OTAKl. '.".;.'■;, / At a meeting of horticulturists on Friday evening, it was decided to hold a bulb show here during September for the purpose of raising funds to devote to the China Inland Mission. Mrs. C. Y. Swabey and Miss Blakiston _ have been appointed secretaries', and judging ■'. by the/interest already, displayed the show should prove a' successful one. Mr. J. Mann, of tho Bank of New 1 Zealand staff in. 'Carterton,; is spending his annual holiday in Otaki. .Mr. W. M'Kegg, chairman of the local Town' Board, left on Friday for Dunediin. He expecti to be away .sev-r eraldays. ' ; : Ernest Nicoll on Friday appeared be-, fore Mr. H. Freeman, J .P., and- was, charged with driving a, vehicle at night, without lights.. l ;He was fined Is. and costs 7s. CARTERTON. ; Mr. W. Tucker, of Carterton, has' presented. to the Wairarapa and East Coast P. and Ay Society a very handsonw silver cup as a challenge trophy, to be used as the society. thinks fit, and in any conditions they choose _to lay down. The trophy is of sterling silver, and stands,about ten inches high, beautifully, finished, and rests on an ebony stand.. ■ ' • A very pleasant card tourney was held under the auspices of the Carterton Fire Brigade on Friday evening, the winning prizes falling to Miss Erski«o and Mr. J. M'Guinness. The consolation prizes were awarded to Miss Her-, cock and M. A. Bond. i