DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2269, 1 October 1914, Page 9

DISTRICT NEWS.

JOTTINGS FROM PROVINCIAL • CENTRES.

(From Our Special Correspondents J PALMERSTON NORTH. The electoral campaign here opened oil Tuesday night, when Mr. li. H. Orabb, Opposition candidate, addressed a meeting. The citizens' meeting onTuesday night disoussed the iormation of ia committee to organise assistance for the Huntly distress sufferers. _ Members of the Labour organisations attended, and appealed to the meeting to join in with the committee recently appointed at the. meeting called, by Labour unions. The meeting consented; and elected additional members to that committee. At the Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, Claud Batt pleaded guilty to forging the name ot an hatelkeeper, T. Childs, to two cheques, and was committed for sentence. On a further charge of altering a cheque of 11. D. Hunt from £4 os. to , £14 55., he was remanded to Masterton. I At the inquest on- Thos. Seed, an old man, who came in ill from Longburn and dropped dead at Dr. Bett's surgery, the evidence was to the effect that the main artery, situated in the chest, had burst. A verdict was re-, turned accordingly. MASTERTON, Twenty-six births, five marriages, and one death were recorded ili Masterton during the mouth of September. • , The appeal made in the Supreme Court against the decision of Mr. L. G. Reid, S.M., in which judgment was given for the Masspy, Harris Company against a Featherston settler named Galyer, for the value of agricultural implements purchased from a third party, who had them on hire, was dismissed by Mr. Justice Edwards. One bankruptcy has been registered in Masterton for tlie" month of . September, making eight for the year.'. An infant soil of Mr. F. J. Brooks, of the. Taratahi, had its shoulder badly fractured in a fall. OTAKI. A heavy thunderstorm broke over a portion of Manakau at the end of the week, and severely damaged young trees and plants. It is said to have been the worst experienced for 30 years. At the Police Court Walter Rice, charged with the theft of £9 and sundry articles, valued at £15, the property of James M'Laughlin, was remanded till October 8. For drunkenness Fred Kingham was fined 10s., and Charles Thomer was formally convicted.NAPIER. The Hawke's Bay Veterans' Association last night decided to make a donation to the Belgian Relief Fuiicl. Vital statistics for Napier for the past three months were:—l 24 births, 71 deaths, 32 marriages, as compared with 110 births, 57 deaths, and 42 marriages for the corresponding poriod of 1913. The Hastings Belgian , Relief Fund now amounts to £2168 13s. lid., and tho Patriotic Fund to £3134 lis. 3d. ' Mr. . Justice . Dcnniston. ieft Napier yesterday morning for Welington. ; Mr. anld Mrs. Neill, of Welington, are visiting Napier. The vital statistics for Hastings for September are:—Births, 36; marriages, 4; deaths, 4.