Palmerston Notes.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 85, 15 February 1902, Page 20

Palmerston Notes.

AT last the Palmeiston Noith Football Club has been formed All the initiator? stops were taken at a meeting presided over b\ Mr T. Hastings. The matter of also forming a union was postponed. The new club starts with, a membership of 33, and the following executive officers ha\ c been chosen Secretary, Mr. Ellis, treasuier. Mr. T. Hastings. Committee Messrs Wa he. Pearce. and Xewth » » * A meeting of those mteiested in the formation of an Athletic Club was held on Thursday. 30th January The meeting was ver\ enthusiastic and on the question whether the club should be affiliated to the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, or be run on "cash" lines being discussed, it was decided to circulate li9ts in town to ascertain whether the majority of athletic supporters would favour amateurism or prefessionahsm. At first the meeting appeared to be greatly in favour of a "cash" club, but. on the benefits of being affiliated to the N.Z.A.A. being pointed out. the feeling of the meeting drifted towards an amateur club. * » * Another meeting has since been held, and the question has been decided in favour of amateurism by (?4 to 4. Officers have been elected as follows — - President, Rev C. C. Harper vicepresidents. Messrs. Louisson, Harden Abraham, and H. F. Gibbons secretary, Mr. Rush treasurer. Mr Burbush committee, Messrs. Wvhe. Mahon. Cooper. Gibbons and Hume. * ♦ * A meeting was held on Wednesday, the oth instant, when it was decided to form a Wednesday football team. It is pleasing to note the enthusiasm m favour of athletics that now prevails here. It is to be hoped that this is something more than " a flash in the pan." and that the athletes of Palmerston, who have long been dormant have now awakened with the determination to retrieve the high position they once held in the athletic world Mr. Pirani's announcement that he will not be a candidate at the next general election came as a surprise to most people. The main mic of con-

\ ersation now is. who is going to put up for the seat. It is generally understood that Mr W. T. Wood, the present mayor of the borough, will be the nominee of the Seddon Government w Jule the names of two well-known solicitors Mr H S Fitzheibeit and Mi (' A. Loughnan. are also mentioned as hkelj candidates. A good joke is goni' the rounds vi connection with the puiohase of lemounts for South Africa A ceiwn ofhoal of the Stock Department accosted a guileless native, riding a likeh soit of horse on a country mad. 1,0 \ou want to sell that horse?" asked the ofhoer. Oh y e &." answered the Maori, but he no look well." 'Oh. he looks all nerht " said the officer i il give you £20 for him " 'Right \ou are " 'said the Maori, but I tell you he no look well." The bargain was completed, and the mone> paid o\er Shortly afterwards the officer again accosted the native, and this is what took plaw (adjectives omitted) — The officer 'You scoundrel, you sold me a horse with one eye blind I "Well" said the Maori, "I tole you he no look well" ■**■*■ At the fall in" call of Palmerston North's (juota of the Ninth Contingent, lust prior to their departure for Auckland, it was found that one of the seekers after De Wet was mi^sme so orders were promptly given for one of the leserve men io be seait for But fortune did not favour the latter for no sooner had he clothed himself in khaki and got his kit to the railway station than Wandering Willie" put in an appearance. All sorts of theories are advanced as to his delay but it is understood there was a w oman m it. -♦ ♦ * An amusing story is going the rounds concerning the sober head of a Palmerston household. It seems that pater famihaa. who i& the regular pink of propnotv on arriving home the othei afternoon found a telegiam addressed as he thought, to himself. He therefore tore it open. and. to his amazement read 'Meet me at tiam tonight — Billy " * ¥ * Being at a loss to understand who Billy" was. he set off with the full intention of having a real good time with l"s unexpected acquaintance Imagine his disgust when, after the train had arrived fully half-an-hour no one was left near the precincts of the railwa\

station sa\ c a hand&ome member of the fair sex and, still further, on arriving home lie got ''the rounds of the kitchen" for interfering with that which not his own. The aforesaid wire was meant for his son and was signed "Tilly " but the short-sightedness oi the paternal guide mixed" matters, up somewhat * ♦ * Seen in Palmer&ton the other day A man riding a bike, and leading five horses by a rope. It is a common thing m this, district to notice drovers mounted on bicycles driving sheep and cattle, and dairymen now employ the '"iron steed" to muster their cows. Truly. the bike is supplanting the geegee.

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