FOXTON.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5150, 25 September 1877, Page 3

FOXTON.

(from our own correspondent.) The vacancy in the Council caused by the resignation of Mr. Liddell has been filled by the return of Mr. Loudon, who promises to become a useful member. ' At an adjourned meeting of the Council held last night at the instance of the member for Kiwitea, but who missed the train and so did not attend, a rate of 6d, in the £1 was was proposed and carried, and as there was a balance of £2lO estimated income unappropriated, that sura was voted for the Kiwitearoad. On Friday last the Choral Society gave the first concert of the present season, and presented half the net proceeds to the school recreation fund. On Thursday and Friday Mr, Lee held the annual examination of the Foxton school. From a conversation I had with him, he appeared to be satisfied with the result. Seventeen children passed Standard 1., 15 passed Standard 11., 7 passed Standard 111., and 1 passed Standard IV. The school lias suffered much from fever, but is now pulling up again. You mentioned in a local that the Licensing Bench had very properly refused a license to another house in this township. With two hotels never half full, and three boardinghouses always half empty, another hotel was by no means required. In these small townships there are generally double the number of public-houses that are wanted. There are four hotels in Palmerston, and there is plenty of drunkenness.

There was an inquest last week at Palmerston on the body of a man who had, when under the influence of drink, been thrown from his horse into a waterhole, in which he was suffocated. When the barman of the hotel at which the inquest was held was called on to give evidence he was so drunk that the Coroner had to give him in charge.