PALMERSTON NORTH.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5034, 2 May 1878, Page 3

PALMERSTON NORTH.

' (FBO3I DUE OWN COBEESPONDENT.) ; ;r-i APiUI. 29th. We have 1 seine very good specimens of horseflesh in this district. Air. Hammond, of Eangitikei, backed an iron-grey mare belonging to him to trot from Schultz’s Hotel at Awahnri to the Clarendon Hotel at Palmerston North and back (a measured sixteen miles) within the hour, for £3O, the mare to carry thirteen stone. __The_ match,, came. .ofi.. this, mdfning.and the distance was done easily in five’minutes and thirteen seconds under the hour. This is within a very small fraction of eighteen miles an hour. Mr. Prosser, of Marten, was time-taker. The matter of the incorrectness of the census, which I mentioned in my communication to you of the 11th instant, has been taken up by the authorities,- and’l understand that there is to be on official inquiry into it. There are no signs of the Government barracks in this town being converted into an hospital for. the district os yet,- although we were informed-some time since that the building was to bo given to the Corporation for : that purpose. ’ "A - • You will doubtless have heard from Wanganui before this that Fisher and Coker, lately storekeepers in this town, have been sentenced to six mouths’ imprisonment each for conspiring to defraud their creditors,- -It is to be hoped that this, will act as. a salatary warning to others; as bankruptcy seems to be looked upon by many in this celony merely as a means of making money. - • ~ Although the railway Is not yet opened to Wanganui, the superintendent at that end appears to have-taken charge'of'the whole line, 1 very much to-the detriment of this section—that is to say, from Pox ton, to Halcombe. , Under: our superintendent (Mr. A. Moinet) the arrangements were always satisfactory to tho public-; bat there are already a great many complaints against the new order ?* voings. - "A petition that Mr. Moinet should he retained, in,his .present position is-being numerously signed,-- and will I trust bo acceded to, . In spite of the delay in opening the line to Marion, communication between the two places is becoming more general. - -On Friday last a, large party from. Palmerston was present at the very-pleasant hall given by the bachelors of Marion, and to-day a considerable S? ar * :on came down to see the trotting match. -■ ; ,