PALMERSTON NORTH.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5359, 31 May 1878, Page 3

PALMERSTON NORTH.

; ’ ’ (prom our own correspondent). . • , { : ; • ■ ... May 20. i Messrs. Brogden’ and Sons' .'machinery at the To Matai mills, consisting of - two engines, ’■tee., were' sold ■ by auction yesterday, and realised £l5O. ' The buyers .were Messrs.. Bailey Bros., of Feilding and Mai’ton. The sheds and various tools, &0., were then put xxp and realised,about £50.. .., I hear that Mr. Lovelock, of Napiex 1 , has bought out Mr. Fowler’s laud, consisting of about'7B acres land, cleared and laid down in English grass. ‘ The, price is said to be £IOOO. This makes the: fourth property which has changed hands iu the last ten days, all at good prices..,, ;. ~...... f;yj.r 'r; >jt. ■. ; ;■ i , A xnan, whose name has not been: ascertained, slipped off the platform of one of the railway carriages between Fox-dell and Turakina on Monday last, but from latest accounts it appears that he escaped without any serious inixxrv,. ... . -

' An inquest was held on Monday, .on the body of Mrs. Blixt, of Stoney Creek, before Dr. -Eockatrow, coronoi - for this district,! Tho jury’s vex'diot was that she died from natural causes,.j;i-.-ii--•< if U.-,’uf.k7/ .(I .1. M’i.Sf i For thejlast two days the Wellington-Foxtbn coach has been ;up to time, and the mails have therefore-,afrivedi-regxxlarly.ui,lt is to be hoped that this will now continue ■to be the-ease. Uxifortrinatelyl the, trains, frbim Wanganui are not equally punctual,- being always-,-from half-an-hour to an hour and aihalf belxmd'thoir advertised time. -Ua 'i