PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 102, 23 January 1908, Page 9

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

; (PIIOII oun SPECtAI, COtUtr.SrONDENTS.) 4 " PALMEIISTON. The town yesterday was again enshrouded > in denso smoke, and at intervals it was " almost impossible to see across the Square, i Throughout the day the smoke was most, r painful to the eyes. The fire still continues • to carry on its work of devastation in tho " Mauawatu Gorge. '< In spite of the heavy smoke a number of i picnic parties with heavy hampers set out j. for the. scene, of the fire. Some remained • there to face tho music until the evening train, while, others availed themselves of the ' first opportunity to return, finding tho s smoke quite thick enough here without going ; further afield. . . j The curtain has been rung down oil the ,> prospective grant of £10,000 for the Car- • negie monumental library, for Palmerston, '• as Mr. Carnegie, in a letter received by the Borough Council on Tuesday evening, • de- '» dined to entertain the request. If the '> matter is taken up energetically there is no I' reason why the uecessary amount caunot lis raised locally. -j t SHANNON. ■ Light rain fell all Tuesday morning, but > not sufficiently to affect tho district niateri--11 ally. The weather is much coldor. 'i Mr. A. Rawlo has been appointed secrc- " tary to the Shannon Bowling and Lawn ') Tonnis Company, Limited. ; On Tuesday afternoon considerably over l two hundred people, including many settlers > from tho surrounding district, attended the funeral of tho late Air. Patrick Martin. I Tho largo and representative cortege tcst-i- ---• fied to tho high esteem in which the deceased i was held. l ; OTAKI. At the Court yesterday, P. J. Power, for , being drunk and disorderly, was lined .CI and - costs, and for indecent behaviour a similar - sum. For drunkenness and assault William ; Quill was sentenced to two months' imprisoni nieiil. ; GpOD TEMPLARS. Brother Staples, C.T,, presided over a well- , attended meeting of the Pioneer Lodge, No, ; 11, 1.0. G.T., held in the Rechabite Cham- . hers, Manners Street, on Monday evening. . Two new members were initiated, and one , proposed for membership. Alter the nsuul , routine business, Drother Thompson gave a ; very interesting and inslrurlivc address, . one nf » sf'fius of leet.urel tcs giving answers . to some of the objections tu voting no-. , license