PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 192, 8 May 1908, Page 3

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

(FKOM 0011 6PECIAL CORIir.fIPOKEKNXS.), . 1 ' PALMERSTON. • Local land agents are now more cheerful as there aro numerous inquiries for land here, and more especially along tho Main Trunk line.' Mr.- M'Alister, contractor, has just about r " completed his task of romoving the old g' post office, which will be made use of as offices for tho Stock Department. " \ FEILDING. - At tho Feilding Court yesterday morning u . Mr. T. Watson, of. Electors, applied for a certificate authorising him to 5 . strike off tho electoral roll for the Oroua d electorate a list of 113 names of persons who had left the electorate or otherwise disqualified themselves from voting in this electof rate. The Bench (Messrs. Trewin and John ' Cobbe, J.P.'s) ruled'that they had no.juris- | diction, as the Act stated a magistrate should issuo the certificate, and the interS pretation of "magistrate" was given 'as 0 "stipendiary magistrate." , They would be s willing to issue a certificate stating what v had been done at, this Court. The Registrar accepted this. ' i. The following notes appear in-last night's' "Star":—A party of v Feilding sportsmen, comprising several guns, who went up tho Main Trunk lino after. pigeons came back, to town disgusted with the result of tlieir. expedition. - There were ;plcnty of pigeons in a sight—thousands of them—but they were up ) at the top of the trees after tho late-ripen-b ing- berries, and could not be got at. Those t that .fell to the guns were, to quote .the :l shootists, "as: thin as'rakes." It is oxs pected they, will be in, good condition' in t about six weeks. A local man who was out f Hunterville way the other day reports that s pheasants are very plentiful there. 1. ' , t ' -SIASTEETON. * The cost of the Masterton municipal elecr tion was £63 Os. -Od., against £80 Is. 4d. last } year. . } Miss Lizzie M'Kenzie, daughter of Mr. f and Mrs. J.' M'Kenzie, of -Te Whiti, died ' yesterday, aged 27 years. Miss M'Eenzio had been ailing for somo considerable time, j Several charges■of theft were heard bef fore Mr. •W. P. James, 5.M.,, yesterday. J Henry .Rooks and Frank Hurndell were ! charged with the theft of a sack 'of pota- • toes, the property of Charles Anketell. Tho ' hearing: of the case occupied three hours. ' The Magistrate said there was little. doubt ' r but that Rooks had been connected with the I theft, but the evidence was hardly strong . enough to convict, and both accused were ' dismissed. A sitting of the Juvenile Court j was held, when two boys were charged with J tile theft of various parts of bicycles. Both ' pleaded-guilty, and were ordered to receive ■ six strokes of'the birch. The father:of-'ono J of the accused was charged "'with receiving ' part pf tho stolen goods, namely a wheel, ' knowing the same to .be ..dishonestly. ,ObJ tained. The case was dismissed, ;tho Magis- : trate ■- remarking that carelessness only had, ■ been proved and 110 criminal knowledgo. | - The Major,, Cup, hockey matches were .com-' \ menced yesterday (says'a Press-Association message), when the' W.F.C.A. A team beat * Y.M.Cf.A. by two goals to one. Carterton A team beat W.F.C.A. B team by seven goals • to nil; and Knox beat Carterton B by fivo " goals to nil. , I , PAHIATUA. , '. . The annual .of Mayor took place on, Wednesday evening, when Mr. : David Crewe was installed for the fifth year J' in succession. » .. . . . >. ■ A meeting of Opposition supporters was J held' on Wednesday night - at. the! Olympic Theatre. Sixteen, delegates were' appointed to attend a: conference at Woodville to select j a candidate for the district. The Woodlands;-Hunt Club had a successful if* damp run of four and a half miles over the Bloomfields Estate, Woodvilio, ,on Wednesday. . The- weather was wet and boisterous., ;,; ; . . ' CARTERTON: ' . His Worship the Mayor, Mr. Willie, Moore, was installed for. his second term of office by Mr,, Hart, deputy Town Clerk, on Wednesday, ovening, and was heartily congratulated, by ,tho councillors present on the-success: bf'his -past'year's work.--- _ The'record bag of ducks obtained on tho lake so far this season is 134, with 14 swans. This bag was secured by -T. ■ Skipago and a party., of■ four last Sunday. ~ . The sum of £35 was distributed among, tho members of tho Carterton Riflo Vplunt-ecrs at their parade on Wednesday ovening, as payment for their services during the last Easter manoeuvres. Two recruits were sworn,- in. FEATHERSTON. ' ' A farewell social is to bo tendered to tlio Rev. T. J. Smith and Mrs. Smith' by tho ' parishioners of St. John's Church, on May . 22. The.annual meeting of the church, t-o have-been. held on Wednesday last was adjourned . until the above dato owing to the weather." ' ' The Paka -Koura -Hockey Club has decided not to affiliate .with thie Ladies' Hockey Association. , 'Mr. H. A. Lamb, audit inspector, has just completed, an inspection of tho books of local bodies here. ; . - <, -. Mr. .A.. 0.'.-Holms,'late of this town, and now. of Vancouver, British Columbia, lias been laid up for a couple of . weeks with ptemaine poisoning. x- . . The, health of Mrs. ■ Greatbatch, sen., of Featherston, is causing her friends aiixiety..