PALMERSTON NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 322, 8 October 1908, Page 2

PALMERSTON NEWS.

, (fKOSI OBK SPECIAL COBEESrONDENT.) • A man named Estar Wright pleaded guilty at the S.M. Court yesterday morning to the theft of £9 18s. 9d., his mate's wages, and was remanded for sentence till October 12. . Tho authorities of the Methodist ■' Church havo approved of the local executive's , proposal to sell the present church and grounds in Broad Street and erect a new church in Church Street. . The fund for the new church now totals £700. _ At a meeting of the Borough-Council on. Tuesday night, the health inspector complained that a scarlet fever patient had been discharged from the hospital during the peeling stage, with the result that another member of the same family had been attacked by-the fever. Yesterday Dr. Martin, who is in charge of the hospital, in a press interviow on tho subject, denied .that, the patient had suffered from scarlet fever, nor had any svinptoms of that disease been exhibited. The patient was kept in the hospital for four weeks under supervision. The second casein the same family, he said, was measles,.and,had been treated accordingly. Tho Manawat-u Mounted Rifles .went into their annual camp at the old racecourse , yes- . During the continuance of tho camp a series of instructive lectures will be given by officers, and the men will be subse-. quently cxercised in the subjects of tho.lecAn unexpected sequel - to tho recent golf tournament took place at the S.M. Court ve'sterday, when . numerous parents, ot caddies " who found remunerative employment on the links during the. tournament were charged with breaches of the school Attendance Act. Even tho youngster who had the distinction of carrying the VicoReeal brassies and putters'was not exempt from the law. His mother had .to pay, to-, gether with tho rest, two shillings as the penalty for her son's greatness.