PALMERSTON NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 776, 28 March 1910, Page 2

PALMERSTON NEWS.

(By Telegraph.-Snecial Correspondent} ..''. Palmerston, March 26. A hockey club has been formed a£<' Aokautere (Fitzherbert East). / Fourteen attended the meeting when the olub was formed, and Mr. J. Hughes was elected oaptain. The first practice was held in Mrs. Ingley's paddock on>',. ■• Wednesday afternoon. After the gatna tho ladies provided afternoon tea which, needless to say, was greatly oppreciatecL, The Manawatu Goif Club will hold ita. ■ annual meeting on April 6. The olub : • has had a most successful'year," and tho balance-sheet shows'a substantial sum to credit, and this, too, after a ; large expenditure on the new course and ■•■ a number •• of . debentures;! The services of Mfi Gilbert Martin, of ':■': the Wellington: Golf,. Club, hav6. been:.." secured to coach- players, and, >.a's he is •: considered about the best. teacher' of- • golf in the Dominion, players should .; make good headway under his tuition;, The Ladies'' Club'hold ..their annual' ; meeting on April 4;' . The Palmerston. Gun Club held « match, on the old racecourse when trophies presented .by ...Messrs.!. Hallenstein Bros., W. Turner; and. J. : . Wishart were competed for. Something . like'forty competitors took part,in the match, and the trophies were won by Messrs. M. Burmeister, C. Vase, .and; C; Adams. '' Mrs. J. Rawlins, of the Whits/ House, entertained members ■ of- St. John's Ambulance Nursing Division at! the Kiosk, on Victoria' Esplanade, at afternoon tea. - A pleasant time waaj spent, and Mrs. t. ■ Rawlins's jrihdnessl was much,appreciated. -. ; \>. .■ ;t .■:■,!• A cricket match between the locaU" lodge of Druids and the Phoenix Cricket -y Club was played oh the sports grorindY yesterday, and ended in a-win for tbe< Friendly Society.,by, sis runs.., In tha"-. .first innings, the Phoenix men were .dis* • posed of. for 19 runs, the.' bowling; of?. Watchorn proving very formidable. H«: secured seven wickets for 4 runs, while his brother, N. Watchorn, captured*tw4;/ for 9." In the second- innings',-tha Cricket Club put, on 124 , v (Bpon .'59, Cockroft 24). The lodge men in, their first effort scored 83 (G. Watchorn* 30j Simmohda 17, Wakelin' 16). 'In their 7 second essay they- notched 66 (Mitchell

At the' Magistrate's Court '.to-day,", : «jr.: mau named Wm.'Murray was fined or seven days', imprisonment, for using * obscene language'; ■■" . : ,' : '-'''.;. / A report, has been received from Mql Health Department to the effect that", it' does not consider it necessary that the new' saleyards, which the live stock "_ auctioneers.'pr6pose : td. ; .erect .in ;Pal« ' merston,' should be concreted: In the face of this report it. is; hardly-likely that the Borough /Council will persist in' its' demands that the yards should i be 'concreted. . -~.... :. : - . '.'•■ Sir E. O.Gibbes, Secretary for Educa-', tion, is taking part in.'the ..Palmerstot>", Club's ..bowling, tournament..