PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 914, 6 September 1910, Page 9

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

(Bs Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) ' Palmerston, September's. Work on a skating rink in Palmerston; for Messrs. Fuller and Sons. w v as com- : iuencedon .Saturday. . The building will have a clear floor"i space' of ,130 feet by 70 feet, with'■ a. 30 feet. end. • There wi]! also be a number of dressing arid other rooms, and .the halL will bo !for -..picture shows when skating., is out 'of 'season. The floor- will, be. specially;'.'. constructed for rinking. ■'•.."'■' '.•'■.'■ At the Police Court to-day, before Mr. A.D. Thomson, S.M., a fishmonger named, Bartolos Barnaowas fined-. £2 at the instance, of the local Society for the Prevention of. Cruelty to Animals for cruelly neglecting fowls by keeping them- without food and -water. Evidence was given to the effect that about sixty fowls were penned'.in a small -yard, and besides having no food or. water; woro' without shelter during the recent wet weather. "A number of cyclists were mulcted for breaches of borough by-laws, the . fines amounting to about .£lO, . .-•'■..'■.-,■ Lieut.-Colonet Naylor gives a lecture to' the; Officers'. Club i here on; .Wednesday evening next. '".' . '.".'. i. About, tWehty Komatao .cricketers recently held a working "bee,"- and put' the cricket ground there into shape, for the ,coming season. _ There are ■ some really good players in the • . Vohajiginu Valley, who will give opposing teams "a warm'welcome" this season. ' The Palmerston Brass B.and, under Conductor Conway, rendered an excellent programme .of music, from the rotunda in the Square yesterday afternoon. A fairly large; crowd assembled, but a keen easterly wind made' things rather unpleasant. The band is making good progress,' an . improvement being' noticeable every time they play. They have hopes pf■ coming out in a creditable position at the band contests, which are to be held hero in February next.., , Adjutant Hay-ward; ■of the Salvation Army, who has had a .three weeks' keulth' sojourn at Rotorua, has retun ed to Palmerston., . . Tho success of -Mr. "Geoff" Watchorn in winning the welter championship at tho Australasian boxing contests at Auckland on Saturday was very gratifying to his many friend* here." Watchorn is recognised as a "real good sport," and is very popular in boxing circles here. It is understood that at the earnest solicitations of his relatives he will now retire from the ring. " Tho many friends of Mrs. .T. Fraser, sou., of Komako, will regret to learn that she is now in Palmerston suffering from a severe uttack of pleurisy.. The kitchen 'f a house occupied by Mr. W.' M'Conkey, in Grey Street, was gutted by fire at three o'clock Hiis morning.' The brigade saved the other portion of tho building.