PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 986, 29 November 1910, Page 9

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

' (By TclesrapH.'-Special 'CorrcsDondenU '" Palmerston-N.,'November'2B. ■ An ,°r t^ cr P'oneer settler, Mrs. Cather- "}?_ Mlyenzie, ielict of the late Kenneth at-h-enzie, has passed away. Deceased, who was 76 years of age, came to New r„ e -n ad ?'^ h her husband in tho year 18sJ, and soon afterwards settled at Stoney Creek, which was then dense bush. - oho.has resided there ever since. 'The. sons of- the deceased are Messrs. John Mlvenzie, of 'Bay ■°, f ,>■''Plenty; James, ■ Robert, Roderick, and Lachlan, of Palmcrston; Alex- ■?. n .a«lV,ofcieatheraton; Wil!ianiiUof-,-Mas-:tcrton; Kenneth, of Levin; and the daughters are Mrs. L. M'lntosh, Gis-borhe;--MrS. :K. Fraser, Tarauaki; Mrs. .C.rß.annister, Masterton; Mrs. J. Hastings, Palmevston; Mrs. D. Speedy, Kelvin Grove; and tho Misses E. and J. M'Kenzic, Greenhaugh. ' At a meeting of the committee of tho Military and Naval Tournament on Saturday mght (Captain Peach in the chair) a considerable amount of correspondence was read and dealt with. It was prin-' cipally from corps all over the Dominion seeking information about the tournament. Captain Palmer (hon. secretary) reported that'he had visited Wellington and interviewed the Prime Minister on various matters'connected with the tournament. Admiral Poore had roplied to a communication from the Prime Minister that it was highly probable a detachment would be sent from ono of tho warships' in Auckland. Railway concessions would be made to . troop's visiting the tournament- It was also reported, that Captain Richardson, director of artillery, had stated that it was mors than likely that all the artillery batteries in tho Dominion would be represented at the tournament. Mr. Thomas- Cook, a Hiwinui farmer, met with a fatal accident through his horses bolting while he was using a heavy Cambridge roller, the implement going over him. -Ho succumbed to his injuries at tho Palmerston Hospital yesterday. ' At the Police Court to-day, beforo Mr. A. D. Thomson, S.M., a man named Charles Gascoigno pleaded gnilty to a charge of selling meat which' had not been killed at a registered abattoir and was fined 20s. and costs 17s. Gd. Wilson Howard was brought up on remnnd on a charge of stealing a sheep-dog valued at ,£ls, the property of W. G. Oliver, of Papatawa. Accused was committed for trial. ■ The Mayor of Palmerston has invited the Governor to open tho National Sweetpea Show here on December 7. A little boy named Noel Yortt had his thigh broken yesterday through', a fall while' playing at his home. The Manawatu Mounted Rifles,go into camp for a week at To Matai on Wednesday next. The whole of the dairy companies throughout this and adjacent districts have been notified by the Labour Department that they must, in future pay wages forinirhtly instead of monthly, 'as has been tho custom with many of them in th« past. ■'■'.' The Taranaki Dairy Employees' Union has amalgamated with .the Wairarapa, Manawatu. and Wellington . Districts Union with' tho object of forming one strong union for the whole district named.