PALMERSTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1039, 31 January 1911, Page 2

PALMERSTON NOTES.

HEAVY DAY FOR MAGISTRATE,

(From Our Special' Corresnondent.i ' Palmerston January 30. The Terrace ;End School Committee is making arrangements for a school excursion to Plimmerton on February 3. Mr. T. Watson has been appointed enumerator for the counties :.of. Kiwitca Oroiia, Pohangina,-'. and the borough of ' Folding, for the census, and will also collect the agricultural returns for tha samo'districts. Mr. -.'Watson" "has--pre-< viously acted in a. similar capacity. ■ The -riewlyformed- -Cycle- - Glub - hcld its opening run on Saturday afternoon, when about twenty riders took part, Tho Hon. J. D. Brown, JI.L.C.;- Attorney and Solicitor-General of Victoria, and his brother, Mr. Vigor Brown, were in Paliperstoii on Saturday. Considerable interest was manifested in. the match for tho Yates' Feathe'rs on, the Palmerston- bowling green ■on Saturday afternoon, in which a team' from tho Terrace End Club,. comprising Messrs. P. Sollitt, A. Harris,' B. Martin, and E, Sollitt (s.), challenged tho ■ holders, Messrs. Russell, Wilson, A. Pickering, •and.Lasker (s.). After, a pleasant. contest, the holders retain tho trophies by 16 points to 10. A Palmerston rink has now challenged the holders.'- ' "

There, was a big list at the A Police Court to-day, the magistrate (Mr; A. D. ' Thomson) sitting tho whole'day right up to fi o'clock to-night. A number of jninor cases, such as breaches of the bordugh by-laws, inebriates, etc., figured, list. A youth named"Alfred Smith, was fined £o for using improper language in a railway carriage at. Longburn. : The magistrate remarked that it there had been any ladies in the carriage he would have sent. Smith to gaol without the option of a fine. young man named Joseph Russell pleaded guilty to a charge of doing damage to a hay rake on New Year's' Eve, and was fined 10s. • and costs, and ordered to pay the.cost of . tho damage (.£2). Marian Grey, C. .Fen- . ton, and Adolph. Goldfinch were ?ach 'sen-- . tencefl to a month's ' imprisonment on j charges of disobeying orders for the main-'*'-tenance of their children, all to be released on. payment of arrears owing. An order for;'7s. per week was made-' against! T. E. Green for the'maintenance of hia'y son in the.-All-Saints'-Children's-Home. «: "For foiling to make, returns under, the-,' Land and ..Income ,Tax t Act, Jesse .Hills was fined .'and' costs. 1 A 'charge ofw, cruelty- to a number of cows' (which it was -alleged- Pearce had left in -a pad- , (fock for'some days- withdut sufficient - food), brought'by the" Society for tha Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was • dismissed, it being proved'that' defendant' did not khow that. tho paddock was' so . bare. Also a number of witnesses stated that .there was. more feed; in; the paddock; than had been stated by :tho! society. The charge against the young man Hamiltonfor attempted rape on a girl. 13 years of ' age on . the. Beach Road, at Foxtoh, was heard' in camera. After evidence, accused pleaded guilty, and was remanded for sentence at the Supreme Court at Palmerston . North, on Monday-next, 'when'it-'is expected the Chief Justice will be on the bench. Four flaxmill hands here were .charged with playing "two up" at Shannon on a recent Saturday afternoon. Three of ■ thecases were dismissed, "but in'' : the fourth Alexander Thompson was convicted and fined . .£5 arfd costs. - SubInspector O'DonovaD appeared 'for the police in all the_ cases. The men O'Loughlin and Bittossi.. charged with - having counterfeit coins :and moulds for. making counterfeit coins, were further remanded till Wednesday. • Detective Hill,, of -Napier, . is/in- Palmerston investigating ' a case of ' alleged sheep, stealing,at Dannevirke.* It is understood " that .a--number: of'..the ,missing • sheep were recovered at Buuiylhoros' ves- . terdiiy. ' .