PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1052, 15 February 1911, Page 11

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

, (*:jm Our Own Correspondent.) A horse in a trap driven by two hdi6s; took fright- at one of the brass bands inarching from the railway station on Monday morning, with tho result that tho vehiclo was capsized and tho ladies thrown out. -The ladies did not suffer any "• hurt, and the trap was littlo damaged." ■ ; ' ■.•■ : . A-tennis match between Bunnythorpo and Terraea End Clubs on Saturday was von liy .the latter's team by 83 ganws to .28., ' ■■.■'..■•-■■' »"' ; . ■' ' At the Palmerston l»wling green on Saturday a Woodville team, consisting of Messrs. Tyerman, Kose, Gothard, and Nieolson played tho holders of tho Dixon, Challenge Cup, Messrs. Batch«lor, Brophy, Eeid, aud-Taskor. The latter re-tained-tho-cup by 21 points to IC. At the Police Court on'Monday 4 before Mr. A. D. Thomson. S.M., a number of cyclists were fined; for breaches - of, by.us. ■ A cabman was mulcted in 20s. and costs for leaving his cab unattended, and a man was fined for'driving round a corner nt a faster puce than a walk. --' • Tho inspector of factories sued tho Palmer6ton Borough Council for an allegsd breach of the Factories Act in failing to register tho Opera Home, it being a placo where electric power is generated, ciiarge being laid und*r Section' 2 of ot, to. tho effect that every buildinj or placo in which electric energy'is generated or transformed as an illuminator or motive power for trade or for sale must 'be registered as a factory. His Worship suggested' that as the case involved a good many legal, points it would bq better N to adjourn it to enable tho Labour Department to bs represented by counsel, If was a- matter that would have to bo argued from a legal point of view. This Was agreed "to, and the case was. accordingly adjourned to February 27. Frederick Allan Richards, charged With stealing-ten sheep, the property of Barber 8r05.. , of Wellington, was further remanded till Monday next, bail being allowfd—accused in JCIOO and one surety of .cioo.. : : .. " - .. ■ •