PALMERSTON NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1164, 27 June 1911, Page 2

PALMERSTON NEWS.

IBy Telccrauli.-nDcclal CorrcEnoiidont.) Palmcrston North, June 2(i. Latest advice Irani I.nuuco&ton states Unit .Mr. Uai'i'.v J'almcr, a wcll-kuutyn resident of rnlincr.slon, who is lying ill in Hint city, is progrcfsiiii, , well towards recovery. Jlr. Joseph Hammond, the aviator, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis in Hie PalnuTston Hospital, ie mailing a nood recovery. At the Police Court to-day, before Sir. A. JJ. Thomson, S.M., John Mauglian was liiied .£25 and costs on each of two charges cf in a local hotel. A man named Peter Jlroivn was fined £2 for f-traliiur a pair of bouts, in default li days' iuilirisonmciit. Jamos Duncan was fined a similar amount for u certain act. Peter Murphy was ordered to payJi2 per month, off the arrears of maintenance, for his eon, these arrears amounting to £21. A number of cyclists were ordered to pay fines and costs (nmoiinling to 17s. each) for riding without lights. A charge of negligently driving a molor-car brought by A. W. α-iliiclian against A. P. Schlogor, was dismissed wilhout calling on tho defence. There was a good attendance at tho monthly meeting of the Pnlmcrston Ministers' Association to-dny, the Rov. Mr. Hinl presiding. It was'asrecd to discuss (at the' monthly meetings) Mr. W. L. Walker's book "The True Christ," and the llev. Mr. Rockctt was appointed to open the discussion. In connection wilu, the forthcoming conference, proposed to bo held in Palmerston North on September ID, in furtherance of the liritish and Foreign liililo Society's propaganda, the secretary was instructed to write to the Itev. Mr. Spencer expressing the willingness of the association to undertake, tho organisation of the conference, aiid asking for certain information. ;U All Saints' Sunday Schoolroom on Saturday afteriMon tho Itev, 11. G. Hoschor, on behalf of the collectors for tho Melnnosian Mission, made a presentation of a framed photograph of Uishop Wallis to .Mr. M'Kellar, who lias l>ccu treasure: - of the fund in this parisli for thirty years. The Itev. Mr. Reseller afterwards gavo an address on opium inChina. Tho local Liedcrtafel has arranged to give the first concert of tho present soason on July 11. A spocia.l programme is being rehearsed, and the concert is to bo under tho baton of Mr. 11. E. Guntor. There were quite a number of butter buyers in Valmerston on Saturday negotiating with different factories for the supplies which they arc holding in cool stores. It is lejnrted that up to Is. 2Jd. is being offered. Tho Finance Committee of tho Manawatu A. and P. Association met on Saturday, and put in most of tho day considering applications for the secretaryship, over one hundred of the-'o having come in. The committee continued its work to-day, and will renort to tho Gen- ■ era! Committee on Tuesday. A Pnlmerston resident," Mr. H. Cameron, was admitted to the hospital yesterday suffering from injuries to hig shoulder, caused by a fall through a. ladder slinning. An nlarm was sounded on the fireMls about 8.-15 this mnrning, am! the Firo ■Brigade turned out promptly, only io finil. however, that they wtp'o'l a fairly fals-o errand. It npp*ars that Hie smoVn from a traction encine vns mistaken for a fire in a residence at Terrace End.