PALMERSTON BAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1361, 12 February 1912, Page 3

PALMERSTON BAY BY DAY.

4 !lij Telccrnnh - SrerM: CVrnsnnndect.' Palmcrston N., February 11. Some week.s souk; I;ii.i ;ui runnins v.xro 'found in a sack in s>;,i.e scrub on tha l-'uxtoii lino near and tho polite have boin invL"&( ij,-atins tiio matter. 'Xii_- remains were supposed to be those ot a Maori, out ininiiiies at aii the itaari pas in U;e have [ailed tj throw any iighl on the matter, and iho majiir-'iiale -gave tii'ders to nave the tones illicit', il. it is intcned that 'ho be ties • were being rcr/.ved from one Maori c::::t.\ory to another, and for some reason unexplained were- ielt at the s;:ot where they were found some time hack. At the i'olicc Court y<*:cri!.iy, Air. A. D. Tit::!. sMi, H.M., gave rest, it; d jiui.vnicnt in ilic case in which Matthew Connelly was charged that, being a bookmaker, be did bet on the t'oxton racecourse on January 20. His Wor.ship remarked that he had felt considerable difficulty in coining ,to a proper interpretation of the section of the Act governing the case. In giving judgment for the defendant, ho admi'.ted that a considerable aiiiount might bo .said on both sides, but I lie defendant was entitled to the benefit of the doubt, as there was no evidence that after he acquired the status of a bookmaker ho continued bcttii'sj, and therefore the case would be dismissed. The magistrate also gave his reserved judgment in-the case of the Inspector of Factories against Burroughs and Kelleher for a breach of the hotel workers' award, in not having become members of the Cooks' and Waiters' Union. The defendants were, on and before October 1, 1910, when the hotel workers' award came into operation, in the employ of the licensee of the Cafe tie Paris Hotel and the Central Hotel, and had continued in the same employ up to the hearing of the case. Neither was on October 2 a member of the Cooks' and Waiters' Union, and neither had become a member since, though the award had been in operation about four months. His Worship said that they were therefore clearly breaking Sub-Section (e) of Section 11 cf the award, which compelled them to join the union within seven days after the award came into force. He had to take the award as he found it, and each defendant was fined 20s. and costs. The Palmerston contingent of the Territorials left by special train yesterday for the camp at Oringi. In response to a numerously signed request, Mr. J. A. Nash has consented to stand again for the Mayoralty of Palmerston. It is generally understood that Mr. Nathan will also be a candidate. Quite a large number of Palmerston residents, nearly a score of them, have booked passages for a trip to England in April next. All arrangements in connection with the .pageant fair in aid of the funds of the High and Technical Fcbcols are well forward. The fair, which has been organised by the Mayoress, promises to be one of the biggest and most successful functions of the kind held in Palmerston. A rink from the MasVrton Bowling Club journeyed to Palmerston yesterday by motor-car to play the holders of the Dixon Challenge Cup. The visitors, who were skipped by Mr. F. Harrison, were successful in defeating the holders, skipped by Mr. F. J. Taskerl The Pnlinerslon Brass Band left for Gisbarnc by yeslerdny afternoon's train to take part in the North Island Band Association's contest. At about 2.110 o'clock this afternoon the firebell sounded an alarm. The cause proved to be a burning hay-shed at the corner of Train Street and . Boundary Road, belonging to Mr. A. Gardiner, a local dairyman.