DISTRICT NEWS. IN THE MANAWATU.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1908, Page 7

DISTRICT NEWS. IN THE MANAWATU.

SCARCITY OF WATER. [Bi Teleobaph.— Spjsctai, to Tub Post.J PALMERSTON N., This Day. Ths borough authorities have jfound it necessary to conserve the -town water--supply by reducing the pressure. Today it was found that there was ,no overflow from the Tjritea Dam, so that the tov^n is using more water than i$ going into the reservoir. Tns borough council has decided td commence an action against tho Palmerston Gas Company to test tho validity of tho agreement giving the company a monopoly of the lighting ser- . vice.' v t | OTAKI MATTERS. ! OTAKI, This Day. Three prohibition orders were issued against local residents yesterday, making about the twentieth for the town. Father Cognet, of Opunake, has been, appointed parish priest here, being an addition to the present number. Father Hurley, well-known locally, has been transferred to St. Patrick's College, Wellington. Mrs. Jennan, a well known resident of Levin, die<i in the Otaki Hospital ya^terday. Miss Burns, an invalid, of Shannon, also succumbed at the institution on the same day. Both were only recently admitted. - Grass fires are proving disastrous, and are breaking out in various directions. Rain, which the Maoris contend will not come till March, -is badly needed. A number of visitors, were present yesterday from Wellington and district viewing the sections to be sold by Mr. Byron Brown «t Wellington on Wednesday.