PALMERSTON ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 8, 9 July 1912, Page 3

PALMERSTON ITEMS

(BX TSLKQBAPH — SPECIAL TO THX POX.) PALMERSTON N., Thia Day. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last night, Mr. Spooner brought forward a proposal to hold an industrial week in connection with the Winter Show similar to the Industries Week held in Wellington. After this had been discussed, it was decided that notice of motion.be given for next meeting of the council. Filters for the Palmerston North water supply from Tiritea are to arrive via Wellington in two shipments at the middle and end of the present month. The filters will be installed in the pipe from the Tiritea dam, the capacity of which is being very largely increased. [PEBSS ASSOCIATION.] NEW ZEALAND CATTLE FOR JAVA AUCKLAND, Bth July. The first shipment of dairy cattle for Java left this evening by the Westralia, one Shorthorn bull and 29 cows of various breeds having been purchased by Mr. P. L. J. Mulder in the Auckland district. Mr. Mulder explained that upon the arrival of the Westralia at Sydney the cattle will be placed on a lighter, because if once landed in Aus--traha he would not be allowed to take them to Java. From the lighter th* cattle in due course will be transferred to the Dutch steamer Waerwyck, and conveyed to their destination. It is estimated that by the tune they are landed in Java the cattle will have cost about £30 per head. COURSING PALMERSTON, Bth July. The Palmerston North Courßing Club to-night, with the co-operation of Auckland and Hamilton, formed a North Island Coursing Association, which will come under the rules of the New Zealand Association. THEFT OF A RACEHORSE , HAMILTON, Bth July. In connection with the theft of the racehorse Soultoria, Detective Hawkes and Constable Lander arrested .1 man about 35 years of age named Patrick Macmaueiman on the Hauturu-road, Waitomo, yesterday.' Macmaneinun was brought to Hamilton this afternoon for identification by a woman who 6aw a man leading the 'stolen horse through Whatawhata on the morning after the theft. AN ESTATE PURCHASED BY GOVERNMENT TIMARU, Bth 'July. Advice has been received that the Government has purchased the Ashwick Station, near Kimbell, Fairlie (550(1 acres agricultural and 2900 acres pastoral land), for settlement, to be opened next March. AUCKLAND EXHIBITION AUCKLAND, Bth July. Arrangements in connection with the Auckland Industrial, Agricultural, and Mining Exhibition, to be opened at the end of next year, are being held up by delay in securing an Order in Council conveying the necessary powers in relation to site, etc., A telegram ie being sent to-day by the secretary (Mr. W. R. Holmes) to the Secretary for Internal Affairs, anxiously enquiring when the Order in Council may be expected. The amount represented by the guarantees in connection with the Exhibitionnow totals £16,760. COMPULSORY TRAINING PALMERSTON, Bth July. The Palmerston Chamber of Commerce received 215 replies from other Chambers, local bodies, etc., to its circular resolution approving of Mr. Myers's attitude on compulsory service; 193 endorse the Palmerston Chamber's view, 22 passed no resolution, and' none passed any resolution against compulsory training. PASSIVE RESISTERS FINE" HAMILTON, Bth July. A batch of passive resistor*, chiefly from mining districts around Huntly, came before Mr. Loughnan, S.M., today for failing to attend camp. Many excuses were offered, but without avail, penalties from £2 or two monthe to a few shillings being imposed. ELECTRICITY CONTRACTS TIMARU, Bth July. The Borough Council to-night received two solicitors' opinions that it is free to make terms for electricity supply from Lake Coleridge for tramways, and are not prevented from doing ao, as some supposed, by the contract for current with Scott Bros, for street light and private consumption. STABBING CASE AUCKLAND, Bth July. This morning Annie Monaghan, a middle-aged woman, was arreeted at her house in Alexandra-street on a charge that on Saturday evening she stabbed a fisherman, John. Inkster, who had to be taken to the hospital with a deep knife wound in one of his thighs. The etabbing, it ie alleged, arose out of a quarrel which occurred in Monaghan's quaa*tem about 7 o'clock on Saturday evening. The wound appeal's to nave been inflicted by a pocket-knife, and is not considered of a serious character. Accused was remanded for a week.

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