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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 324, 28 January 1908, Page 4

Mr W. T. Wood, M.P., is going further in the matter dealt with in our eiitorial on the Trunk Line stopping places yesterday

It was recently stated that there were a large number of houses vacant in Palmerston. As a matter of fact there are very few, and the demand is great. It has been suggested that artesian water should be used fcr the proposed oaths, so as to save the drain on the water supply which the frequent emptying of the baths that should be the rule would entail. The Palmerston Rifles had a useful march out round the Square last evening when they were put through by staff Sergt. -Major Peacock. Capt. Mounsey, and Lt. Louisson were in command. The following handicaps have been declared for the P.N. A.S.O.'s race of 75 yds to be held on Wednesday next at the baths at 6 p.m. :— Woolwright scr., K. Tait 4secs, McGregor Bsecs, T. Callanan 9secs, M. Miller 9secs, D. Park lOsecs. A correspondent points to what he regards as the urgent necessity for the placing of latrines in the Square. There are already urinals, there but something more is required in view tof the numbers of people who come to town on sale and other days.

It is fully expected, says the Eketahuna Express, that the' butter and cheese factories in the Eketahruna district will be compelled to close down at least six weeks earlier this season than last, owing to the curtailment of the milk supply consequent on the depletion of grass by the recent bush fires.

Scene, a Palmerston barber's shop; time, 8 p.m. Enter a popular sergeant of police wearing incipient—very incipient—whiskers on a face normally kept bare. Sergfc.: "Will you give me a shave, please?" "Certainly, if you'll gaurantee no policeman will come in and summon me for shaving you after hours!" Exeunt a laughing officer who had, like the mere ordinary unshaven, forgotten that he was suggesting a felony.

Mr Harry Muller received a letter from Mr Tait yesterday stating that Madame Clara Butt and concert party had definitely decided to give a concert in Palmerston. The date praotically arranged is February 25. Prices will be a guinea and 10s 6d, and the box plan will be opened at Mr Park's on February 17. Booking will commence at Feilding, Foxton, Woodville and Dannevirke, on February 13.

We recently chronicled that a meeting of shareholders in the Levin Co-operative Dairy Company had decided to commence proceedings to have two. directors of the company removed from the directorate allegedly owing to their election being invalid as a large number of shareholders' votes had been illegally disallowed. ,: The committee appointed by the meeting has commenced proceedings, and the case will be heard here shortly.

The Woodville Examiner s.ays the flroa have very seriously affected the scenery of the Gorge. Where a fortnight ago there was green foliage, reaching away up the hillsides, there are now wastes of blaokened stumps and shrubs. Mr Wesley Woolhouse states that a resident of Ashhurst has offered to find men to plant trees and shrubs on the burnt patches if the Government will find the seed.

Palinerston's Mayor is not alone in his troubles with a council. According to the Otago Daily Times " the Mayor of North-East Valley, a delightful and salubrious suburb, has informed the ratepayers that the -town clerk has refused to shake hands with him, that councillors had shaken their fists' at him, denounced him as a liar, and left him without a quorum; that the altitude adopted by these same councillors was that of a "snarling, harking dog" ; and that a dog show and a bull fight (both of which, by the way, he had witnessed in England) were as nothing to a meeting of the North-East Valley Borough Council."

It is reported that some people got rather a painful surprise regarding the attempted capture of an alleged burglar on Saturday evening (says the Dannevirke Press). The neighbors saw a man in a certain house while the owner was away, and therefore warned the police. The

"foorce" at once valiantly strode to the scene of the snspected depredation, and discovered[that man apparently, red-handed. The " burglar" made not the slightest attempt to escape, and on being requested to place himself under arrest he defied the right of the constable to remove him, as he was the husband of the lady owner of the house and claimed, therefore, to have a perfect right on the premises. A photograph on the mantle piece confirmed his statement and the constable departed. A considerable ,crowd had assembled for the purpose of witnessing the fun.

The Hon. the Minister for JLabour lias decided to effect several changes in the Labour Journal, commencing with the January issue, 1908. In future the decisions of the Oonrt will be published in a separate journal, and will include awards, agreements, recommendations, of Conciliation Boards (claims of Unions), interpretations of awards and agreements, enforcements of awards and agreements, permits to under-rate workmen, and all important decisions affecting the Oonciliation and Arbitration Act, awards of the Court, or industrial agreements. The Labour Journal itself will contain, we are told, "the monthly labour reports from all parts of the Dominion, statistics re persons assisted by the'departmental bureaux, the latest legal decisions affecting the factories, shops and offices, scaffolding, workers' compensation for accidents, and other acts vitally affecting the employers and workers of the Dominion. It will also contain legal decisions UDder labour legislation abroad, and general articles selected from newspapers and the world's magazines on matters of interest to workeis and employers alike."