PALMERSTON.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1205, 5 April 1895, Page 16

PALMERSTON.

Palmerston North, April 1

Bishop Wallis has arrived here on his first visit to Palmerston. He preaches this evening at All Saints’ Church, ana an informal reception is to he held in the schoolroom.

The Manawatu Land Drainage Board has passed the following resolution: —“That the Board do not take steps to assume control of the drains in the district until the case Grant v. the Manawatu Road Board has been finally settled.” The law p6ifits involved in this case are to be Argiiecl'in Wellington. *' Mr G,. W'.' Bennett, bopkiiag clerk at thp. railway" station,' presented by tfee staff' with ej 1 writipgr(Jesk‘ as a token of theft estpepp ife bps beep transferred to ‘Mr W, H. MoKillop, a shunter on the Palmerston railway for the past five years, has been transferred to Manganoho. It has been decided by the Bulls School Committee to nominate Mr Fred. Pirani, M.H.R., for the vacant seat on the Wanganui Education Board. A special meeting of the Borough Council has been ‘ cWftea ( 'to‘o’bhsiHer the question of re-naniing th 4 townV : i h PAi/MEiisToP North, April 2.

At the Borough Council meeting tonight it was decided to insist oil the name of “ Manawatu ” if. the Alteration is to he made: It' was pointed’ out that' 1 Act gave the Minister n'6’’' opssA, to' refuse the name recommended'by the local authority’, the (^oyether 1 only being able to change the nAme ih the event of approval, oi*' refusal or neglect of the. local body 'tq, suggest a name: All- Saints’' eroded laqt night, when Bishop the; close o| 'topi'pladq hr, ihp schopirpom. The Key Bt. l£. ilaryey the Bishop apd Airs pallia, who were also cordially greeted by Mt K-Wikoft oft behalf of the laity. The Bishop,, in replying, acknowledged the warmth of the greeting he aftd his. wife had received in New Zealand. They had already learned to love the people, and the scenery, and the self-re-specting strength of some of the Colony’s legislation. He took occasion to express his appreciation of the work of the Rev H. B. Harvey, not only here, but in England, at Cambridge, and hoped that Mr Harvey (who leaves shortly for England! soon he back in this Celery. <• Archdeacon Towgood, of Marten, whd was alsp presphh yppke.a f&w/ \ir&rds,' : anct highly prafspd the ■wAtlA* fef ; ”the 'Rev H. B.' Harypy.. The {fathering iyas altogether vejey successful.. • ' The "Assessment Cpprf sai to-day, Mr E. A ; Is-M., presiding. - Anhmusually large cargo of stock was gent by to-day-a Wellington train. Mrs Matheson gave the second of her series of cookery lectures last night in the Presbyterian Hall. Bishop Wallis left for Marton to-day. He is to spend a fortnight here abon# the; time the Rev H. B. Harvey; Ipa.yegf ' c '' Mr J, Matrav.erih/bf 'Eeilding, son of pypy 1 •respected’cleyk of. the. Magistrate’s tp.Pdrt, was married at Ashufst yesterday to Miss Sarah of Wanganui.