PALMERSTON NORTH.

New Zealand Mail, 24 September 1902, Page 25

PALMERSTON NORTH.

(®j Our Special Reporter Y. • Friday. * M e Hart find tarcomßi to-day labernfed IS 000 trout fry in the- bead: waters, of tlie* Kawbaterawfia- river A very interesting and able lecturo W as delivered by tlie Bev E Jolly last evening on “The Manliness* of. tha Genius of Burns." It was the-* final lecture ot the term to the continuation class in Engr ]ish literature of the. District High meeting of the Mauawatu poultry Association will be. held, on next Tuesday even ng at the Fise>Bi-.gade Hall. A fowl thief, convicted at Foxton of robbing a hen roost, has- been, sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment.. Some sneak thieves have recently been visiting the ftw 1 yards in Palmerston. The balance-sheet of the recent season of “Utopia, Limited” was presented at a. 1 meeting of the Operatic Society last even., ing. This showed a satisfactory result in view of the great expense incurred in

staging the opera. Members of the society are now actively engaged- rehearsing, in "preparation for the production of: "Utopia, Limited” and ‘‘Mikado” during show week. Last evening the Mayor, Mr W. T. Wood, presided over a meeting- of ratepayers called to consider the proposal' tc barrow £36,000 for sewerage works- in the borough. Mt Wood explained the scheme and answered a number of cmestions. A motion, proposed by Mr JVM. Johnston and seconder by Mr Whatley was carried to the effect that the ineeti g approved the scheme, and that a poll he taken on the question. The remarkable way in which flip Bangit:kei river has widened its course since the settlement of the district is regarded J>y many as an object lesson of the effect of bush destructym. The Bangitikei river, for instance, was so confined in the early fifties that a stone could be thrown from one bank to the other. At the present time the distance from bank to bank is fully a mile. v

The Comm ttee of tbe District Tii«»iSchool requested the Education Hoard that, permission be granted to refuse admission to public school scholars who bad passed standard VI. owing to the poor accommodation at present available for the 112 students attending Ibo school. At a meeting of the committee last evening a communication was. read from the Board acceding to the request. The Dairy Commissioner, Mr ,T. A. Kinsella, addressed a large r " serin*' of farmers at Hunterville last eve : in <° at the invitation of the Eangitike' InsiTtute. Referring to the remarkable development winch has token place in tbe dairying industry m tlio colony Mr KinselJ* quoted some interesting figures. I>- the r y A ]IS sa \ d - orly exported 113.53 cwts. ot butter and cheese, valued at <£43 91 IT\L7Yr lat f Hie exnoTts bed tooreasmi inn- 143 ' 45 cwts - " ai t>ed at -£354,271-. In TJ 7 e exports bad reached 259.793 cwts roiTV/it• £90 . :, - 95 J- aad last season they reached the splendid- total 234 498 cwts" valued at J 21.140.747. Of the V-to 1" amount manufactured. Mr Kirseßa calculated that about ,£500.000 worth of produce was consumed in the To t! ? e clair Y produce exported lle ,^? ld add the export KflOO P ™T tS - Wa ' ch year stalled AdAOOO making a grand total of £1.67274. produced by New Zealand dairymen during last year. Mr Kto-lla reminded hi s hearers that wh : le the State could do much and had done much to foster rim isatinn r br ?Dd i-i bT in struct ion and organisation bring the produce to a high stanm/rs’ft frTea 1 t deal rested dairy farmers themselves.

train' 11 !?™ 1 ; 0 in 10 derailing of a ballast t am near the Makerua swamp traffic n the Mauawatu Itailway between Pol a]ly rS b 0 l“c,? n H d has-been^parti: /-7, blocked. The up train has not vet (midnight) reached Palmerston. J PALMERSTON, September 21. j.. r^ at ‘ nl terest is still being shewn in 9 n r d r« for ?he export poultry. A meeting was held at Longmirn on Friday evening, when the promoters put forward the objects of w hTthe’ 17 ' " lany slTai ' es were taken up in the room.

nroneiS oeon^® d «* Gilbriansoffis property, on the Foxton line at mid cd S t 1 Saturda y- The place was burn-lanm°e\-r>l° ® roun « The- cause was a amp explosion. Insurance, £l5O.