PROVINCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4314, 25 March 1901, Page 7

PROVINCIAL NEWS

PALMERSTON NORTH. , Air J. Regers,, who has been AssistantClerk of the Court here -for gome time, and who is very popular in social and athletic circles, is leaving to take up a position in tho Stipendiary Alagistrate s Court office at Christchurch. His friends are sorry to lose him, but, knowing that his departure means promotion, wish him well. It is stated by a local paper that as a result of the loudly .expressed opinion of the Wanganui Bqnd anent the action of the Wellington Garrison Band in not taking part in the contest, the latter intends challenging Wanganui to a musical contest for stakes valued at £IOO. Aliss Curtis, of the Terrace End school, who is about tc. be married, has been presented by Mr F. Pirani, AI.H.R., on behalf of the teachers and elder scholars, with a handsome service of silver, and by her " very own” scholars with a useful service of glassware. Preparations for the Early.-Settlers - Picnic are going on apace, and it is ccr tain- that the gathering, which is tc. be held early next week, and which is sure to bo very largely attended, will be a great success. ‘ , At the sales here this week, fat sheep realised from 13s 2d to 13s 9dj 2-looth wethers, 11s 4d; cull wethers, 9s 4d; sound mouth ewes, 8s lid to 11s 2d; good lambs, 8s Id; -bullocks, £7los; ; fa.t cows, £4 12s to £5 3s; '3 r year-old -bullocks, £4 7s to £4 T7s 6d. ,- - • • ■ The “ Manawatu Evening Standard of Saturday, s»ys“ Mr Young, formerly a resident.here, is on a visit to Palmerston to-day, ein route to Wellington, where he takes up a. position in: the’ commercial - department- pf the ;-Nc\v , Zea-. land Times.’” Air Young was coancteVfd with journalistic work in the Alanawatu district for about six years, and-has always been considered a smart laud capable business man. . , j LEVIN. -.if Several of tho many friends! of Air H. Goldsmith, of this town, assembled at the railway station, on Saturday night to give him a send-off on Ills leaving to join the Seventh Contingent. Ho was very popular here. As tho trainUeft the platform three hearty cheers wero given for tho departing trooper. OTAKI. ; ■ Mr Edwin Harrison, the late {licensee of tho Alanakau Hotel, was entertained at a dinner, aitd presented with a pair of inscribed gold sleeve links as ja. token of the. esteem in.'which lie was held. Diphtheria is visiting Levin, jin one case with fatal result. Air and Airs Alfred Warren, lost their little ■ fifteen-months-old daughter, and muchi sympathy is felt for them. | At a meeting of the committee of the Horowhenua Horticultural and! Industrial Society the following judges wore appointed’ in connection with the autumn show, .to bo held on April 24t next:—Pot plants, chrysanthemums, ciifc blooms (excepting bouqudts and table decorations), vegetables, fruit and farm produce, Air J. Alayo, of (Palmerston Northdomestic, children’s class, bouquets and decorated baskets. 1 Airs F. Bothune,- of Johnsohville; poultry, Mr J . Cunningham, of Palmerston) North; table decorations. Air Cooper, ijuu., of Wellington. Mr AY; H. Field‘is to be asked to open the show. ! . CARTERTON. ] Air George Alanmhg,. of Ca'rtortou, was sarionely injured In, his Back on Friday afternoon b,U dome tr'upks. at Messrs Booth’s sawmill .running; over hir body. The sufferer Was taken up to Dr Ross’s surgery at Alasterton, and is now under his care- ».■: > • i . A year or two ago Air Charles Rooking Carter (after whom Carterton.- wae called) died. Ho was a generous arid public-spirited man,-drat had 'distinctly peculiar ,views. He left a large property, and ordered in his will that an old men’s, home should he built, but he has hedged the occupancy of the said ,hom.e round with such a variety- of conditions that none .hut wingless angels need apply. _ For .instance, ho person can gain admission to thei sanctum sanctqrum unless he is 65, five years a resident, of good repute, never bankrupt and never drunk. As all our sober citizens of good repute are well-to-do, and all boar-sodden; bankrupt; ox-rosi dents are dead, here vye ihavo the spectacle of a beautifully built, well-furnish-ed, nicelv-eqmpped home, plus a wellpaid, well-accredited brace of caretakers! but without a single occupant. And Carter lies m his last home at dareville without a headstone to mark the place) ihere are two cases of typhoid in this town, one very serious.' Dr Johnston has ordered the removal of the patients to the Greytown Hospital. People are not surprised there is an epidemic, as occu- : pants of various housesi disregai-d the sanitary canons in a most abnormal manner. The recommendation of the General Board of Health has been treated as the advertisements of a “quack” doctor, and although there is an inspector of nuisances; up to the present it cannot be said that ho has pursued his avocation. ■’ i. j - 1