MANAWATU

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6623, 12 September 1908, Page 3

MANAWATU

SUPREME COURT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) PALMT®STON, September 11Tb« Supreme Court resumed this P Mr“ Justice Chapman presiding. breach of bamoujptoy act. Yesterday Thomas GJeeson of Bongotea, had been convicted °f a “reach of the Bankruptcy Act m oontiactii g debts without having prospect of paying them. Gleeson came up for sentonco tins morning. . His Honor said it wasthe intention of the Legislature that in a ease like the present the accused should bo punished with imprisonment. Hei regretted having to send to prison a voung man of presumably good cbai acter. but he could not set at naught the provisions of the Legislature. - oused was sentenced to fourteen day imprisonment, without hard labour. ALLEGED LIBEL. The case in which Edward Ernest Lawrence, sheep drover, claims LoUl damages from Charles Frederick Death, alleging that he has been libelled, was continued. When the Court rose only- two witnesses for the defence had been heard. I LONG SITTING.

There is a good deal;of business) before the Court, probably sufficient to last the whole of next week. A heavy thunderstorm passed oyer Palmerston this afternoon accompanied by sheets of rain and a hail storm. Constable Orozier, who is retiring from the position of gaoler at Palmerston, has been presented with a gold-mounted walking stick by his comrades. Mr G. tV. Harden of the Bank of Not South Wales, and Mrs Harden, Mr and Mrs F. W. Connell, Mr Rutherford, and Mr Connell have left Palmerston for Sydney on a holiday trip. As business is fast accumulating, the Borough Council finds it" necessary to hold a special meeting on Tuesday. The Methodists are arranging to build a new church. The present site in Broad street is to be sold, and the new building erected in Church street, on the site now occupied hy the parsonage. The parsonage is to bo shifted hack. The Sunday schoolroom will also be removed from Broad street to Church street. , The committee of the Manawat(;t Racing Club intends to ask his Excellency the Governor to accept the position of patron of the club. The members of Bord Plunket’s staff have been elected honorary members of the club. Tho Manawatu _ Art Society’s exhibition in the big hall on the Show Grounds was visited by a large number of people yesterday afternoon and evening, one and all expressing surprise at the splendid collection which had been got together. The Maori section’ is particularly interesting, and the curio department alone is well work a visit. Each evening during the season a programme of vocal and instrumental music has been arranged for. Mr Mark Cohen, editor of the Dunedin “Star,” has been a visitor to Palmerston. It is a great number of years since Mr Cohen was in this town, and ho expressed his astonishment atthe progress that has been made. Nearly a hundred couples attended tho annual railway staff hall in the Municipal Hall last night, and the function proved a great success. The hall was nicely decorated and the floor was in s'plendid order for dancing.