MANAWATU

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7029, 18 January 1910, Page 3

MANAWATU

PALMERSTON NOTES. rnon ecu own corkespokdenx. PALMERSTON, January 17. Dr McCarty, of Wellington, who leaves shortly for the Old Land, is visiting Palmerston. Tho following team has been chosen to represent Manawatu in the cricketmatch 'against Wanganui at Wanganui on January 22nd :—Ongloy, McLean, Trevena, Mason, Roberts, Bartlett, Goldspring, McKenzie, Mitchell, D. Greer, Churchill. Emergency, Holland. Georgo Weston pleaded guilty this morning to stealing a set of safety razors valued at £3 from the headwaiter of the Grand Hotel. He also pleaded intoxication in extenuation, but as the Magistrate considered he had committed a mean theft in that ho had abused the privilege granted him of visiting the servants’ quarters in tho hotel, ho was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment with hard labour.

Tho worshippers in the local churches were considerably perturbed yesterday morning by the rigorous’ and longwinded clanging of'the firebell. The trouble, considering the amount of noise made, was very small, consisting of a fir© in a front garden in Church street West. Someone had evidently dropped a lighted match in the long grass, and it was soon blazing vigorously, tho fire going right through the garden. The application of a single jet of Water by tho brigade ended the trouble, but the garden is now black ruin.

An alleged cattle-stealing’ case was heal’d at the Police Court this morning before Mr A. D. Thomson. S.M., when Aaron Passey, of Jaekeytown, charged tv. B. V. Pearce, whose property adjoins his, with stealing two bullocks valued at £l4 on December Bth. The prosecution was a private one. Passey deposed in evidence that a bullock of Pearce’s was on his farm for some time, and the day after Pearce lifted it he missed two of his own. Someone had seen Pearce driving the tivo missing animals along the road with his own. And later on Passey found the two bullocks in an out-of-the-way paddock of Pearce’s. Passey admitted that for some time the boundary fence between his and Pearce’s land was down and the stock on the two properties frequently got mixed up, hut lie swore that two days before. Pearce came for his bullock all his (Passey’s) stock was on his own land. Pearce had torbidden him to go on bis land- me hearing of the case lasted all day and was then adjourned till the 26th mst., when the remainder of the evidence will be taken.