NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 January 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(per press association).

Traces of Captain Cook. Gisborne, This Day. Professor Morris, of the Melbourne University, who is writing an Australian history of Captain Cook, paid a visit to Cook’s Cove, Tolaga Bay, this morning. At a spring on the hillside, over-grown with scrubs, lie found a substantial oaken cask, which is thought might have been placed there by the navigator. On the Papa Rocks, alongside another spring, arc cut letters believed to ho the initials of the crew of Cook’s vessel. A Medico in Distress. Wellington, This Day. George Scott was fined £lO at the Magistrate’s Court to-day for practising medicine without registration. His Counsel stated that he was duly qualified hut at present the name lie boro was not his real name, and for family reasons it was inconvenient for him to register just now. He was in fact a traveller who had fallen back on his profession for temporary support. Transport for South Africa. The troopship Cornwall left Sydney yeaterday, and is expected at Wellington on Monday. The Government Ashamed of the Commission.

It is not with the Government’s concurrence that the Federation Commission proceedings are closed to the press. The Colchester Murder. The evidence in the Colchester ease was concluded this morning, and Bell asked for the extradition of accused. Skcrrctt raised a technical objection as to the English depositions which had been produced, and also maintained that the evidence of identification was unsatisfactory, and was answered by documentary proof that the suspect was Lillywhite, not Blatch. The Magistrate decided to extradite Lillywhite, pointing out that it would lie better for himself to go homo and have his identity completely established than be a marked man here, as lie would be if released.