NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 April 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

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Obituary. Nai'ikr, April 16. Mr B. T. Walker, who for the past 22 years has filled the editorial chair of the Hawke's Bay Herald, and who prior to that was for some time sub-editor of the Wellington Evening Post, died to-night. He had been ailing for some little time. He leaves a wife and three children. Railway Changes. Wellington, This Day. J. Carson, railway workshop foreman at Westport, is to be transferred to a similar position at Hillside, and will be succeeded by leading fitter Fraser from Napier. G. Butts, foreman at Greymouth, is to occupy a similar occupation at Easttown, Wanganui, and will be succeeded by the leading fitter N. Watson from Addington. Mulcting Bookmaksrs.

At the Police Court to-day the follow, ing bookmakers were fined for trespass on the New Brighton racecourse:— Thomas Halligau £5, and John Hyams *2,

The Missing Music Master. New Plymouth, April IG. The body of Mr W. Mowbray Higgs who has been missing from Parata for a week past, was found to-day floating in the Waitara River, near the spot where deceased was last seen. Determined., Suicide. Timaru, April 10. An elderly man named Robert Drysdale committed suicide this morning on the roadside, four miles from town. He sat on the road and placed the muzzle of a pun under his chin and blew the leit side of hisface away. Death was instantaneous. He was a well known threshing mill proprietor. New Zealand's Federal Contingent. Wellington, April 10, The Commonwealth Contingent will leeve Lyttolton for Sydney en route for Melbourne by-tbo s.s. Warrimoo on 26th inst.