WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 498, 11 August 1902, Page 3

WELLINGTON NEWS.

SUPREME COURT,

By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Saturday. At the Supremo Court Leonard Phillips was acquittod on a charge of doing grovious bodily harm to Denis Sullivan. BANKS’ DONATION. Instead of spending money on illuminations in connection with the Coronation celebrations five banks doing business in New Zealand, following tho example of the Australian banks, decided to give £SO each to tho New Zealand National Memorial Vetorans’ Homo. BRAVE OFFICER DOWN WITH SMALL-POX. Lieut. Walter Calloway, who has con' tracted small-pox on board the Orient, has had a long and honorable career with the New Zealand Contingents. Ho hails from Coromandel, whore he worked as a miner. His brothor is John Calloway, of Kaikowhakarero, in the Auckland district. Calloway served as a privato in the First Contingent, and afterwards served in the Seventh. He was invalided home from tho Seventh, but the sea-voyage reinstated him in health, and he waited at Albany until the Ninth arrived on the way to Durban, and he returned with that force to the front. Ho was. once dangerously wounded in the liver, but astonished everyone by making a complete recovery, He is a half-caste Maori of good physique. THE ORIENT. Tho work of vaccinating the men on the Oriont was finished this morning. By that time tents were erected on the Island, and everyone was brought ashore, the transport was then to be subjected to long continued fumigation and cleaning. The Admiralty has been communicated with in regard to the movements of the Orient. It is probable that she will be ordered to clear for South Africa direct.