TELEGRAPHIC.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42760, 12 August 1905, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

[By Telegraph.—Press Association.] Wellington, This day. At Gisborne, Thomas Allen, head waiter at the Masonic Hotel, dropped dead at breakfast with an apoplectic seizure. Napier, This day. Before the Police Commissioner, detective Livingstone, who was stationed at. Dunedin during the D. I. 0. thefts, said that his investigations led him to believe they were worked by the firm’s employers. Although records showed he arrested Moses, as he had no recollection of doing so, and never had any suspicion that the police were concerned in the Dunedin robberies and did not think that the stealing had been going on for years, Inspector Macdonell suggested the appointment of Sergant Major to act under the sub Inspector and relieve him of a portion of his duties- McDonell said the appointment of Sub-unspectors had not worked well in the majority of cases. Sergant Trainor said that Bupervisioi in Auckland was very* olack previous to Cullen’s advent, but wonderfully improved since the Dunedin scandal. He had made several surprise inspections and found them warranted,. three constables having i been reported for neglect of duty. Picton, this day. Albert Kilpatrick 22, a native of Dunedin was crushed m the machinery at the cement works last evening and died before reaching the hospital. ‘ Auckland, This Day. A young man, Henry Sale of Parnell, is missing. His rowing skiff and oars have been picked up in the Harbour, it is supposed that Sale is drowned.

Auckland, Augst 10. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of William Henry Cowan upon a charge that while m the employ of the Telegraph Line Construction De partmenc he appropriated £6O or £BO given him to pay the workmen. Cowan is supposed to have left Auckland by theMoana for Sydney on Monday last