GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81916, 15 January 1907, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

TER PRESS ASSOCIATION. coxsnumvEs' hospital. January 41. Tin- Chief Health Officer, Dr. Mason, met the Hospital mid Charitable Aid Jioard yesterday and urged upon Hie Jioard erection of shelter for open air treatment of consumptives. There are many consumptives at Auckland who cannot lie accommodated at Cambridge Sanatorium or the hospital. The public are to be asked to subscribe.

COLLISION NAHItOWLY AYUHTED, Wellington, .Tnnuarv 14. The ferry Ktoamor Collar, froin Wellington to Kona J lav, and the lnion~ Company's imrhmir 'tug N'atonc, lipth with a number of passengers on board, had a narrow escape from col-, iision oil Snlunlay evening in the vicinity of Ward island Both vessels reversed their engines, and what appeared at lirst likely to end in n serious accident was averted, though the passengers 011 either vessel were greatly alarmed.

ELECTORAL BOL'JJDAHIIis. ' Wellington, Jammr 14. Mr W. II P. Barber, M.H.R., ] mfl fornmlly written to the Chairman of the North Island Representative Commissioners objecting to the proposed alteration in the boundaries of Newtown 'electorate, on the ground that the present boundnricH have been unnecessarily interfered with, and the community of interest destroyed. ; CITY SHARKS. Wellington, January 14. Kenneth Kicld and Michael O'Donlicit Were Committed for trial on A charge of nssaulting • Ailbert Barniele, anil robbing him of £ll. Harnicle lnid been working on the Main Trunk line at Turangerere, and eanie to town for the holidays, when he tell in with t!m accused, who took liim to u secluded spot, and after knocking him about, wont through his pockets.

ALLEfIEI) M ISAP PROI'ItIATION. Christ ehurcli. January 14. Hurry Francis, so!icitor, was charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day with the misappropriation of £17.) trust funds, and was remanded till January 21. Bail was allowed, self in .£SOO and two sureties of £250 each. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Dunedin, January 14. Alfred (leorge linker, living tit Pine Hill, attempted to commit suicide on Saturday night, when he jumped liaked through two windows. Ho was formerly an inmate of Scucliff Asylum. 1101J.E ItIILK CAMPAIGN. Ma'stcrton, January 14. S Mr Devlin, the Irish envoy, addressed a meeting to-night on liome Rule, and was enthusiastically received. At the conclusion of the meeting a resolution Was carried expressing sympathy with the movement. CLAIMS I'Ol! INJURIES. :

Auckland, January 14. The 'Auckland Harbour Jloaivl litis been served with; notice of claims for compensation for injuries sustained by workmen during the. docking of the Manmri (Westing fin* Other claims Mill probably be lodged. A YOTJ2 Ul' CONOOJJOXC'R Xapicr, January 11. At a meeting of the Hospital Hoard to day, a vote of condolence was pwnseil to the relatives of Die hite Dr. Jlnci-Ucgor, Inspector General of Hon. pitals. HU(j-LAYING COMPETITION. Christeluirch, January 14. lluring the week ending .Innmny ll.'Hil!) eggs were !nid by the hem m tile utility Poultry Club's second egglavinji competition at Lincoln t'otVgc, bringing the total to (Into to The highest totals to date nrej-M. Hlancli, silver Wyandotles, Hl3; J. .Vshtoii, silver Wyandotles, 724; F. O'llrieit. silver Wyandotte's, 080; Mi's Cordon, brown Leghorn*, 073,

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