GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 321, 12 January 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

.NAPIKU HOSPITAL. 13/ Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. JJr. W. lloure, medical superintendent of tliu Napier Hospital, in a report sub.'iiiitted to tiic trustees to-da,t, spjlci' strongly of Hie insulliciency of accommodation at the institution. 'lhe trusties sol up a committee to consider ami report on the best manner of providing increased accoiiimodiilion and stau.

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Napier, Last X:-!il. The premium of .CHX) ollorcd by the Napier Workiiigmcn's Club for plans for a new building, to rust not more, than .ClUjIKIil, has been won by Air. lands liny, of Napier. The committee plaeed the plans ,jf 11. Burr (Wellington) second, and those of llu»h and James (Hastings) third.

THE WKSTTOHT MUUUUIi. Dunedin, Monday. The Justiei! Department intend pro scenting Connelly .or murder in eoiincc lion with the death'of ISourke at West port.

TIIK MAIN TIUJ.NK DINK SEUVICK. ' Wellington, .Monday. l'lip fast through service over the .North Island .Main Trunk railway will be inaugurated on February 1. The actual tiiin-l:ilile is n»t yet available,

but the MTiiie will be designed to provide a Iweniy-hour trip between Wellington and Auckland, leaving Wel-

lington at noon daily. i Wellington, Last Night. The inauguration of the fast mail service between Wellington and Auckland, via. the -Main Trunk line, has been post-

I polled from February Ist to February loth. The Public Works Engineer and the General -Manager of Railways, after

inspecting the line, lind that housing accommodation for the stall' is not likely to be finished by February Ist, and a lot of loose rocks and boulders have' to come down in some of the cuttings.

BURGLARS AT WORK. Wellington, Monday. Between Saturday night and this morning the Customs Office of the Postal Department was burglariously entered and a sate broken open, presumably by explosives.' The safe contained registered letters, stamps and cash, the latter amounting to £34, and stamps being valued at £OO. These latter were taken.

A CHINAMAN FIXED. Dimedin, Monday

All Hung was to-day lined £25 in the Police Court for having opium in his possession.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS. Duncdin, Monday

The Commercial Travellers' Association has carried unanimously a motion declining to fall in with the proposal of the. Wellington Conference to adopt the New Zealand Association independent of ihc Australian Association. It was suggested that the Wellington and Auckland Associations should accept the united association's invitation to join its ranks—extended to I hem at the Brisbane conference—thus completing the chain of organisation throughout Australia.

A ITAUL OF WfUSKT. Oamani, January 11. On Saturday evening the police raided the premises of J. Curran, tobacconist, in search of sly-grog. Finding none, thev searched Hie store-room of 1). (lillies, grocer, adjoining Curran's, and discovered fifteen bottles of whisky in a case and a portmanteau, flillies disclaimed any knowledge of (lie liquor being on the promises. It is understood that prosecutions will follow.