GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 52, 10 June 1910, Page 4

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

■SOUTHLAND HOSPITAL 'BOARD. By Telegraph—Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. As the result of consideration of tlie salaries of servants of the Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, it was decided to-night that the seiviee* of the resident hospital (Dr. Hendry) be dispensed with, and that applications be called for a resident surgeon without right of private practice at a salary of .-€SOO a year. Dr. Hendry has been receiving £370, with the right of private .practice. PRICE OF BREAD. Wellington, List Night. The Wellington bakers decided toni<flit to make no reduction in the price of bread. PENGUIN ->jiLIEF FUND. Wellington, Yesterday. At a meeting of the Penguin Relief Rmd Committee to-day a. report was presented showing at the present time a balance of £loo3' lis. Some claims have yet to be met, and in view of possible other claims, of which the committee is unaware, it was decided to take no definite steps for the allocation of the balance of the money at the present time, but the committee generally agreed that £2OO, originally contributed to the fund by the Shipwreck Relief Fund Society, should be returned. A suggestion was also made that the balance, which is likely to ultimately exceed £IOOO, might be made the ibasis of a fund for the alleviation of distress by any shipping calamity. WATER-MAIN BROKEN. Wellington. Yesterday. A serious break was caused in +, 'e Wainui Water main Heading to the city by a heavy fall of earth. The main will probably take nine or ten days to repair. A CONVICT'S ESTATE. Wellington. Yesterday. A meeting of creditors was held today in the estate of Joseph Davis, at present serving a sentence of seven years for arson at Wanganui. The official assignee announced that bankrupt's goods had been seized by the Registrar of the Supreme Court. This interesting point, which aroused the •rurio-fitv of creditors, was subsequently explained bv the Registrar, who stated to a Post reporter that when accused arvelieil for a change of venue of the (rial from Wanganiii to Wellington tlipy entered into a bond to pay the difference in expenses of the trial ftiocurred by the change—hence the seizure.