GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 100, 18 October 1911, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

■GALE AT MASTERTOX. By Telegraph—Press Association. Masterton, hist Night. A violent gale visited Masterton this afternoon, doing considerable damage to orchards and plantations. PROPOSED TRAMWAYS FOR PALMER.STON. Pabnerston N., Last Night. Tlie Borough Council to-night decided to secure a report from Mr. F: Black, electrical engineer, of Wellington, as to the Edison battery or the overhead trolley trams for Paimerston. A PLENTIFUL SUPPLY. Paimerston N., Last Night. One of a series of artesian wells being sunk at the golf links is throwing up 250,000 gallons per day through a twoinch pipe from 164 feet. RAINS AND SQUALLS. Paimerston N., Last Niglit. There have been heavy rains and squalls throughout this district to-day, and the pastures are getting a needed soaking. A MYSTERY SOLVED. Dunedin, Last Night. The newly-bofn infant which was found at Balclutha on Friday morning is progressing favorably under careful treatment. The mystery regarding its parentage has been solved, the mother, a young unmarried woman, having confessed to the police. Ait first she denied all knowledge of the matter. ENDOW IXC! A HOSPITAL BED. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. Leo. W. Buller and his sister have offered £.>oo to endow a bed in the Wellington hospital in memory of their late brother. Mr. l'crcy Buller.