TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10300, 1 August 1911, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

By Tdeijruph — Fress Association

THE BOUNDARIES COMMISSION.

WELLINGTON, Last Night. The North Island Ejection of the Representa ticiu Commission-, has practically completed its report, .but th» South Island members cf the Commission.' have a. more difficult task with extended boundaries due tothe' reduced number * i yjiate, and 'their work as hardly likely to end until another weok ha;; lapsed. Then, the provisional boundaries will be gazetitied.

MENTAL HOSPITAL TRAGEDY.

AUCKLAND, Last Nighit. On the 24th dnst. an inmate- of th» Avondale Meoiital Hospital, earned Johansen, was working with another man., an Austrian, on the hospital farm, when, he. was attacked by his companion, and struck on the head with a sipade. Johansen' was badly hurt, and was medically attended, but to died today.

FOUND DROWNED.

NAPIER, Last Night. Tho body of Captain Sivert Holland, of the ligtoiteir Moa, who had been missing since' Wednesday last, was found in the inmer harbour thisi afternoon:, close to the wiharf ,• wbere the Moa is> usually moored.

A SEQUEL.

WELLINGTON, Last Night. sequel to a recent case, in which a young woman, was sent to gaol for 21 days for exposing her child in a manner likely to injurtf its health, but who was released, three days Later in consequence of a strong public agitation, was heard in the Magistrate's Count to-day, when Thomas WeUs was adjudged- father of the child. Counsel Fot defendant Sitated that his client had offered (to marry the girl, and wbulcl do so now if she wais williing. He was not aa unmitigated scoundrel, cr. some people had held him up to h<\ He was ordered to conitriibute 7s G:l pcxr week towards the ohiJid's support.

A MAORI'S HANDSOME PRESENT

AUCKLAND, Last.' Night. A Taupo native', Honeriri Whakarehu, an behalf of himself and his wife, and the members of ha® family, caused isome sensation at the Maori, meetiaig at Waahi by presenting 130,988 acnes for the purposes of mama, in various parts of the Taupodistrict. The block .contains a large area of totara, hat and sulphur springs, a great deal of firstncJass and second-class! Land., and a large area of pumice, country.

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE,

BLENHEIM, .Last Night. On, Fridlay afternooni a botfcLe was picked up in Tory Oiamael, oonitadinimg the foUonving message addtoessed to a Timaru resident, jiamed G. J. Johnston:— "Boat capsized itihree miles from Timiaru." The discovery waa reported to the harbour master at Timami, who 'replies that the cdrcum'Stainoe® aire conrect, and giving instructions to preserve the message.