SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 48, 26 February 1901, Page 8

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, this day

The Union Company has abandonee] the idea, of running a special excursion to the South Sea Islands during the winter in view of the advent of the Duke and Duches! of York. It is expected the Wa.il.are will be retured for the intercolonial trade. Mr John Rogers, city engineer of Brisbane, was last night selected for the position of engineer of Dunedin. At a meeting last night it was decided to form a Young Men's Christian Association, and a. constitution was adopted. The old association of the same name died many years ago. WELLINGTON, this day. The Agricultural Department has arranged to send a trial shipment of frozen poultry to South Africa by, the s.s. Otarama, leaving Lyttelton on 9th prox. William Jones, secretary of the Wellington branch of the Seamen's Union of New Zealand, was charged at the Magistrate's Court yesterday that, being an unauthorised person, he supplied, or engaged, a seaman named John Owens to be entered on board the steamer Oreti. The -Magistrate held that defendant was simply in. the position of having told Owens • that there was a vacancy on the Oreti, and the case was dismissedNAPIER, Monday. Harry Dunn, the well-known wrestler, was brought up at the Magistrate's Court this morning, charged with having assaulted an elderly man named George Beverage, cook at the Caledonian Hotel. The evidence disclosed that Dunn and his brother were skylarking in the hotel rather loudly, and plaintiff, thinking there was a row on, interfered, with the result that he was hurt. Dunn swore that plaintiff was the aggressor, and that if any injury had been inflicted it had been done in self-defence. The case was dismissed. . NAPIER, this day. On Thursday evening an elderly man named Edward _>lalley, formerly belonging to the 65th Regiment, was found in a half demented state wandering amongst the sand hills at Porangahaii. When found he had been without food for five or six days, and had been drinking sea water on the beach. He was found to be of weak intellect and was. conveyed to the .Wellington Asylum.