TELEGRAPHIC.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9739, 12 December 1899, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

(l'Eli I'IiESS ASSOCIATION.)

AfrcKLAXD, Last night. This morning Inspector Culleri received ft telegram from Constable Scott, statioiied at Aratapi,!, to the effect thdt Captain Olsbn's boat had 'jeun iotind at Fitzgerald? beach, near Port Albert river; The boat had evidently capsized, through the main sheet having been made fast. °\Vhen found the boat was half buried in the sand. There was np | sign of the, b'ocly. Trie was too rough lor Searchers to fem_'"ii and look for the missing man. It will be membered that Captain Olsen, of the barque City of Agra, now, lying at Kaipara Heads, left the vessel in one of the ship's boats on the Ist instant, taking some fishing lines with him. He reriiained fishing hear. the ; .barfjue for about twenty minutes, and then sailed across towards the opposite shore. As he never returned Captain Robertson of the tug Sterling made a search on the 4th instant all along the shore, but without success. Another search was made next day, with the s-anie result, and yesterday Detective Madd<rn was despatched from Auckland to make enquiries into the matter. It was generally believed that the captain must have been the victim of a boating accident, and the discovery of the boat yesterday certainly points to that conclusion. The deceased leaves a wife in Powgrund, Norway, having married .three months before his departure from Norway; His wife was to have met him in Liverpool on his arrival there.

It is stated that Dr. Hosking has been invited to take riiinisterial charge of the Free Methodist Church, Auckland; and has also received a call from a Christchurch congregation, but lie lias not decided upon any course at present beyond a trip to Melbourne.

The final scrutiny tor the City election resulted as follows, owing to the number of double votes : —Napier- 6097, Fowlds 5595, Crowther 4751, Holland 5656, Hobhs 4647, Baume 3772, Rosser 3541, Vaile 2455, Regan 1476, French 1366, Quinlan 334.

Wellington, Last night.

In dismissing the appeal in the case in which the S,M. at Master!on convicted and flued the licensee of tlu Club Hotel there for selling liquor on a Sunday night to people who were not bomjide travellers, though they had assured the barman that they were, Sir Robert Stout said were he to hold that merely asking a person demanding drink whether he was a traveller, and receiving an affirmative reply, were sufficient, he would be laying down a rule that might make section 15 of the Act nugatory.

No definite announcement as to the Otaki candidates will be made until after Mr Field's funeral, which takes place tomorrow. Hl3 interment will be a private

Dunedin-, Last night.

Henry Cowan received injuries on polling day by falling over a face at Binnockburn, which proved fatal. He was not found till mid-day on Friday. He was al>ve then, but died shortly after. The verdict was accidental death. He was 37. and leaves a widow and family.

The oliicial declaration of the poll for the city shows a slight increase of votes as follows-—Millar 9045, Arnold 8290, Barclay 7363, Mackenzie 6726, Sligo 6415, Haynes 4919, Chapman 1222; informal 463.

In Caversham the official returns fhow that Morrison polled 2867 votes, and Warren 1752, while there were 56 votes informal.