LATEST TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1902, Page 6

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

MASTERTON, This Day. B. Wickons, of Mnsterton, h«3 been so-.; tocted as a farrier in the Tenth Contin--gent. To-day tho Wairarapa Star appears under that name for tho last' time. It will coino out on Monday as af morning journal under the title of the Wairarapa Ago. HOKITIKA, This Day. The Ross United Gold Mining Company's claim (in liquidation) has been sold at auction for £1750. LOUR OWN COKBK3PONDKNT.] DUNEDIN, This Day. The Star directs attention to the further remarkable behaviour Yesterday ofr Mr. Mallard, J.P., and particularly to' his insistence (which was overruled by ; tho Stipendiary Magistrate) that a pris-' oner who had just been committed foH trial on a charge of murder should bo' "admitted to bail. The Star calls upon; tho Minister for Justice to remove Mr. MallardJs name from the commission of the peace. ' It is lumourcd that tho Chief Postmasters at Dunedin and Christchurch — Mcrsts Cook and Kirton — and the Registrar of Old-nge Pensions (Mr. Mason), are to be retired undor the rule limiting^ the- ago of civil servants. CARTERTOK", This Day. Stock Inspector Webb reports that rabbits aro scarce in the Carterton district. Tho Mayoral election takes place on tho 30th, and nominations close on the 17th, but thero is little chance of the present Mayor, Mr. J. Baillie, being op-; posed.