GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 92, 18 April 1902, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [BY TELE GRAPH- PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

AUCKLAND, 17th April. The City Council to-night rejected tho Otahuhu site for an abattoir. Other sites approbed by the Council have been rejected by tho Government, and tho Council now reject nic only site which has Government approval, the feeling boing that the Council should not be compelled to erect abattoirs on a site -which is regarded as unsuitable. Laying the Electric Tramway Company's underground conduit wires has been temporarily stopped owing to difficulties with tho telephones. In Auckland an Order-in-Council binds the company to put their wires on tho opposite side of the street from the telephone wires. This course was loliowcd, but a diflicully aroso in places where the tolophono lines iollow one side of tho mvet for some distance, and then cics tho street. A settlement between tho Derailment and the Tramways Company ha^ now been arrived at by the company agreeing to carry its conduit viie* across* tho street when nece*-wry to avoid danger of contact. Tho Secretary of tho Harbour Board intends leaving for London by the San lYar.em'o mail atenmer on Saturday week, proceeding straight across America with the mail, and. arriving in London about tho end of iUay, so that he may have as much time as possible to negotiate with tho Admiralty concerning Calliope Dock before tho Coronation festivities begin. 'JLhe members of the Ponsonby Baptist Church hovo resolved to give a unanimous call to tho pastorate of the church to tho ltev. Alfred jSorth, of Calcutta, once Baptist .Minister of tho Hanover-street Church, Dunedin. A deputation fiom the Onobiingn, School Committee united upon tho Board of Education to-day to ascot tain whether the Boaid was willing to recommend that the ()nchuix;a Public School bo established ns iv hi'j[h school. The Chniuiuu thought tho Bo'.ird might gmut ihe roquest ai.d recommend tho application to the (tavernmenl. Ho moved in that direction. Tho motion was adopted unanimously. In the Magistrate's Court to day Henry Sampo sued Capt. O'JJrien, commanding the Ninth Contingent, for £21 wages an camp cook. v It appeared that Sampe's work was satisfactory, but Captain O'Brien withheld his certificate pending nn explanation as to tho consumption of stores in the officers' me*s. Tho vouchers had since been signed, hut tho question of costs remained. Mr. Martin, defendant's solicitor, claimed that tho Court had no jurisdiction, defendant having acted in his official capacity as an officer of tho Crown. Mr. Fitzherbert, for the plaintiff, claimed that defendant contracted with plaintiff in bis private capacity. Decision was reserved. CHRTSTCHURCH, 17th April. The Rev. J. A. Luxford, chaplain to the Tenth Regiment, was dedicated in Durham-street Wesleyan Church last evening. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. H. Baumber before a large congregation. Mr. Luxford was born in Wellington. Up to' tho present ho has bedn pastor at Lyttelton.