LATEST TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1902, Page 6

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

PALML;RSTON N., This Day. Under the new police regulations Sergt.-Akijor Ramsay, oflicer in üburgo of the Palmcrston police district, will send in his papers to the Department tomorrow. Sergt. -Major Ram.say joined tho Force at Ohristchurch in 1862, and since then hns been stationed in Lyttelton, Invercargill, Dunedin, Wollinpton, and several smaller towns. He has been in charge at Palmerstom for the past three years, and possesses a unique recou'l in that during 40 years' service ho lias never had a day's leave of nb.cnce for sickness or. holiday. At present lie is physically nnd mentally capablp of carrying out his duties with distinction, and surprise is expressed at his retirement. WAKAPUAKA, This Day. Mr. Browning, Superintendent of the Eastern Extension Cable Company, this morning telegraphed to Mr. Gray, Secretary of th<S Telegraph Department, Wellington, congratulating tho Department upon the opening of the Pacific cablo for traffic. The nicwsago was so marked that it travelled from Wakapuaka to La Porouse (tho Eastern Extension Compauy's cablo station on the Now South Wales coast), thence- to Sydney and to Southport, Queensland. At the latter station it was transmitted ulong tho Pacific cable to Doubtless Bay, north of Auckland, whence it wm sent over tho New Zealand lines to Wellington. WANGANUI, This Day. A horse-thief was captured by Detective Bishop yesterday. Accused was charged with stealing a horse vulned at £25 from Hawera. The anhnul was sold by accused as a remount for South Africa, and subsequently accused took another horso and en me through Wanganta on his way south, obtaining a third horse before reaching Turakina, where he was arrested. When accosted by the detective ho denied his guilt, at the same time drawing an unen knife. The detective Ihrcutciu'cl to "blow his brains out if the kuifu weio not put down, and accused HUtrcndiTcd. He afterwards admitted stealing the three horses. A telegiuin received by tho Wnngnnui Herald from Air. Smith, an artesian well sinker, states that ho has struck a six foot scam of coal at Puponga bore, Collingwood. It is understood (hat Smith was engaged by a syndicate- to boro for co.il there. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Tv tho Supreme Cmut to-day Thaddeus Julian inndo application for leave ti> lxgit.ter under the Medical Practitioners Act of New Zealand, his qualiaeations being a Bruuctt College of Eclectic jMcdicinu diploma, which was objected to. The evidence was fonclnded, and legal argument \\i\n adjourned till to-morrow. Solomon Shah, who paid £10 to tho City Council for an ice-cream licciuc, v. Inch was after\>uiV taken away, sued for tho amount in the Magistrate's Court this morning. Mr. Becthum gave judgment for the amount claimed. AUCKLAND, This Day. The high prices of lo^s and increased cost of caiting have iculled in nn advance in tho piiee of timber by 6d per 100 ft from the lwt of May. Tho admission of timber free to the Commons calth has alicady had a good etleet. Enquiries aro being made by Sydney buyers for all kinds of timber. As tho lesult of a confuiemc hctwoeu Dr Mason uml tho local heulih authorities, it is understood that hevcial areas mo to bo joined, so that one hospital for mice! ions diseases may sirve instead ot several. This will enalile tlu p'.i.,uc hospital to be 1 amoved fioni the Domain, •igaiijsi whieli thete u as a stiong oublic protest. ' NKLSOIs, 'I his Day. At i meeting ot tho Nel-on (.'olle^o Old Buys it Mas decided 10 lcvive the Olu Boys' Association and foun a cycle corps in counertion tlie"e«itli. The J?ov. W. tl. Willi.miK, 'he new Methodist pa^ror liere, wn; iM^conied •it a (--ocial gathering lv t c\e:iinj<. INVFRC iLUILL, This D.iv. Tho Aotiur^comUr (Sir Jow\fh Wut'd)

w,i^ lunqucU'd ;it the lilull lust niyht by I in 1 Mm \ui iind (Jounrhlci's. To <l.»v Inuiiliuii'il it ll. ig at (he (honl nt UV.k'u i. ;i -ulniil) (it InveuMi-nll. I'd-niun'ow muiit lie will attend the h.-inquet !c Air. L'.uncio.^ at Mos^ic-I, and lie will .each C'lir:stc lunch on Saturday night en route In Wellington.