GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1903, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[rasas association.! PALMERSTON N. This Day. The Royal Hotel, one of the largest in tho town, was sold yesterday at double tho price given by the owners, Messrs. J. XI. Johnston and Newell, two years ago, the amount equalling £184 por foot fronti ago to the Square. The property was purchased by MJbs F. Crawford. WAIROA, This Day. Tho Rev. M. VV. Butterliold, Vicar of St. Paul's, has been offered a valuable educational appointment in Tonga. INVKRCARGILL, 3rd December. , Tho Bluff Harbour Board to-day accepted the Marine Department's limited area of reclamation with somo demur. ■ It was decided to gut a price for a backet mod sand pump drtdgo from & Clydo iirni. r This Day. A privato cablegram from Hobart ailttes that Thomas Vettib defeated W. H. Chellis for a wager of £50 and • tho world's chopping championship for cutting 2ft standing blacks. WHANGAREI This Day. Tho Whangtuei Cattlo Show is a great \ success, the entries constituting a record. Championship prizes were awarded, as follows:— -Bull, Mr. James Close; cow, Mr. Harding, M.H.R. j dairy cow, Mr. J. Forsyth. AUCKLAND, 3rd December. An attempt to escape from Mouut Eden , Gaol was -made this morning by Willhm Henry Wilcox, who .had served twelve months of five years to which ho was sentenced for houscbrcaking. Wilcox was employed in the gaol as assistant cook, which gave him a little more liberty than most of the prisoners. During breakfast he managed to leave the kitchen without exciting suspicion, and cleared into cover. Later in the day Wilcox was ro- • covered in the precincts of tho prison.