GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

IFB-SS ASSOCIATION.? A SANATORIUM SITE. DUNEDIN, 10th May. The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board has secured a site of eighty acres, two miles south of Palmerston, for a consumptive sanatorium. The cost is about £1000, ,and there aro buildings on the ground which will, fit into the plans for complete buildings. Sufficient accommodation will be provided to answer Southland requirements as well as those of Otago. It is also intended to provide for paying patients, with separate accommodation. It is hoped to make the institution self-sup-porting from revenue-paying patients, keeping cows, ( etc. , Speaking to a reporter to-day, the chairman, Mr. J. it. Walker, said it wSs intended, if possible, to secure a similar country site for the Benevolent Institution, where the more robust inmates could do a little farm , work, and whero all would be removed from the temptations and surroundings of city life. HYDRO-ELECTRIC GOLDMINING. HOKITIKA, 10th May. A well attended public meeting was held here to-night "in support of the agitation started by the Rimu Miners' association last week to urge the Government to deal speedily and favourably with the proposed regulations for hydro-electric gold mining. The opinion was expressed that if capital were encouraged to take up the project it would give a great impetus to mining in Westland. Along Rimu and S"eddoii'& Terrace alone work could be found for many hundreds of alluvial miners. ' The meeting was enthusiastic, and an emphatic protest was made at the delay in dealing with the matter. OLD MAN FOUND DEAD. WHAXGAREI, 10th May. William Child, aged eighty years, an old resident of Maungakaramea, was found dead this morning in a hut where he lived. He had been ailing for some time past. MAORI TROUPE GOING TO NEW YORK. AUCKLAND, 10th May. A tioupe of Maori entertainers will leave Auckland about the end of July next under a nine months' engagement to the propiietors of the New York Hippodrome. The engagement, it is understood, is a direct outcome of the \isit of the American fleet to Auckland last year and the glowing accounts furnished by the American press of the rountry and people, particularly the native race. The troupe will consist of forty Maori", from the Rotoma district, comprising twenty-five men and fifteen women and girK It is hoped the Rev. A. Bennett will accompany the tioupe as manager. CHILD INJURED. NELSON.. 10th May. A thirlecn-months-old cliild named Hennah wad knocked down by a train at Toitoi- Valley to-day, and suffered frac- 1 ture of the skull. The child is making favourable progress.

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