SUBURBAN MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 6

SUBURBAN MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

+ Mr. Townseud, a candidate for the Mirnmar Muyoiulty, will deliver a preliminary address to the electois at the Worser Bay Kiosk on Monday evening.

The Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, arrives in Wellington from the South tomorrow morning^. He leaves for Gisborno on Tuesday next, anil will be accompanied on his Northern trip bj Lady Ward. Whilst in Gisborne tho Prime Minister will formally open a maternity homo which has just been completed. Authority was given by the City Council last evening to bcal the document containing the application for an OrderJfivQpSSS&JiK the. iWiiftMVWH «AMflßfc\n

A Press Association telegram from Pahiatua received late this afternoon states that there are no fresh developments ia connection with the pursuit of the escaped prisoner Powelka. When he was seen last evening near the. Pahiatua ra'lway station he had just been to tho store to buy fuse, but could obtain none, and rodo away. When across the railway line ho was seen by Constable King, of Palmers ton, who was on patrol. King states that Powelka, hearing the sound of hoofs, turned round. Although it was growing dusk, King immediately recognised him. He was wearing a green hat, green overcoat, and new leggings — lost From one of the Palmerston fires. Powelka's hor*e was a speedy animal, and gained on King, but it became footsore, as it wanted two nhoes, and went slightly lame. King then decreased the distance between them. Powolka, seeing it was hopeless to continue to ride, took advantage of the cover of a bend in theroad to dismount, abandon the horse, and clear up tho hill in tho direction of Matthew's Bu*h. Coming up, King saw Powelka, revolver in 'hand, running to- [ wards the bu«h. Tho constable fired twice, but failed to hit Powelka, who ran into the bush and wan lost in tha darkness. Then assistance was summoned, tho bush surrounded, and searched at daybreak without avail. About forty constables are engaged in the search at present, and more arc hourly expected. It is probable the Tararua ranges will bo tho scene of patrol to-day. An application by the Wellington Hospital Board for the construction of a sewer connecting the new fever hospital with the main sewers was granted by the City Council last evening on the understand ing that the expenso Fhoiild be borne by the hospital authorities. A fitting of the North Island Railway Appeal Board — Mr. Haselden, S.M., and Messrs. C. P. Ryan and M. Lee — wm held to-day to hear two canes. The first was an appeal by Archibald Macdonald, New Plymouth, against his reduction from the position of shunter to that of porter. The second was that of Robert B. Milne, Now Plymouth, who objected to hi* reduction from signalman to porter. Mr. S. O. Smith appeared for appellants, and Mr. H. Davidfon for tho department. Judgment wa» reserved in both cases.