TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 23, 27 July 1911, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

I PREVALENCE OF APPENDICITIS. (*S TEtEGBAPtt-- SI'ECIAt 10 THE POST.] PALMEP t .STON N., This Day. Thero is a remarkable prevalence of appendicitis in this district at present, and. the local hospitals, both public and private, are full of cases of a more or less serious nature. The eldest son of the vicar of Palmerston, Rev. H. G. Rosher, j i& the latest to fltvelop the con;plaintj and he was operated on recently, and is making good progress. The little son of I the Rev^ Innes Jones, vicar of Feildmjr, I is also at a PaJmerston private hospital. I and this c?-sft is more serious, the latest ■ news being that be is still in a very critL cal condition. Mr. Frank Mason, well known in' horticultural circles ihroughout New Zealand, is also laid aside with the Sam© complaint, an operation having to be performed. [I'HESS ASSOCIATION.! TUESDAY'S DEPUTATION TO ' A MINISTER. "THE SITUATION HAD BEEN SAVED." CHUISTCHtmOH, 26th July. Mr. George T. Booth, chairman of the Tramway Board, and Mr. A. W. Beaven, anothel Christchurch delegate, returned to this city this morning. In a short interview Mr. BooLh Raid that all he could pay for publication was that the Minister would try to arrange for expert representatives of the different tramway systems to meet and confer with the officers of the Public Works Department in regard to technical de* tails, and it was hoped that they would arrive at a satisfactory conclusion. Mr^ Beaven said that the character of the discussion with the Minister yesterday was a very regrettable one, but there was no doubt that the situation had been saved by Mr. Booth's tactful and conciliatory action. If it had not been for that there would certainly have been a very awkward deadlock. WAS IT RAGGING? A RAILWAY WORKSHOPS INCIDENT. AUCKLAND, 26th July. A youth named Smith has been ad» mitted ito the hospital from the Newmarket Workshops, suffering from the effects of a blow on the head with a bar of iron weighing five or six pounds. The affair, which occurred during the absence of the foreman, has given rice to talk of ragging in the Workshops, a matter which wae discussed in last session of Parliament. Pending a departmental enquiry, Smith and all concerned decline to make any statements beyond the fact that during a skirmisn with waste an iron bar wajs thrown, and struck Smith on the forehead. The officials assert that ragging had practically been stamped out. THE GALE IN THE SOUTH. RESTORING COMMUNICATION. CHRISTCHURCH, 26th The railway authorities i-eport that through communication on the North line hae been restored. Communication on the Midland fcranch is still interrupted, and from present indication is likely to remain so for about a week. Several waehoutfi have occurred be» tween Avoca And Broken River, and a somewhat heavy landslip is reported to have taken piace near one of th© tun* nele. Mr. C v H. ~Rm, district engineer, leaves this evening to ascertain the full extent of the damage done to the line, j It ifl expected that passengers from the West Coast to-day will be conveyed on the railway from Cass to Avoca, and from the last-mentioned fetation' by ' coach to Springfield. The postal authorities arc endeavouring to arrange with the Railway Department to run a train to Broken River to-morrow _ (Thursday), where special coaches will bo held to convey mails and passengers to Otira, where, it is Anticipated, connection with the Grey- | mouth train will be made. WRECK OF THE BELLE FLOWER MISSING COOK FOUND, CHRISTCHURCH, 26th July. The police authorities have received information from Little River that Donald Gordon, cook of the Belle Flower, who wandered away in the darkness from the reet of the survivors, was dia covered this morning quite well. A search is* mow being made for th& body of the captain, ! THEFT FROM AN OLD. MAN. DUNEDIN, 26th July. At the Police Court this morning a young man named Oscar Anderson, alias Carl Olsen, was charged with the theft of two SIC notea flom the dwelling of an old man named Walter Thomson. Evidence was given thai the owner placed the money m a pocket of hie trousers hanging on the wall, accused being present. Accused, who worked for a neighbouring farmer, had no money, but afterwards made purchases of nothing, and had & £5 note in his possession. He was committed for trial,