TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 72, 25 March 1912, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

TERRITORIALS IN TROUBLE LATE ARRIVALS CHARGE THE Gil A hi) AN EXAGGERATED REPORT. [XT TBLB3BAPH — SPECIAT. TO TIIE PQBT.j AUCKLAND, This Day. During Saturday afternoon between thirty and fifty men left the camp at Papatoetoe without leave, and spent tho rest of the day m Auckland. They returned to Papatcetoe by the midniglit train. Tho approach ot the men was heard by a. sentry while they were etill a long way off, and he called out the i_'uard. The non-commissioned officer in cliarge disposed his men with fixed bayonets across the road leading to the" camp. Having the advantage of superior numbers the delinquents charged at the guard and succeeded by their first assault in gaining entrance to the camp. One man sought tho cover of the^mariuka. ecxub adjoining the road. He was observed by one of the guard, who followed him with the intention cf arresting the man, and in the darkness they came into collision, and the gnard's bayonet grazed' the ether Territorial's face, inflicting a slight wound. Currency, has been given to a report that a sentry used lm bayonetted rifle upon three men, inflicting such injuries that all had to be taken lo hospital. Dr. Dudley, who was medical officer on duty, states that most diligent enquiries failed to discover mom than one I man who had been injured. That man j received only a superficial wound about half an inch long in front of the lefb ear; it wac so slight that the doctor found it required only washing. A Military Board of Enquiry sat yesterday to investigate the incident. Its j finding was that the evidence showed that a man had received a superficial wound on the cheek in on endeavour to hide in the scrub, and that a sharp stake had caused the injury, which tho surgeon, had not found it necessary _to drass. [PttBSS ASSOCIATION.] DOCTOR SANDBAGGED AND ROBBED. AUCKLAND, 23rd March. Dr. James Moir, a well-known nu-di-cal practitioner of Auckland for many years, was sandbagged and robbed on Friday night. That evening he received a telephone message to attend a patient in Carlton, Gore-road, and, the distance not being great, he set out to walk to the place about 10 p.m., but on tho way was waylaid by a man, and assaulted with a sandbag, and robbed. Dr. Moir was, found about one o'clock on Saturday morning on the footpath, lying in an unconscious condition. He was taken to his home in Symondsstreet, and recovered consciousness shortly before noon on Saturday. He is now making good progress towards recovery. SUPREME COURT. | MASTERTON, 24tii March. A case was heard in the Supreme Court yesterday in which. Francis Hood claimed to recover from R. Hob the possession of a farm which he alleged had been sold to the defendant without authority during the plaintiff's absence in England. His- Honour adjourned the further hearing of the case to .Wellington. The last case on the liet was one m which a farm labourer named Evan Jones claimed from John Thomas Bicknell, farmer, of Featherston, the sum of £551, balance- of wage* alleged to be due over a period; of nineteen year*. Plaintiff alleged that he went to work for defendant in 1892 at a wage of £40 Eer year, and found the total sum that c had drawn in the period in cash and goods was £208. The defendant alleged that the agreement was that the plaintiff was to receive 10s per week. Tnis was paid in cash and kind for eight years, when plaintiff took to drink, and the agreement was varied so that he should receive 10s per fortnight, with food, clothes, and tobacco. After hearing the evidence, his Honour wiid he was not satisfied with the case, and was dot disposed to adjudicate. He thought 'the case one for a jury or for arbitration by bettlers. He would nonsuit plaintiff, but without costs. RECENT HURRICANE AT THE ISLANDS. AUCKLAND, 23vd March. Apparently the position of the native population iv the Haapai Group, as the result. of the devastation caused by the recent hurricane, js not quite so serious aB was -at first anticipated. Mr. A. Miller, of Auckland, returned by tins Atua from the Islands thk morning, Ti!» visit to tho group being for the specific purpose of investigating the actual damage done. The natives, ho found, were not faced with any immediate possibilities of starvation, or even dire trouble, since the copra supplicc were coming forward' very freely, and would continue to do so for the next four months. Maize and 1 other crops were being planted and would be available for food ourposes in another cix months, while the banana plantation.*, which had suffered severely, would again begin to reach a state of productivity in another nine months. The jam crop had aho failed, but before the end of the year these should be bearing again. Trade would admittedly bo dull fur a period, but if the natives took care of the moncv which they would receive for the fcupply of^copra on hand, they would bo able to tido themselves over the t-oublo ahead. In all, some 200,000 coconut trces> were destroyed in the gale, but, this number, Mr. Miller states, only represents about a fourth of the | plantation aroa, and conditions should be nearly normal in the Haapai Uroup eighteen months hence. FIRE IN aTImBER YARD. AUCKLAND, 24th March. At about six o'clock last evening a fire was discovered in a sawmill of the Parker and Lamb Company at Freeman's Bay, and soon a great, stock of seasoned tim-ber,-stacked round it. was in flames. An immense crowd gathered on all the adjacent eminences and watched xhe large stock go to destruction. The efforts of the brigade were concentrated on saving Messrs. Leyland, O'Brien Company's property, streams of water being played on the timber in ibeii' yard. Mee<sr<s. Leyland and O'Brien's property was saved, but Mr. P. _ Bryant's coal 'and firewood yard, including a two-story building containing machinery which wae next to the burning mill, was totally destroyed. ! Mtssrs. Parker and Lamb were insured fur £2000 in the Guaidian Office, and tho damage is> ebtmiated at about £6600. Mr. Bryant was insured for £350, and the damage to hie property is estimated ! at £850. PRESENTATION TO MR. STAGPOOLE PALMERSTOX X., 24th Match. Mr. Stagpoole, late of the Linton School, "whobo appeal against the \Vansjanui Education Board was recently dinnikeed, vaa entertained by tho people of Lintoa end puscntcd \\itn a puise of «oveioijgnfi t " ------