DOMINION DOINGS.

Evening Star, Issue 14635, 3 August 1911, Page 7

DOMINION DOINGS.

[Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, August 3. Charles Searle, formerly a grocer, who gave himself up to the police last Saturday, came up for sentence to-day on charges of receiving a case of cocoa and a caddie of tobacco, knowing them to have been stolen from a warehouse. He was fined £3O or three months’ imprisonment, and was also ordered to pav the value of the goods (£l3). 'Patrick Hayden (33), a waggoner, went into a doorway in Cuba street at 11 o’clock last night and stabbed himself in the stomach with a penknife. He collapsed on the footpath and was carried to a neighboring doctor’s, and then removed to the hospital, where he lies in a critical condition. He admitted to the police that the wound was self-inflicted. A regulation has been framed providing that where tho addresses of letters in transparent envelopes are not clear the post office authorities may put tliem aside till the work is less pressing. Where articles in transparent envelopes are so folded that the addresses are unreadable they will be treated as undeliverafale. Mr J. L. Kelly, of Ashburton, advises that more than half the lists petitioning for Lionel Terry’s release have not been sent back to him. Those received contain nearly 3,000 signatures. Dunedin is first with 782. Mr Kelly asks that all sheets be returned to him by Saturday next. Tho Alines Commission commenced their sittings here to-day, Mr J. S. Evans, S.M., presiding. The proceedings are not open to the Press. INVERCARGILL, August 3. The proposal to establish a Taylor memorial fund is being warmly supported here. A list was opened by the • Southland News,’ and subscriptions are coming in freely. GREYMOUTH, August 3. At the elocutionary competitions last night the church choir contest resulted as follows:—Trinity (Anglican), 257 points, 1; St. John’s (Presbyterian), 233, 2; Methodist, 219, 3. Air Baeyertz warmly complimented Airs Cadzow ou her faultless accompaniment to the winning choir. He strongly urged Greymouth to send a team to the Wellington competitions, as they would hold their own against the best in Australia.