WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 288, 11 June 1907, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES

> [By Telegraph.] > (Our Own Correspondent.) ; A NARROW ESCAPE. Wellington, June 11. # Mr A. Hamilton met with an acci- ■ dent in the N.Z. Times building to- ■ day. He was in oompany with Mr , Longden, director of the British art colection at the late Exhibition, and > was looking for Mr Bowring's studio, , which is in the building. It appears i that some workmen carelessly left a . trap-door open, and Mr Hamilton fell . through it. He had one of his ribs i broken, and was considerably bruised; i but not dangerously hurt. Fortui nately his fall was broken by his striking a case with his shoulder. Mr Longden had a narrow escape. He , was just in the act of stepping on to the opening when he saw Mr Hamilton disappearing through it, and was able to draw back in time. EXAMINATIONS. The following candidates passed their final law examinations in May last : — Auckland : Solicitors — W. 8. Buttle, F. G. Massey, H. Morpeth. Wellington: Solicitors—S. H. Gjlmer, N. Z. Armstrong, L. Craig, G. H. Graham, H. Hart, T. B. Slipper; LL.B.— A. Fair, W. H. Wilson. Christchurch : Solicitors— T." S..Dacre, K. S. Williams. Dunedin: Solicitors—C. Darling, G. Gallaway, S. C. Hereus, T. E. Roberts, T. Sinclair, J. Walsh. THE ACTING-PREMIER. Mr Hall Jones was sufficiently recovered to go for a drive yesterday. THE CABLE. The Tutanekai has found the bad spot in the Cook Strait cable, and it will probably be repaired to-night. Naturally cable-laying is not a cheap process. The sample used for the recent break costs (says the Post) about £200 a mile (six tons). But, of course, all cable does not run to that figure. On some deep sea bottoms, where the lines may rest in peaoe, they run only a ton and a quarter to the mile and the price varies accordingly. The Telegraph Department pays the Marine Department £75 for every day that it has the Tutanekai employed in tibis service, and the figure is low compared with the bills that had to be met in the days before the Government had a steamer available for this purpose. Years ago the Eastern Extension Co. charged £10 an hour from the time its steamer left Singapore till it returned. This cable-laying is only one of the many \ uses of the Tutanekai, which has a very busy round of duties for the public good.