TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7544, 20 August 1902, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Timaru, August 19. The Timaru Presbytery has set up a committee to confer as to the best method of securing Bible-reading in schools.

The Timaru hospital is at present taxed to its utmost oapacity, some of the nurses having voluntarily given up their quarters, and- are now being accommodated in tents. There are no epidemic cases. The Board has let a contract for additions and alterations to the nurses'. quarters and fever wards at a cost of about LBSOO.

Wbstport, August 19.

The Westport Coal Company have let a contract to Swan, Hunter and : Company, of Newcastle-on-Tyne,' for a steel steam collier of 1600 tons with a loaded speed of 10 knots. The vessel will be used in the Westport-Lyttelton trade.

Auckland, August 20. The Montrose troopers at Motuhi have very comfortable quarters in a large building, with beds on each side of one long room. There is ample provision for warmth. The discipline on the ship was splendid, the vessel beautifully clean, and the officers were all well pleased with the behaviour of the men. Of the troopers in hospital only four are seriously ill. One of them is Meredith, of Christohurcb, who goes on with the Montrose..