TELEGRAMS

North Otago Times, 26 July 1906, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

.GISB'JRNR . July 25, •On Monday three yoting men attempted to cross the-Ponawa Kiver. F. Moore rotlc across first, and tjic others then, not caring to make the attempt, Moore started to return. The horse ami the r'der were swept down and lost to sight, the horse's upturned heels being seen. Later, Moore's friends Were about to give him iip as drowned, when it was found that lie had caught hold of an overhanging willow tree, and he was rescued in an exhausted state. The horse was drowncid.' ' Members ot the County Council interviewed the Hon. Mr Carroll todav regarding the 'damage to roads and bridges by • the recent floods l . The list submitted totalled £s&is, which was sai'd to be much under the actual loss. 'Flic Minister gave , a sympathetic reply, and said he would do what lie could to''have relief afforded.

DU'NEDIN. July 25. Robert A. Parquliarson, Rhodes scholar for i»oo, was met to-day in the Town Hall by a representative gathering, incju'dlng I.owl Plunkct, tlio Professors, members of Parliament, and others, and presented with a cheque for 200 guineas, subscribed by the public. Dr Benliam, having traced Farquharson's career, said it served to iiidica(c : the fact that a university education was opou and free of expense to all who were mentally fitted'to benefit by it, so tb a l it this colony free education front childhood to mabliood was available to the industrious and moderately clever ind vidtiil. ills. Wxcellcißcy, the lion. T..Y. Duncan, and'Mr J. Pi Arnold, M.H.R., also: spoke briefly. Mr Far<|iiharson, In. his reply, acknowledged the. debt of gratitude lie was under lo teachers, and professors, and especially io-his mother, to whom life oiveil most of all. lie suggested lie should have a cheque for &so, a bank draft for £ioo, and his passage paid," aiul the remainder set aside as a riiscrvfc for the future Rhodes scholars from Otago. The Football Association also presented Farquhatsoit- with a small gold trinket a« a token oi esteem. 'A! boy iianied Samuel Skinner, nine years of ago, died in the hospital, apparently from blood poison ng. While playing on (lie scaffolding of a new building he fell oil, and was treated at home lor a fortnight. A few days ago one of his legs was amputated, hut lie did not improve, and died to-day. The foundation stone of the new medical ward at the Diined n Hospital was laid lo : day by his Excellency Lord Plunkct in the presence of a representative gathering. The chairman of the Hospital Trustees (Mr Peter Miller)-, in the course of h s remarks, said J>6750 had been collected from the people of Otago for the new ward, and with the Government subsidy and interest earned there was now in hand £l6,cob. A commitment had been made to -the. extent uf £15,000. The old hospital, lie pointed out, had. been originally built for the-first exhibti'en held in the colony, and had been always unsuitable. About £30;6oo bad been ex. ponded on it, a.nd ho thought it would htiv'Q hceib ' betlcr had a new building bden' put up at firsts, The I architects presented Lord Plunuct with a gold and. greenstone trowel and mallei. The ljon. T. Y. Duncan said the late lamented. Premier intended. that the Government should set aside a portion of our lands for the purposes of education and. hospitals. He (Mr Dun,qui) would have a Bill prepared to carry that out, and it would nc icady for whoever might be Minister i Land? when Parliament mad, it was not too much to say. that if 2 000,000 acres were set aside for cducat on and 1,000,000. acres for hospitals it would be a vciy good thing. . .

! . Tho Appeal Court this afternoon gave judgment on an application by ■Victor M. Brauwl fpr leave to appeal to the Privy Council against the judgmont given by the Comt of-Ap-peal on an application made-by Mr Craiin'd for an order prohibiting the burning of the hooks ot the late Colonial Bank. Leave to appeal was tcfused., '

INVBROARGILL.July, 25. The Police Court has been principally occupied for six days withhear-

. Football 5 Champions.—"-'We use nothing, but Chamberlain's Pain Balm' as a rub down liniment whle training or alter a game," writes the Secretary of t-bo Eaglehawk Poottjall Club, .Eaglehawk (Vie.). " We. have-found 'it to ; possess 1 , tlie power to promptly relieve strains and sprafiis,! and' to vMckly heal nil abrasions. We'partly attribute our success to.Ckmijeilain's Pain Balm, for. by, using it freely ive' are always in condition < 'no. sbte-1 nes^or-(Witness, 11 • Pot "sale by all chem-1 lsts' and stores. Price,'ls 6d .and 39] I

; 'A' '■ ' : ;i,.:v'vv-:-,' nig three charges of sly 'grovelling ill' Invet'cargillj, and one of failing-to disclose to a"l*rewor the names-nl all tlio iicfsons who We to consume licer ordered One case lias lasted since Monday, and is not yet finished. News ■ comes from Cuttle Oove, Preservation Inlet, that a iccf has been struck; samples fi om which assayed eight ounces per toft. ..Tlu reef is said to tjo a cqntmuation- of tlio Morning Star line,,, on the other side of the inlet; ; , !:; The. football match, (Hago Vnivcrsity v", the Invcrcargilf Club, wi played to-day in steady .rain on ;a sodden ground; and ended in.a draft, without a score.