TELEGRAMS.

North Otago Times, 20 July 1908, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

; Per Press Association. OHRISTCUMCH. I July 19. ' Mr Uriah Ilurrell, road inspeator at -tho Bcaley, died suddenly on' Thursday night or Fiidny morning. Tho body ( weft htoughi to Chnstchurcli, and an inquest was hold at the morgue this zoning, when ft venlicfj was roturned that death was due to heart failure Tho Timaiu 'correspondent of tho Press stales that the recent fall of mow is' likoly to prove moro serious than at fust Anticipated In tho Mackenzie eountiy runholder? mo employing men at proat expense to save as manv sheep as possible, hub it is stated thnf whoro hundreds wcro> lost after tho lasljnowstorm somo Woods' Great Peppermint." Cure for Cmiohii sntaColrls'never* fafls,' Is' fid amlSsM** '„ i ' '' j < *,' i ' . f s rf.

few, years "WaLeA loss,.this „timo 'will'run into"iihousand^ '■> j 1 WELLINGTON:, ..The master, piA Union Company's I ,Maori reported on arrival ntj Wellington from Lyttelton -triis mom-'" itig that af 430/ when/between "Kai-, kourft and, Capa Campbell Ho came, abreast of tbe, Huddart Parker's stea roer Victoria,' displaying signals that .she was out of control. Tho'Maori, was taken to uitbin a quarter of n mile of ■the Victoria, but receiving no further signals stood on and ho made his way north. The captain of the Talilno, which left Lyttelton after the Maori, roported that at Q.3Q lie passed tho Victoria five miles south ofKaibura. Tho Victoria was then under way, steering south. It is presumed thnt some temporaiy break down bad occurred in tho engino room, |,nthad been repaiicd betviwn the time of the vossel being seen by ll, e Maori and passed bv tho Talunc. The Victoria left Wellington „ t 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon for Punedin. It «as then blowing a gale from the south, and a high sea was running fa Cooks Strait, but the weather conditions bad improved by the momhg.

WELLINGTON, ' v . ' ;: HM. IugBMB.. prepared by tho Tramway | lopartment show, that the average rate i charged to passengers is 1.33 d per imlojn Wellington and the same in Dnnedin, 2.1 Min Christchurch, and I-4 id in Auckland. ' NAPIER. July 18. A meeting of the Painters and Decorators' Union carried "tho following resolution as an outco'mo'of an appeal for did:-" That this .Union absolutely refuses to grant ftny r assistance to -tjic Wellington Bakers' Union, and disapproves of their action in striking,"

GISBORNE. July, 18. .There has tan, a heavy foil of snow along the East Coast, too hills being v covered as far north as Waipivi, At Wkrerata toe snow lies a foot deep-and toe coach fromi Morero this morning ploughed through drifts top to tho horses knees.

TE AWAMUTU. 1 July 18. ' On Friday a tragedy occurred at Maungaitautarc, ten miles beyond Kihikihi, when Frank Mason, of Mason Bios.j runholders, shot himself and his infant son. Constable Lauder went to Maungatautara immediately on receipt of tho news and returned late this evening. On entering Mason's house a ghastly aito met- his cyesi A" Httlo baby boy, an only child, aged ten months, jay in the centro of tho floor,with his head shattered by fl gunshot wound, whilst the fatkr's l*xly Iky beside the door with a billlot wound just below the loft car. Mason had been in New .Zealand about three years. His wife was in tho j house whon tho shooting took place, rnd naturally sufforod terribly,

WESTPORT. • , ir . 'July 18. Tho \ice-Consul for Norway at Wcstport has asked the Primo Minister for an inquiry into the police methods in connection with the murder case against Halinen artd Andersen, Sir Josoph Ward replied that,he had referred tho matter to tho Minister for Justice.

Tho hearing of the information lor rdloa;cd perjury against William Connelly (chief witness in . the murder rase) was commenced at 10 a.m. Theprosecution; propose 'calling over twenty witnesses, seven or'eight beinc new witnesses.

Ihn secretary laid before tho Hospital Board a rctunv of tho various dotails in connection with nine hospitals in Now Zealand. The following respectively, is the number of beds and l ho total staff employed at the institunnmcrl: Wcstport, beds 28 and stall 101 Grcymoulli, 52 and 19; llokitika, ■lO and II!; Blenheim, 41 and 16; Oamaru, 'l3 and 12; Nelson, 64 and 24; Airborne, S3 and It); Ashburton, 39 and 11; Hawera, 33 ti'nd 14. In the alleged murder charge against Connelly 1 no evidence was offered and (ho charge was dismissed. Tho perjury chargo (thirteen counts) was proceeded with., 0. E. Bowling, Clork of the Court, doposed that Connelly's demeanour in the witness-box on the ocrnsioh Was similar to that of a porson telling wilful lies. Ho hesitated, and appeared to be on his guard all the timo. Hugh Duncan, who found Bourlce in a dying condition, said his dog barked as if some other person brsido Bourko was in tho shed. Tho Court adjourned till Monday, when the prisoners Anderson and Hallincn will give ovidenco. Counsel, in his oponincr address, said a woman had come forward and made a statement to (ho Cicrk of tho Court directly implicating Connelly alone in the as-' fiault on Bourko.