GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11587, 27 February 1901, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION'.} Ltlsborxe, Tuesday. Mr. Burton*, S.M., ordered a fresh election for borough representatives on the harbour Board, on the ground of irregularities in that the returning officer voted, and that he added votes not deposited in the proper ha lot-box. At the Harbour Board meeting to-day there was no seconder to the motion by the chairman, that steps be taken to change the name ot Poverty Bay to Victoria Bay. Napier, Tuesday. On Thursday, evening an elderly man named Edward Malley, tormerly belonging tc the 65th Regiment, was. found in a. halfdemented state wandering amongst the j-andhills at Porangahau. When found he had been without food for five or six days, and had been drinking sea water on the .beach. He was found to be of weak intellect, and was conveyed to the Wellington Asylum. Wanganui, Tuesday. At a meeting of ratepayers to-night authority was given for taking a poll on the question of raising z, loan ox £30,000 for the purpose of purchasing and municipalising the local gas works. Wellington", Tuesday. Alfred Rayner, a labourer, residing at Trentham, cut his throat with a razor on Monday night, but is now recovering. A schoolboy, while playing in the Clyde quay reserve this afternoon, found the dead body of a female infant a day or two old under a tree. The girl, Maud McDonald, whose skull was fractured in the trap accident on Lambton Quay on Monday, is progressing favourably. It was decided by the Benevolent Trustees yesterday to devote £1500 to the renewal of buildings. The reduction of expenditure under the new system of management represents a saving to the ratepayers in two years of £2500.

CHRiSTCHTJitcH, Tuesday. Mr. F. Waymoutb has been elected chairman of the Lvttelton Harbour Board.

Dunewn', Tuesday. Mr. John Rogers, city engineei of Brisbane, was last night selected for the position of engineer of Dunedin. At a meeting last night it was decided to form a Young Men's Christian Association, and a constitution was adopted. The old association of the same name died many years ago. A meeting of the Dunedir Sbet'anders resolved to invite subscriptions throughout the colony to alleviate the distress of widows and children left destitute through the loss of so many breadwinners in the recent appalling fishing disaster on the Shetland Coast. At the Supreme Court James, White and Frank Watson were arrainged on a charge of attempting to steal from J. A. Braithwaite £109 13s 4dl, in money. White, who was out on bail, did not appear, and the bail was estreated. ■In Watson case the jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and accused was discharged.