GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11780, 9 October 1901, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Tijiartj, Tuesday. The Hospital Board to-day, as a way out of the difficulty caused by a difference with the honorary visiting staff to the hospital, appointed a qualified resident assistant at £100 a year as an experiment.

New Plymouth, Tuesday. In the Divorce Court a decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, was made in the case of George Williams v. Jane Williams and A. E. Lake, co-respondent. In the divorce case Lock against Lock, wife's petition, a decree nisi was granted, with the custody of the children.

Asiibu-rtok, Tuesday. A conference of delegates of branches of the Farmers' Union in Canterbury was opened at two o'clock to-day. Thirty delegates were present. Mr. Leadley was elected chairman- The proceedings are expected to occupy two days. Wellington-, Tuesday. One hundred and five new" estates were placed under the charge of the Public Trust Office during September. The average number is about forty per month. A young man, Daniel Woods, recently from Hawke's Bay, was admitted into the hospital in a critical condition, from a dose of spirits of salts.

Tijlartt, Tuesday. The hospital Board to-day absolved to oppose the Waimate Hospital District Bill for making the Waimate Hospital an independent institution, with the Waimate County as its district, until the boundary has been settled with equitable consideration for the respective burdens of the two districts.

Christ-church, Tuesday. Dr. Dendy, professor of biology at Canterbury College, has been studying New Zealand lampreys caught in the Mataura and sent to him. He has discovered a single eye on the back of the head, and has also come to the conclusion that instead oi there being two distinct genera of lampreys, there are three forms, through which they pass in the process of development. r

Mr e. W. Geil, who is touring the world and inquiring into the conditions of the aboriginal races, is in Christchurch, and states that missionary work is being carried on successfully at "Samoa and Fiji He ha seen much drunkenness among the Maoris in the North Island

■vr ... Duxedix, Tuesday. dominations of candidates for the Drainage Board for the city am' suburbs, constituted under the Act of last session, took place to-day, when 29 were nominated foi nine seats. The names include those of well-known commercial men and two medical men. Several suburban mavors and councillors are on the list