TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10999, 31 December 1897, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

(Per United'Fbess Association.)

WEixiN'GTON, December 30,

Mesirs J. H. Lowe («biof engineer of working railways) arid T. F. Rofcheram (locomotive superintendent) have gone to Tufcaekara to cpnduct a departmental inquiry ,infco the circumstances tinder which, a brake van bec»me derailed on the day of the opening of the railway to Woodville. . The Land Board to-day Approved of the subdivision and pi'ices of an estate of 300 acres purchased by t.he Government under Shu Lands for Settlement Act for the purposes of establishing workmen's homes at Johusonyille. It ww stated that there bad besn many iuquiries for the. land, and that as the prices would be a^oub £9 to £10 per acre, a workman would find it cheaper to purchase a house and land in th°, estate than to rent a house in Wellington. Some 50 men were now working on the estate. The rangers reports noon the village settlements in the Mnktur Block were of. a most encouraging, nature. ; ■ Dr Archer Hosking, while surgically examiuing an nmputs.t«d limb ifter a recent operation st Masterbou Hospital, slightly screened his liaud with the dissecting knife. Yesterday blood poisoning symptoms became so serious that he decided to go to the "Wellingcon Hospital for special serum treatment, the remedy not being available in Mastertou. A comparison of the returns of the Car.shmas postal and telegraphic traffic 3hows that Wellington had ii suostantial lead in the amount of both postal Jind telegraphic work put through.