LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12585, 16 October 1911, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

CPer Press Association.)

WELLINGION, -last night. The annual Hospitals %Saturday collections were made m the streets yesterday, aud the bands are playing this afternoon at Newton Park, where there is a very large crowd of people, not-w-ithstamting that the weather is rather ■unfavorable. Yesterday's collections amounted to £300 Zs lOd. ■ • . DUNEDIN, last night. & Alexander Walquist, who escaped from on January 24th, while being to Dunedin from Oiunaru to be" tried on a charge of robbery, was re,v yestfefcday. ; m the interval, Walquist "made fleeting'" V a PPea_u>ces m various districts m Ce'n- ', V^go, but the police had been unable to catch him. ;r4. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. Mr J. J. Boyd, who has established zoos at Auckland and Aramoho, is establishing another at Wamoni Park, Christchurch, which will be oDened on J>abor Day. The nucleus of tiie collection was shipped to the south on Saturday night, and comprises two "lions, two tigers,, two bears, two leopards, two eagles, and one puma., besides parrots and monkeys. A member of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants informed a reporter this afternoon that a telegram had been received from Messrs T. H Davey, MP., and G. Witty, M.P., and lx M .Isitt, M.P., stating that the Government had changed its mind regarding the hearing of the petition ot the second division of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. The telegram stated -that the petition would be heard some 'timet 'next week. The news was received with general satisfaction by the men, whose meeting of protest to-morrow promised to be of a sensational character. No further action will now be taken until the result of the in 8 of tne Petition is made known. The southerly storm which the Dominion Meteorologist yesterday (a hot summer-like day) announced would spread over New .Zealand was not long m making, its .appearance. At an early hour last evening, the wind changed trom the north-west to the south, and the mischief was done. The evening's breeze changed to a gale during the night, but this morning broke fairly fine. Towards noon, however, there 71f c £ ng laces as °° ld showers of rain jfe,ieli. .fcrom other parts v>f Canterbury R ..:■ .oanis -report* of bold weather, with, snow and bitter winds m the hiffh 1 country. Two inches of snow lay on the ground at Bealey at 9 o'clock to-

a uv L WESTPORT, last night. . Archbishop Redwood to-day performed the ceremony of dedicating and opening the new Convent High School, wnich has boarding accommodation for lo pupils.