LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2954, 28 November 1900, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Per Press Asoeiation. AUCKLAND, November 27. News by the Rotokino from Fiji states that the Russian ship Occident, bound from Hamburg to China with coal and stores for the Russian warships, took lire on November 10th, and was beached in Alacolola Passage. On November 17th the vessel was abandoned. Everything was gutted. The ship and cargo are insured. The ship was sold for the benefit of the underwriters, and was bought by the Union Company for £IBO. WELLINGTON, November 27. A cablegram has been received that Dr W. A. Logan, formerly of the Dunedin Medical School, and late surgeon in the Dunedin hospital, a son of Mr J. K. Logan, superintendent of telegraphs, has passed his final examination for F.R.C.S., London. The writ in connection with the vacancy in the representation of the Northern Maori district, caused through the bankruptcy of Mr Hone Heke, will be issued in a few days. Mr Bloomfield, S.AL at the Ray of Islands, has been appointed Returning Officer At a meeting of shareholders to-night of the Gear Meat Company, the resolutions passed at a jwevious meeting increasing the company’s capital, were confirmed. The chairman explained that the dividend for the year would be upon the £46,000, not on the increased capital, for lha raising -of which authority had now been given. WESTPORT, November 27. Applications for the position of matron of Westport Hospital were received from all over the colony. At a marling tonight, on the casting vote of (he chairman, Miss Hayward, of Ginistchurch, was appointed to the) position. CHRISTCHURCH, November 27. At the Magistral's Court to-day, a man named Ross was charged wdh having made a- bet with a minor. After the evidence had been heard, Air Beetham said that he would dismiss the case. Such cases were simply a tissue of lies. The fact was that gambling was demoralising the community, and the root of the wlrn’o evd was the totalisator. The thing was simply sickening. The application of Styche for a new trial will not come before the Court of Appeal when it resumes in December, but will be ht'cight forward at the sitting in March.

Detective Chrystall arrested a steward tfti board the Rotoinahana this morning on a charge of bigamy, it being alleged that he had married in Dunedin while his first wife was still residing in Tasmania. The man whose name is J. S. Mercer was brought up at the Police Court to-day and remanded to Dunedin.