TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 19089, 3 July 1903, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Press Association.) i AUCKLAND, July 2. Ernest Cross, in tho company of his wife and child, was walking along Franklin road at 11 last night, when he wt'S attacked by two burly Indians. One rushed him, and the other attempted to secure a hand-bag lie carried. Mrs Cross screamed for assistance and they fled without the bag, which they evidently believed contained Cross' shop-takings. Cross was considerably knocked about and his wife sustained -a severe shock. WANOANII, July 2. A public trial of the motor engine imported for the lire brigade took place this aifternoon. The engine cost £1000 and is capable of pumping 21,000 gallons of water per hour. Water was thrown about twenty feet above the flag pole of the post oflice. CHHISTCI-lUUCH, July 2. The Lyttelton Harbour Board is opposed to the Auckland proposal to obtain power from Parliament to grant honorariums to chairmen cf such boards. It was stated that payment for such oilices brought in an undesirable element, for payment meant that there would be a scramble for the loaves and fishes. The Federal Cycling * Council of Australia has notified the .V.Z. League of Wheelmen that it has decided to recognise N.Z. riders competing in Australia, providing its action is reciprocated. The N./,. Council has decided to recognise Australian riders competing in New Zealand* also to call upon certain amaJteurs id- produce their trophies according to the rules. The Socialist Church this evening passed a motion in favour of the Premier's meat distribution scheme ; the profits to bo equally divided between, producers and the colony and the colony's share .to be set apart for land repurchase and. settlement. Maurice Wheeler, 50 yea ( rs of age, farmer, of Riccarton, was found dead on the railway, a hundred yards from the crossing in St. Albans. He is supposed to have beeii run over or fallen from * last night's train to Rangiora. DUNEDIN, July 2. The secretary for the colony for the Association for the Advancement cf Science has received intimation from Sir J. G. Ward that the Government is disposed to render assistance to the local cecum it tee in arranging for the meeting here in January next. The Government will place £500 on j the Estimates ; all printing will be done free of cost ; and railway passes will be ' issued to all visiting members ; and any assistance the departments can render will be cheer- ■ fully given.' At a meeting this evening it was resolved to form a committee for the purpose of enquiring as to the de-sirableness-ior? otherwise . of taking steps to bring about an amalgamation of the city and all or any of the adjacent boroughs and to indi-cate-a basis on which such amalgamation should take place. - WHAT'S IN A NAME? A' "great, teal when it cornea to a medicino. fno name TUSSICUItA on a bottle means something that 4s good. Storekeepers and Chemists are selling it everywhere, nnd know that there iSf- -nothing better for Coughsy ; Colds-, Croup, Sp.ro Throats, nllueuza, ptc u^t<;.-S.. J. EVANS, Munfactui'lug phemiflt, Vuuediu. ,- >