DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 52, 16 October 1911, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

A NEW CONVENT SCHOOL. (Per Press Association.) Westport, October 15. ■Archbishop Redwood to-day performed the' ceremony of dedicating and opening a new convent high school, which has boarding r house accommoda T tion for eighteen pupils.' HOSPITAL SATURDAY. '.-v.,V . Wellington. October !5. The annual Hospital Saturday collections''were made m the av.ceU j voterday, and the bands are playing to-day at Newtown Park, where there is a very large' crowd of people, notwithstanding that the weather is rather * unfavourable. Yesterday’s collections amounted, to £3OO 2s lOd. . ESCAPED CONVICT REGAP- ; -TUEED. I, Dunedin, Odtober 15. . Alexander Walguist, who escaped from custody on January 21th, while being brought to Dunedin from Oamaru on a charge of robbery, was recaptured near Middlomarch yesterday. In the interval Walguist made fleeting appearances in various districts in Central Otago, but the police had been unable to catch him. J. J. BOYD’S ZOOS. , Wellington,'October’ls. iVfr“ J. J. Boyd, who has established zoos .-.at Auckland and Aramoho, is establishing another at Wainoni Park, Christchurch, which will be opened on Labour Day. The nucleus of the collection was shipped to the south on Saturday night, and comprises two lions, two tigers, two bears, two leopards, two eagles, one puiha, besides parrots and monkeys. RAILWAYMEN’S GRIEVANCES. Christchurch, October 14. A member of the A.S.R.S. informed a. reporter this afternoon that a telegram had been received from Messrs. Davey, Witty, and Isitt, M’s.P., that the Government had changed its mind regarding the hearing of the petition of the second division of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. The telegram stated that the petition would Ik heard some time next week. The non. was received with general satisfaction ■by the men, whose meeting of protest to-morrow promised to bo of a sensational character. No further action will , now be taken until the result of the hearing of the petition is made known.