DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16462, 14 June 1919, Page 6

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

CAPTURE OF ESCAPED PRISONER. Per Press Association. HAMILTON, June 14. ■ James Irwin, who escaped from the Waikaria Prison Camp, was captured by the police at Kawhia. POSTAL EMPLOYEES. NELSON, June IS. The local branch of the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association adopted a resolution recording dissatisfaction with the new classification of the service. / THE STRANDED KOWHAI. WELLINGTON, June 13. News to-day states that the Terawhiti is alongside the stranded steamer Kowhai. Operations will depend bn the weather conditions. The sea has moderated. A DRAPER’S WILL. WELLINGTON, June 13>, The will of the late Thomas Brown, of Brown, Ewing and Co., drapers, has been sworn for probate at £140,000. The following public bequests have been made: Trustees of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, for Sunday school purposes, £500; Presbyterian Church of .New Zealand aged and infirm ministers fund, £SOO ; to the General of the Salvation Army for Army rescue work within New Zealand, £500; Presbyterian Social Service Association, £1000; Knox College Council, £100; Anglican Cathedral, £100; Conservation Society, £100; ,‘Barnardo Homes, Xjondon, £1000; Art Gallery, £500; Institute for Deaf and Dumb (Sumner), £1000; Jubilee Institute for the Blind (Auckland), £1000; Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, £1000: maintenance by the Presbyterian Social Service Association of the Ross Home, £1000; Society for the Protection of AVomen and Children, £250) Shipwreck Relief Society, £250; Y.M.C.A., £400; Y.AV.C.A., £250; Red Cross Society, £500; also £IOOO to the vicar c* the parish of Wooller (Northumberland) for the poor of the town.