GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2166, 23 August 1907, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. OAAIARU, August 22. A young man named Affix. Russell, a farm hand, has disappeared, tlio only article of his property that he took with him being a razor. The police are trying to trace his whereabouts. He had been depressed for a few days. WELLINGTON, August 22. ' 'The secretary of the General Post Office is informed that messages to New Y k and Boston ran be accepted via Eastern as usual. They can also be accepted to other places in the United States at senders’ risk and subject to delay. Messages to San Francisco can be accepted via Eastern and Alanila at a rate of 6s 4d per word. To r night’s Gazette notifies the following .appointments:—Air. H. W. Brabant, S.M., to be Chairman of the Napier and Hawke’s Bay Licensing Committees, vice Air. E. C. Cutten, S.AI.; Rev. Nicolas AI. Alaloney, to he manager of St. Joseph’s Industrial School, Wellington ; Lieut.-Colo-nel Alfred Headland, Otago Rifles, transferred to active list unattached. The Gazette notifies that the Government has forbidden the registering, forwarding or delivery of correspondence for the Botanic Institute, Sydney, the Cooper Drug Co., Sydney, Arthur Hale, Castlereaglustreet, Svdney, Harvard Remedy Agency, Sydney, Dr. Martin, Hyde Park, Sydney. CHRISTCHURCH, August 22.

The foundation-stone of the municipal tepid baths was laid tlii6 afitern<The sitting of the Agricultural Implement Board, to inquire into the allegations by local implement manufacturers of unfair competition on the part of the International Harvester Co. has been adjourned till September 16th. Tbe matter was to have been inquired into on Alonday.

AUCKLAND, August 22. Interviewed in regard to Dr. Bakewell’s statement by a Herald reporter thi.; evening, Dr. Chalmor Purchase absolutely denied that he had, after examination of Dr. Bakowell, discovered, as alleged by him, anything_in the way of a cancerous growth, which according to Dr. Bakowell was subsequently cured by hypnotic suggestion.