Carrol! this afternoon: — "Following cablegram just received from Lord Kitchener : 'Fol lowing wounded in action, 29th Novem ber, progressing satisfactorily, with the exception of Lieutenant Somerville and Private Goldstone, who are seriously ill : Captain Crawshaw, abdomen, slight; Surgeon-Captain Godfray, thigh, slight; Lieutenant Somerville, arm, severe ; : Montgomerie, hip, slight ; Tucker, abdo- * men, slight; Private G. Tille (Hffle V ; hip, severe ; J. Goldstone, forearm, se vere ; Mcßride, leg, severe ; others, slight- j ly -founded, are doing well.' " 1

A number of people have been scour ing the district in the "hope of securing w the Borough Council's prize of £50 for Itl the suggestion -of a site as the source of ac a water supply that will meet with the I acceptance of the ratepayers. Several jt] suggestions have already been handed in I s i to the Town Clerk. \ m Tlie seating arrangements at the I Theatre Royal for the "Messiah" concert ' ; r will be specially good, and provision is 2 being made for the comfortable reception ni of a large audience, which, to judge w from the booking on the plan at Messrs. t) Chrisp and Sons', is assured. The seat- c i ing of the performers will also be a w feature of the concert. There being b over 120 vocalists and instrumentalists, v provision has to be made for their ac- jj conunodation. j, Summing up in Stoke oases, Mr Justice : Edwards, who has a caustic tongue on ' j occasions, was veiy sarcastic in his z-efer- t ences to the boy witnesses. "These young ' \ gentlemen," was his almost invariable ' p way of referring to them. In the first ' Q case heard, the principal witness .was re- ! r ferred to variously as "Mr Owens," "this ' c young gentleman," and "this bashful and unoffending young gentleman." His Honor spoke of the way in which the boys had been run after by the police — whom he did not blame — and others, and said they had acquired an importance which they were never likely to have again. The talented Oonick Family arrive by the Elingamite from Auckland on Wed nesday afternoon, and commence their S three-night season in the Theatre Royal I in the evening. 