NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 569, 26 July 1909, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(By Tclceraplj.-l'reEs Association.!. ; OBITUARY. Gore, July 24. The death occurred at Rivcrsdale this morning of Mr. Wilson Hall. He had been in .failing health for about a fortnight, but ! his end ivas unexpected. Mr. Hall was raarriritl in 1880 to o, daughter of the. late Mr. D.'" Mnnson, Rivcrsdale, and is survived by a ) wife, two eons, and four daughters. In agricultural and pastoral matters Mr. Hall was a man of Jteen discrimination and great enterprise. His death removes one of the best-ltnoivn agriculturists'in Southland. ATTEMPTED BUICIDE. Dunedln, July 24, A man named Robert Lawson, steamboat fireman, who had been living ashore for about h month, and who had )*:cn drinking, attempted to commit suicide on Saturday afternoon.by shooting himself with a pistol. Some friends hrsard the report of the shot arid found him bleeding freely with a wound in the cheek. He was removed to the hospital. The bnlkt haa not yet been extracted, but it is not expected that the wound will prove fatal. :■, THE RAILWAY SERVICE, . Wanganul, July 24. Regarding the d«ptite_ between the Amalgamated Si'./akij oi Railway a.nd tbs Kngme-dri«*3.', YitttcAti, awl Cleaneri' i rttsc/CJatisn, Mr. f>, Brow., president of t'ie | .latter, -Apeafcing to a. Ctirki&liiircfc preas-' I man Jaat w«;ic, » refarivl %t, hw. ridiculed I thft challenge ci Mr. ¥/*, A, .Vefoife, preaii dent of the A.S.It.S, to &&at«: the- tw'nt* *t iMc«, wiring tpfij - Li 4 W,n rffttiafeti ail over I thft J)orfiink/n. and * victory for fti.t ! ga&ea&trsn* Mr. Yf.iich. re&eftz tJc±zt, . tk<* Ithalk-nge is still r,f«f. : , Mr. Erwa is (jGito j>reflss*nns in ch-iTiihz a. victory, arf'iing thztithsA. ?,<w<i pr<wei e;wlu3tWl7 ! tbst «fcctton&lt«a wa.i R»>i a. fiilnr*;. Ea* I a corse, ar«-J that the railw*?K*n -wsTf/wers* I off where it 'izutud vhnz azijlgittaixiL TS* [ Tinioa .(fefe&iei tfcstr for esitthioe*j tion was the first priscipfe c; truMawm^ 1 - MAKHIKC BECOtATfOKS;--'Aw&laaf, JdySt I In ai&iiian. to requiring the teg Ctarapioa, onward feotmd to te cari7 I eight more rcsn in her ctsw than en her I voyage to this port, the Cnstotnj atrthonties adopted a similar coarse fn regard to t&ft ! Norwegian schooner Alice, trading fcetweea I the Cook Islands and Auckland. Hitherto she has been manned below Jfew Zealand requircments. ■ . . CHARCE V/ITHDRAV/M. » Hokitik2, July 24. : . A. JTeedham was charged this morning al the Magistrate's Court, on remand from Wellington, with attempting to leave New Zealand without making provision for an unborn child. The prosecution offered no corroborative evidence, and asked 'cave to withdraw the charge, which was granted. INCOME TAX. • ' Auckland, July 24. .- Before the tug Champion left for Sydney, towing the disabled barque Leicester Castle, ! to-day, the captain had to deposit £2 10s. to cover income tax on the probable profits of undertaking. The captain lodged a letter of protest, which he forwarded to the Commissioner of Customs. ; ' " ■ CHEAPER CABLES. ; : . Dunedln, Jnly 24. Dr. Findlay, Acting-Postmaster-General, has agreed to reduced terminal charges on land wires, which will enable press cable rates with England to be reduced from a shilling to ninepence per word, from August,