LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1820, 28 July 1906, Page 3

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

VKKSS ASSOCIATION Christchurch, last night. F. EL Bruges, solicitor, and J. GoodmaD, clerk, appeared at the Police Court on remand to-day on the charge of stealing the moneys of a client totalling £1327. They were further remanded till Wednesday. Dunedin, last night. At the Alexandra Poultry Show the Bouth Island Championship for fantail pigeons was won by James Hay, Inand the championship for modern game by P. Kennedy, Kangiora. A lad about Iff years of age, son of i Mr George Gaudin, sawmiller at Makaroa, Central Otago, was drowned on Monday. He was rafting timber with his father. When approaching Makaroa the raft upset and the boy was drowned. ’ (• Edgar Turner was charged at the Police Court this afternoon with having on March Ist, at Dunedin, forged the name of Brown to a telegram addressed to Brown and Coates of Sydney, requesting them to cable the sum of £ls, with intent to defraud Brown and Coates. Accused, who had been commercial traveller for an American firm of bootmakers who afterwards appointed Brown and Coates as agent, met Brown in Dunedin, and saying he was hard up, sought to borrow £l. He then, it is alleged, sent a cable to Sydney to send £ls to Brown at the Criterion Hotel, and on the cable arriving, is alleged to have received the money. Accused was committed for trial, bail being granted at £l5O, and two sureties of £75 each.

Timaru, last night. The Harbor Board to day resolved to introduce two Bills next session, one to. increase the membership, giving two more members to the country

rating district, and tho other to set up a commission of inquiry as to the terms on which the Waimate Borough should be included in the rating district, with the alternative of differential wharfage rates on goods to and from the Borough, and the general alternative of a mutual agreement. The engineer submitted a plan and estimate for a wharE alongside the Nort Mole to cost £23,000. Consider* ation was deferred.