WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1822, 31 July 1906, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

A MARINE PROSECUTION.

PRESS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, last night. -Liie Marine Department is proceeding jgamst the owner of the little steamer aka. wr Pckpa near Pencarrow Lighthouse recently, for allowing th'p Vessel to Leave Blenheim without a certificate. ~

SALUTORY SENTENCE.

Dealing with tho ease of a young man named A. Arthur Walsh, convicted of using obscene language in a railway carnage, and who pleaded drunkenness as an excuse, Dr. McArthur S.M., said there would be no fines for men like him, He passed a sentence of six months.

A CREMATORIUM.

Those canvassing for 'funds for tho establishment of a local Crematorium are meeting with a fair amount of success. A WELL KNOWN CHARACTER.

A well known figure about Wellington streets, Charles Evans, better known as , Cll arlie;,” died in the hospital, apd, io. Evans led an adventurous life, lie was a son of :l n alderman of London ami was educated at King’s College, and at a Trench University. Ho joined the early rush to the Australian goldfields, and took part m the defence of Eureka stockade. Subsequently lie worked as a miner on nearly all the New Zealand goldfields, being a familiar figure in all parts of the p ony Dunug his early days he brought to the \\ est Coast the first brass band that ever visited the West Coast of the'Colony. oi sonic years piist lie lias been in receipt of local eharitv. ' .