NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1849, 1 September 1906, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

I’EESS ASSOCIATION Christchurch, yesterday. John Sage has been committed for trial on charges of forgery. Ho was a canvasser lor tlio newspaper fepectator, and in advertisamont orders made alterations in the insertions and amounts, and forged the signatures to orders. Bail was allowed in £I.OO and two sureties of £SO each. The proposal to bjrrow PL-3,000 to place the Surnnor streets in repair and carry out channeling and korbing was sanctioned by the ratepayers of the borough. The voting was : Bor the loan 8 1, against 72, Ashburton, yesterday. At the Court to day, Mr Wray, S M , on the Bench, Alfred James pleaded guihy to being on premises while the police wore executing a warrant for sly grog, and was fined 203 and costs. William Bryant and Joseph Dineen, proprietors of the Ternuka brewery, pleaded guilty to s nding six packages of liquor-into Ashburton no-license d strht without properly describing the contents on the labels. They were lined 10s and costs.

Dunedin, yesterday.

An indecent picture charge against Harry Sutton, manager of the Mutoscope Company, was dismissed on the ground that the picture was not indecent.

Palmerston North, yesterday.

The death is announced of the liev. William Re all, one of the best known members of the Methodist ministry in this colony. His demise occurred at an early hour this morning at Palmerst m North, whither lie retired after relinquishing active work last year. His age was 08. He had been in charge of many circuits T n different parts of the colony, and was elected presi lent of the Methodist conferenco in ISOlj, aud chairman of tho Palmerston North district in 1892. He is survived by a vife, throe sons, and one daughter. Ono son, the Rev. R. P. KeaH, is in the Methodist ministry at Paparoa.

The toast, ot 11 The Army and Navy ” was given at a lire brigade dinner in Wanganui recently, and response was made by Lieutenant-Colonel Sommorville. who, in the course of his remarks, said that the authorities were not doing as well as they might do for the encouragement of volunteering in the colony. There were too many exactions, and the volunteers were bound down with red tape, lie declared that we wanted less of the cocked hat and more of the private in New Zealand. Some people argued that wc should adopt a form of conscription, but conscription would never be allowed in New Zealand, and was not necessary. The colony could, if necessity arose, get together 10,000 of the (inest men in the world, hut we were spending far too much on the defences within the colony ; if we had any money to spare we should spend it on the navy, which was tlic groat strength of the Empire, and to which wc should have to look for defeneo. The Government should help tho volunteers move, and above all make them good shots

To-day’s story : 11 When you go to New Zealand, I wish you would inquire after my great grandfather, Jeremiah Thompson.” " Certainly,” said lire traveller, and wherever bo went ho asked for nows of the ancestor, but without avnib O.ie d,y he was introduced to a One old Maori of advanced ng-. “ Did you evor most with an Englishman named Jeremiah Thompson ?’’ ho asked. A smile paa->rd over the Mann’s faor, " Miet him ?’ ho reponted, 11 Why, I (.to him [’’-Extract, from English p >pcr,