WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1875, 3 October 1906, Page 4

WELLINGTON NEWS.

I'IiKSS ASSOCIATION Wellington, Inst nigh) At tin! nnnun! morting of tho Now Zoa* laud Rowing Association tho bnlanoo short Hhovvoil u on il't of L 77, with no liabilities. Tho following tllio ■■'oiuors worn t loctoJ ; —Uon. Wigrum, president ; Messrs Mam'iioc (Auckland), Myots (Duni din), vioo presidents; onunoil, Mosers OolToy (Canterbury), Isuuoa and MoVilloy (Otago), Campbell (Auckland), Widdop and Morris) (Wellington), Laughlan (Wang vi:u), A now 1 ulo was added that all regatta pr*Z) money bo pail within a month of tho regatta, provide i that any tnonoy in disputu bo lodge cl with tho council until tho disputo ij eotilod. It was deoided that weight limit beats of maiden raoos bo romovod from tho rules. It was doeidod that tho next championship regatta bo hold at Lake Forsyth not oarliur then February Ist. Stvoral dolegatos spoko of tho wr.nt of consideration shown in tho past by Cantoibury oilioials to visiting rowing men, and at timeß tho dobato was very heated.

"(Tho obiof valu e of deceased porsons estates eerliCed to by tho Saoretory ftr Stamps during Siptembor won: —Roboil Strnthore, Canterbury, LTl.iiilG ; John G. Thomas, Westland, L 28.633 ; William OfmUnors, Wellington, L1G,952; Henry Ball, Blenheim, L 13.078 ; Henry 8, Uiummond, Willington, L 13.446 ; Thos, Walker, Auckland, L972G ; Eefcer Busboll, Otigo, L 7920; Andrew Mathoson, Westland, 11,7514; Frank Thomas, Wellington, L 5609.

Tho Govormnont havo doo’.ined to subsidiuo subecripliorjs ruised hero for the establishment of a c matorium on tho grounds that a preoedtiit would bo sot up. Already LB 12 has been eubeoMbod. In the Magistrate's Court Marion May Emmons was charged with the murdor of hor infant daughter, found doad in a oask of limo and wator at tho rrar of Mawson’s oonfeotionovy shop, Cuba street, Evidonco was given that tho girl, who was a dim st o eoivant at Mawson’s, hod recently given birth to a elrld. Medical ovidenoo went in tho direction that the child had breathed, and death was duo to fracturo of the skull. Tho one was adjourned until to morrow afternoon. Tho export of gold from Now Zealand for tho nine months of the present year was 412,029;z, valued at L 1,663.137, beiDg an inoroase of 16 8990 z, of tho value of L 79.844, compared wi h tho figures for the corresponding p : iod of last year. Tho quantity of gold sent out of tho colony last month was 41,660. z, valued at L 167,757, an against 59,008. z, valued at L‘287,080, in September last year.