TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2038, 25 March 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

BRIGHTON BEACH FATALITY. Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon touching the death of an eight-year-old boy named Frederick Kenneth Gourlay, who was run over by a motor cycle on the Now Brighton Beach on Friday afternoon, and killed. Evidence was given that the cyclist was travelling at tho rate of from 50 to 60 miles an hour, immediately before tho accident. Ho tried to avoid the boy, but the latter became confused and ran into the machine. After a short retirement the jury returned tho following verdict: “That the deceased met his death from injuries received by being knocked down by a motor bicycle driven at an excessive rate of speed by one William Barnard Rhodes Morhouse, and that the local body having the control of the New Brighton foreshore be urged to immediately take steps absolutely to prohibit persons driving motor cars and bicycles on that beach at an excossive, or unreasonable rate ol speed, such practice causing danger to all persons who have tho right to use such foieslioro as a place of public resort.”

As a result of the fatality tho motor races which were to have been held on the beach in the afternoon v ere postponed indefinitely.

A STRIKE FIZZLE. INVERCARGILL, last niglrt. The “strike” in the saw-milling industry as such is in the meantime a small matter. Three of the Southland saw-milling companies’ men objected to working under the recently appointed head man and converted four others to the same way of thinking. These seven gave 24 hours’ notice. The company accepted their resignations and closed down. The manager states that the mill re-opens on Monday, tho places of the men having been already filled. Several of the strikers had asked him to transfer them to other mills, but under tho circumstances he was not disposed to do so.

THE EXHIBITION. CHRISTCHURCH Last Night. The atendance at the Exhibition last week was 82,900, which brings the total to elate to 1,615,089. MINISTERS’ MOVEMENTS. • WELLINGTON, Last. Night. The Acting Premier (Hon. W. Hall Jones) returns from Chrisctliufch tomorrow. The Attorney General (Hon. lsr. Findlay) arrived from New Plymouth last evening. The. Minister of Lands (Hon. R. McNab) will leave for the South on Monday and be abso ofrftncml mfwyp cmfwy, cmfwcmc sent from Wellington until after the Easter holidays.