CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2065, 27 April 1907, Page 3

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

His Excellency the Governor finished his tour of Central Otago last night, and left for Wellington. A winter show is to be opened in Auckland on May 22nd. An agricultural conference is to he held at the same time, which will be addressed by tiie IVlimster for Agriculture and the various experts of the Department.

During the year ended March 31st tho Wellington tramways carried 16,897,034 passengers, as against 13,596,597 last year.

The Southland Employers! Association will hold a meeting on Monday to protest against any change of the present system of observing Wednesday as the half-holiday for shops and factories. A petition will also be prepared. A verdict of •‘accidental death” was returned at tho-inquest held on tho body of Elizabeth Jordan, who was killed in a railway accident at Belfast on -Wednesday.

j Decision was reserved in tho Dunedin compensation case McKenzie v. McCnllum, a claim for £l5O in repoet of the death of claimant’s son while employed by respondent. , Tho weather at' Auckland, which had been very stormy for the past few days, moderated last night. Tho I Tnkapiinn had a rough trip down to I New Plymouth.

i The Hon. Hnil-Jones, in declining through press of business, an invitation to turn oil the Wnipori electric power, said ho had no doubt but that in the near future the development of hydro-electricity would rovoj lutioiiiso tho industries of New Zeu- ! land. He congratulated Dunedin on j its enterprise in undertaking tho | Wnipori scheme. Two men were charged at Invercargill yesterday with imposing on I a - private individual by false representations for the purpose of obtaining money, goods, and lodging on credit, they being rogues and vagabonds. Complainant (a hotelkeeper) said accused arranged for board and lodging at bis hotel, ant: left without paying. The S.M. held that no criminal offence had been proved, and dismissed the case with costs against complainant.

Mr. G. S. Muiivo states that Aleck and Co.’s exhibit at the exhibition has, so far ns lie knows, been removed. The fittings and furisliof a billiard-room keeper have, however, been detained till all account for space is paid. Mr. Munro says ho has no reason to believe tho property belongs to Aleock and Co. At a mooting held at Otantau last night a motion favoring tho freehold was passed, a somewhat ambiguous amendment being lost. The Admiral of tho Australasian squadron was in Groymouth yesterday. Ho inspected the site of tho proposed harbor at Point Elizabeth, and made enquiries as to tho depth of water, nature of bottom, and the quality of coal available. He next visits Westport.

A sample of eight tons of copper from tho Maharahara mine was sent from Woodville to Melbourne yesterday to be smelted.