GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2110, 19 June 1907, Page 4

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Pross, Association.., ■\V3Si jifNGTQN, /yostortluy. At a mooting of tho;.Council of;the. Now Zealand Anuitour Rowing Association, it was rosolvod that in viow of tho repeated refusals of tho Ancle-, land Rowing Association to answer' specific questions put liy tho Council in respect to tho appeal of Waiton uta Rowing Club re a fourponny levy, tho Aucklund Roving Association bo suspondod until such time as a satisfactory roply is rccoivpd to" theso questions. A largo number of -representatives of friondly societies from various parts of the, colony have’arrived hero, to take part in .the conference’ which commoncos this I. afternoon. Tho delegates will moot tho Now Zealand Council of tho British Medical Association, and discuss subjects,-which havo for some finio pasti been in dispute botwoon the i ■ Orders and lodgo doctors.

According to statements made at a mooting of tho Hospitul Trustees today there has lately been" a large increase in the casos of sickness treated in AVollington Hospital. At present the patients number 279, in addition to 378 out-patients. Scarlot fever lias been responsible for a largo numbor of casos.

NAPIER, yestorday. A bankrupt named C. IT. Kemp, who had boon in business as a hotelkeeper, mail contractor, carrier, and sawmill owner, was committed for failing to keep proper books. HASTINGS, yost-erday. To Iknroa District Maori. Land Beard opened its sittings at Hastings this morning to hear applications for consent to leaso native lands in different parts of Hawke’s Bay, Judges Sim" and Johnstone presided. Ihaia Hutana was present as assessor. A point was raised by an opposing solicitor that Sir Robert Stout had decided that tho declaration as to the amount of land held by the natives must bo filed before a lease is approved. As this finding had not. been complied with in several cases before the Board, 'three applications wore struck out. In reference to tho AVaimarama cases, air. C. B. Morrison, on bolialf of applicant, said ho would like to address tlio Court to show that tlie declaration was not informal. The Board adjourned until to-morrow to hear Mr. Morrison.

OAMARU, yesterday. At the Magistrate’s Court Margaret Andrews was convicted of selling Honor in a no-licenso district, and firiod £lO and costs. Tho case was tho result of a police raid oil April 2Cth last, when a quantity of concealed liquor was seized. The defence was that the liquor jvas hidden by dofondant’s husband for private use, but tho Magistrate held that the latter’s evidence was not crodible, and considered the circumstances pointed t'o sale. DUNEDIN, yesterday. Judge AAHlliams granted a decree nisi in ail unopposed divorce suit Agneta AA'hencta Munro v. George Munro. on the ground of respondent’s misconduct. ITis Honor gave judgment for defendant in Bremner v. the City Corporation, in which the point at issue was whether Caversham drillslied became vested in the Dunedin Corporation as successors to the Caversham Corporation.

INVERCARGILL, yesterday. An interesting compensation case was decided by Mr. McCarthy, S.M., Albert Stevens claimed £175 from Paul Brown, of whom lio alleged be was an employee. Brown owns a flaxmill. Claimant while sawing wood for tlie mill engine sustained severe injuries to bis hand. Respondent denied liability for compensation under the Act, alleging that Stevens was no employee but a contractor. By agreement, Stevens and another were to bo paid £2O "per ton for fibre turned out by the mill, tlioy paying running expenses. Brown kept an eye on the work at the mill, and had engaged men. Claimant understood that he was covered by an accident, policy. The question was whether the agreement was a- contract. The Magistrate hold that it was, and gave judgment for respondent with £lO 16" s costs.

TIMARU, yesterday. Dr. Valintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, waited on the South Canterbury Hospital Board to-day and discussed several matters with them. Hs expressed approval of the Board’s several institutions, and said the infectious diseases hospital hero was a model ono. Discussing the treatment of incurables, he suggested that- the South Island Boards should combine and erect one institution for incurables, this to serve the whole east coast. The Inspector-General also asked the Board to consider whether is would not be better to erect an institution as a home for foundlings instead of boarding them out as at present. The Board did not think it desirable that so many children should be herded together, as they then would have no home life, and bad results were likely to accrue from associating children ol' evil tendencies with others of good character.