GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2121, 2 July 1907, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, yesterday. Michael Foggerty, a man found in a sly-grog shop on a recent raid by tho police, was charged boforo Mr. Day. S.M., with boing an idlo and disorderly person, and an associate of thieves and vagabonds. On this chargo ho was sentenced to ono month. Tho chargo of boing fond in a sly grog shop was withdrawn by tlio police. . OAMARU, yestorday. Tho Harbor Board to-day appointed G. A. Iv. Darbyshiro, at present employed ill tho railway engineers department, Dunedin, to tho position of secretary and engineer, OAMARU, last night. The records of tho police courts show that in 1906-7, under no-licenso, there wore 134 convictions, against 352 for tho provious year. Out of 49 aplicants from all over the colony Mr. G. A. Iv. Darbyshiro was to-day appointed secretary and engineer to tho Oamaru Harbor Board. AUCKLAND, yesterday. A carpenter named Bertram or John Ferguson, aged about 59, supposed to have come from Thames ( committed suicide at West Tamala by taking rat poison. He suffered from a bad leg, and left a lotter indicating his intention to take his own life.

AUCKLAND, last night. Tlio vital statistics for tho month ended June 30th for Auckland show

that 207 births were registered, a decrease of 23 compared with Juno last year. One hundred _ and four deaths wore recorded, an increase of 24. One hundred and ono marriages wore solemnised, on increase of 14. The figures for the quarter show 1310 births registered, an increase of 10 compared with the corresponding period. The deaths totalled 550, an increase of 45, while 585 marriages were solemnised, an increase of 64. HOKITIKA, vesterdav. The harbormaster at Okauto char-

ged Chas. Chinn, owner of the oillaunch Nita, with failing to havo two approved lifebuoys aboard oil the occasion of tlio Krangarua fatality oil Mav lltli, when two men were drowned. A conviction was recorded with a fine of 20s and costs £l4 14s. DUNEDIN, last night. Wlion the steamer Taviuni was coining into tile harbor this morning early she fouled the brigantine Pendlo Hill, anchored in the powder ground. The jibbooni of the Pendle Hill and her liead-gear were carried away, but no severo damage was done.

INVERCARGILL, last night. . The celebration of tho anniversary of no-licenso was held to-night under the auspices of tho Temperance Reform Council. Speeches by temperance leaders occupied most of the ovening.

NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. During the half-year ended June 30th there were 171 births, o 7 marriages, and 44 deaths in Now Plymouth. Compared with tho same period of 1906 this is an increase of 13 marriages and 20 deaths, and a decrease of 20 births. AUCKLAND’S TRADE. Press Association. AUCKLAND, last night. Customs duties collected at tho port of Auckland for the month of June amounted to £54,407, as compared with £50,738 for the corresponding month of last year. Beer duty amounted to £IBO6, an increase of £220. There was.a falling-off in tho export of precious metals. Exports of produce, etc., show an increase in the aggregate.

A NURSE TO THE RESCUE. The “New Zealand Times” of June 24th says;—A shocking caso of neglect of an infant has been reported to u by the senior district nurse attached to the St. John Ambulance Association. It forms a striking commentary upon the slum conditions that exist in Wellington. , It ..seems that complaints were made to our informant of the cries of a baby being beard in a certain house. She visited the place—an ill-kept hovel—ostensibly to see one of her patients who resides there with the mother of a twelve-month-old baby girl. The nurse dieovered the infant referred to in a. dirty, dark, back room. It was one mass of filth from head to heels, and was lying neglected in clothes stiffened and grimy with dirt. To bathe the miserable mite its clothes had to be cut off with scissors. It was then dieovered that its body was fearfully emaciated. Signs were found of it having been' injudiciously fed, but; it was in a state of semi-star-vation. The nurse, who had gone provided with fresh clothes, having given the child a disenfectant bath (soap and water having revealed the fact that its hair which at first looked black was in reality golden), dressed and took it to a doctor for examination. The medical man readily consented to certify that the bab’y’s condition warranted it being sent to to a receiving home. After returning the infant to its mother, and warning tho latter to take better care of it, the nurse proceeded to the police station and laid the facts of the case before a responsible officer.