GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2152, 7 August 1907, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 6. The revenue of the patents office for the year 1906 was £5,641, and the jxpenditure £2,237. The surplus from the office from its commencement to January 1, 1890, was no less han £38,489. Tho number of appli:ations lodged for 1906 was 2,483. There are 67 joint agencies on tho ist. Tho Post and Telegraph Departnent is experimenting with an invention of a Christchurch mechanician in the employ of the Department, by which it is believed longdistance telephony will be greatly improved and facilitated. The invention comprises a new type of transnitter and receiver.

Sir Joseph "Ward lias tested the icheme. The Premier says he carried on a conversation with Christchurch, and thinks highly of the invention. AUCKLAND, August 6. David Walter Sullivan and Donald Wilson were charged at the Supreme Court to-day with assault with inmilt to rob one Hugh Mullin at Auckand on July 24. Both accused plealed not guilty. Sullivan was sentenced to four years’ and Wilson to 12 months’ imprisonment. Heu Heu Tawhiao, a Maori, was committed for trial from Tef Awain-

itu on a charge of theft from the person. He pleaded not guilty. He was found guilty of common larceny, vnd sentenced to three months in gaol. Mr. William Trice, who died at Turanga Creek this morning, aged

11, was tho oldest settler in the dis;riot. He left Kent, England, in 1841, and landed in Wellington with his brother, intending to settle there, but came on to Auckland six months ifterwards, and resided in the north bill the time of his death. He took i great interest in public affairs, and >vas interested in Church work in Howick and Turanga Creek districts. Charles Alfred Anderson, alias Henlerson, about 35 years of age, pleaded not guilty to charges of forgery md uttering a cheque on June 19, 1905, and of obtaining goods to the -alno of 18s Cd and £6 7s 6d in cash from Benjamin McKerras by false pretences. Prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to 12 months’ imprismment.

The prospectus of the Takapuna Tramway and Ferry Company is before the public. It is proposed to uin tram lines from O’Neill’s Point to Takapuna, and to maintain ferry lommunication there, a concession for i tramway having been obtained fron\ .lie Waitemata City Council. The body of a man supposed to he Charles Fvffe, who was lost from the mtter Flora a fortnight ago, was found near North Head this afternoon. It was not recognisable, but the clothing points to it being the body of Fyffe.

CHRISTCHURCH, August 6. The demolition of the main Exhibition Building is now practically ■omplete. This afternoon one of the two big towers was pulled bodily >ver. The anchoring apparatus was omsved and the heavy studs sawn through near the base. A steel cable .vas passed around the tower about ilidway between the base and the top, and was slowly pulled in by a team winch. The tower fell along

lie line intended with, a tremendous :rash, and was shattered to pieces. When the timber has been cleared iway the dome and the second tower rill be pulled down.