GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2169, 27 August 1907, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Press Association.

ASHBURTON, August 26. Tlio National Mortgage and Agency Co. have purchased the- business of Mr. David Thomas, auctioneer, woolbroker and general merchant, as a eotng concern; .The business is one of the oldest' in Ashburton, having b<K?nVestablished over thirty years Tlio Borough Council propose to raise a loan of £20,000 for a highprcssuro water supply. INVERCARGILL, August 26. Frederick Thomas Dart was arrested at Bluff to-day on a charge of obtaining goods in Dunedin by false regarded as confirmatory evidence of the fato of the tourist North who disappeared in the Greenstone district some time ago is the report that a run-holder lias found at the junction of the Greenstone and Cable Rivers some straps, part of a shirt and a bag supposed to Have been part of North s equipment. DUNEDIN, August 26. At the invitation of the board of the Y.M.C.A. about 150 representative citizens attended a dinner to-night . to inaugurate the building campaign of the Y.M.0.A., v which hopes to raise £17,000 within fourteen days for the erection ot a new building. Donations and promises already amount to £3600, including three donations of iIUUU each—cue from Mr. P. R. Sargood, one a bequest by the late Archdeacon Williams and the other contribution by a leading business man in Dunedin. Mr. Jas. Allen, M.H.R.._ lias given £IOO, Mr. H. K. Wilkinson has promised £SO and Mr. Paterson has promised at least ±,ouu. Tlio meeting passed a resolution endorsing the action of the Y.M.C.A. and pledging itself to co-operate m every possible way.