YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2203, 5 October 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Prosa Association. AUCKLAND, yesterday. Henry Noton, an elderly man, mho resided with Air. and Mrs Douglas in Ponsonby, met with his dealth last night under shocking circumstances. Noton, who is Go years of age, had suffered from dropsy. Last night he was visited by several relatives. About two this morning Airs. Douglas heard a noise and found Noton’s room full of smoke, and Noton prone oti the hearth with his head in tho fire. Medical mid was promptly obtained, but death had supervened. Noton was evidently seized with sudden faintness when sitting before the fire.

DUNEDIN, yesterday. In reference to itlio importation of females into New Zealand from the Home Country for tho hoot trade, the following resolution was passed by the Otago Trades and Labor Council: “That the Government be urged to give immediate effect .to ia resolution passed 'by the recent Trades .and Labor Conference, namely, that legislation he introduced to restrict the importation of labor under contract, whether male or female.” Air R. Breen, secretary of the Otago Trades and Labor Council, banded in has resignation ;as secretary. Consideration of .the matter was deferred until next meeting. The Council also passed the following resolution: “That in .the opinion of this Council the statement of the Hon. J. A.- All liar, Alin.ister of Labor, recently, at AVelliugton, .to tho effect that anybody who had been any length of time atthe business knew liow resolutions could be carried by unions, one of which had been recently passed at a meeting where there were only seven members present; is uncalled for, and this Council regrets that he should have so far forgotten himself as to ■reflect on a majority of the unions in this Dominion, to a large number of whom ho owes liis present exalted position.” . , A. betting ease occupied tho attention of A hr. AViiddowson yesterday afternoon. Arthur Decides sued Lewis Curtis for £S2 14s, the amount of a dishonored promissory note. A cheque was given as the result of moneys ■won -in wagering ovci tlio Christchurch races, hut payment was stopped. Defendant alleged this was done on t'ho authority of •plaintilr s orandfather, who expressed -tho opm* Ton that the plaintiff could not pay if he had lost. Under cross-examina-tion , defendant said he.had previously won nionev from plaintiff and been paid He denied any partnership with Ben Curtis, his father, whose . clerk lie was. Air. AleDoiiakl, defendant's solicitor, submitted that the money was Irrecoverable by law, as it was clearly given for gambling purposes. Mr. Burnside characterised the plea as contemptible. Defendant had taken plaintiff’s .nionev at different times, and as soon as lie lost declined to pay up. He must .accept a nonsuit. He submitted that as defendant was both alleging his own .wrong and committing, a breach of morals, both of the turf and the world, no costs ought to be allowed. ■V nonsuit was entered, without costs. The following resolution was passed bv tlio Otago Trades and Labor Council last evening: “That this Council expresses its sympathy with Mr. -McCullough in the treatment he lias received from the Ministry in being dismissed from his employment as a result of exercising a right which should ho the privilege of every person in the Dominion.” NEAV PLYMOUTH, yesterday. Commenting on what it describes as unmerited strictures -by the press upon the Grand Jury ill the tarring and feathering .case, the Taranaki Herald states that the jury had no evidence to warrant the finding of a true bill. There were only four witnesses named oil the indictment, the victim of the assault, the woman at whose house it occurred, her daughter, and the arresting constable. The latter arrived on the scene after the assault was committed, and could notswear that, any of the accused, weio aetuallv concerned in the assault, though" all were .present when lie arrived. The others would not or could not swear to the identity of any of the .accused, or that .they took part in tile assault, hence there was nothing to connect them with the assault. The-Judge, of course, had the real depositions of the lower Court, where positive evidence was given by the victim and woman, but the jury had no knowledge of this, or if they had, •were bound to disregard it, and decide upon .the evidence at their dispos.il. Accused were only a few of a considerable crowd that assembled on the occasion. Tlio general opinion now is .that the jury could scarcely, under the circumstances, have brought in a true bill. AYELLINGTON, yesterday. The AVomen Students’ Hostel Society lias appointed Airs. Thornton, of Dunedin, to be lady principal of the hostel for college students, which is to he opened here early next year. The price of bread lias been raised in AVellington to 4d per 21b loaf, commencing next Monday. Charles Merger, keeper of a fish and chip shop in Wellington,. was fined £25 to-day for sly grog soiling. TIAIARU, yesterday. Five railway employes engaged in the locomotive sheds have been suspended for alleged “ragging.” They are to come before the .Court on -Monday next, charged with common assault.

HAAV'ERA, yesterday. The well-known .aectioiieering firm of Nolan, Tonks, and Co. lias changed hands, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company being ■the purchasers.

Stock in this locality is suffering from the continued wcj; weather. The milk supply is badly affected. GORE, yesterday. John Gouk, about 43 years, single, ono of five sent ito South Africa v. : Ui the fourth contingent a.t the expense of the Hon. Air. AlcNab, was found dead, having apparently shot himself,' in a paddock at Merino Downs last evening. Te had not been seen since the 30th. His face was badly wounded.