GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
Press Association. AUCKLAND, Oct. 7. The Y.M.C.A. twelve-day campaign for a £17,000 building fund was inaugurated to-day. Including £4OOO expected to be realised by tire sale of the property now used by_ tho Association, the first day’s total comes to £7787. In this there are three £IOOO donations from the estate of Archdeacon Williams, from the Wilson family of tho “N.Z. Herald,” and from an anonymous donor, and two donations of £250 from the Hon. Geo. Fowlds and Mr. Wesley Spragg. INVERCARGILL, Oct. 7
A man went to tho police on Saturday evening, and asked to bo locked up for fear ho should sommit some rash act. The police accommodated him and called a doctor, who said the man was suffering from tho ..effects of a. prolonged drinking bout, apd ordered him to tlio hospital. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 7. The award published prematurely this morning of the arbitrator, Mr. V.G. Day, S.M., in the disouto between the Exhibition authorities and William Minson -regarding tho conditions under which Mr. Minson undertook to provide accommodation at the exhibition for school children, which favored Minson, contained the arbitrator’s findings so far as the facts were concerned. Certain law points, however, were reserved for the opinion of tho Supremo Court OAMARU, Oct. 7. The new Municipal Opera House was opened to-day with some eclat. The Mayors of Dunedin, Invercargill, and other places were present or represented, and tho Hon. T. Y. Duncan was also present. Tho building comprises a two-storey Municipal building and Opera House. It is built of stone, and cost £9700. In the afternoon the visitors and others were entertained at luncheon, and in the evening an entertainment was held in the Opera Houso.
WESTPORT, Oct. 7, Land values in the town have risen very considerably lately. One quar-ter-acre section in the main street purchased five years ago for £SOO was valued at the Assessment Court last week at £2IOO. Other sections have sold at equally advanced prices.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2205, 8 October 1907, Page 2
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327GENERAL TELEGRAMS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2205, 8 October 1907, Page 2
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