YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2211, 15 October 1907, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. AUOICLAND, yesterday. A private letter states that Sprocket and Company lliave applied to Congress for a subsidy of £IOO,OOO per annum for the San Francisco maul service. If it is granted, the steamers Sierra, Sonoma, and Ventura will receive a thorough overhaul and resume running to New Zealand and Australia in February nexrt. A sharp shock of earthquake war, felt at Wlnkatano at 7.35 last night, the direction being south-west to north-east. The amount raised on Saturday

in connection with the Y.AI.C.A. building campaign was £920 19s, including a donation of £SOO from an anonymous giver, £l5O 'from .Mr T. Peacock, and £IOO from Air. H. M. Smeeton. This .brings the total up to £7675, exclusive of the estimated proceeds from tho s.ilo of the old build-

ing. The Baptist Union report on Sun-day-schools and Young .People's Committee states that thoschoolsthronghout the colony arc pursuing successful work. Newer methods of teach-

ing gradually aro being adopted, especially in- the primary and Bibleclass department. The examiners spoke most highly of the results of

tho examination. There are 54 schools,sll2 scholars, 62S teachers and officers. The Conference resolved to send delegates to the Australasian .Baptist Congress. It was resolved to approach tho Sunday School Unions of the Dominion ,to secure the holding of examinations at tho same time every year, so preventing clashing with church examination.

Edward Roberts, aged about 40 years,.was picked up by the police in Lower Queen-street on Saturday, and as be appeared to be seriously ill, a constable conveyed him .to the dis-

trict hospital, where lio died half an hour after admission. A certificate from Dr. HoopeT was found in 'Roberts’s possession, stating that ho was suffering .from heart disease. In reply to an inquiry made by the Auckland Stock Exchange as to a discrepancy in price of Tairua Triumph paid-up and ordinary shares, the secretary of that company suggested that tho question could bo better answered by some members of the Stock Exchange. It was decided to bring the matter again under the notice of the company’s directors, and let the public know there was a difference of only threepence between tho two classes of Tairua Triumph stock. A fire on the schooner Endeavor, the cause of which was unexplained, caused damago amounting' to about £IOO.

CHRISTCHURCH, yesterday. The annual meeting of the Canterbury Central Co-operative Dairy Company was held on Saturday, and was well attended. The balancesheet showed a balance to credit on profit and loss account of £5144. The usual 6 per cent, dividend was proposed. The report and balance-sheet were agreed to. The Drovers’ and Stockmen’s Union is to ;be reformed in Canterbury, not so much to deal with wages or conditions of labor, but to regulate the driving of stock so as to exclude some part of the hoy labor extensively employed at present. Many inexperienced lads are employed, and the treatment of stock is often cruel. It is suggested drivers be licensed as at Home, and also slaughtermen. 'LYTTELTON, yesterday. Michael Henry, watchman on the Harbor Board’s dredge Manchester, at Lyttelton, was found floating under fthe wharf about 5 a.m. yesterday. It is supposed that he missed his footing, and fell rin the water while stepping from the wharf to the vessel about daylight. Deceased was about 58 years of age. He was a native of Cornford, Ireland, and was an exceptionally quiet and -steady man. He had been employed on the dredge for seven years. 'DUNEDIN, yesterday.

Ail oil paintin"; that is -causing somo comment and speculation among local artists lias been discovered in possession of Mr. T. P. Beck, of Alexandra South. Many who 'have examined it express the opinion that it iis a genuine Turner. It represents a forest glade, with two large trees in the foreground, and the breaks in the forest are shown in -perspective. The painting was brought to New Zealand about 40 years ago. The work of converting ‘ “The Camp,” on the Peninsula, into an asylum for criminal lunatics lias been suspended. A second mounted corps is likely to be formed at Dunedin.

Trafalgar Day will bo -merely celebrated locally by.the Navy League’s and other flags being hoisted. Clias. McVeigh was fined 40s, and costs for permitting drunkenness on lire -licensed, premises, the Southern hotel.

-OAMARU, yesterday. The police received information this morning .that the body of James Fleming has been found in the Waitaki River, three miles from -the ford where- he -was supposed to have been washed off Inis horse on Se.pt cm her 2. The Altavady Estate, at Awamoko, has now been sold through tlie Nat-, ional Mortgage Company at the price absolutely fixed, by the trustees when the offer was made, viz., . £7 10s an acre. The purchase money totals £26,500. The transaction is one of the largest recorded in tlio district for years. The purchasers are Ruddanlclau Bros., Canterbury. GREYiMOUTH, yesterday.

The wea-ther is very .boisterous. A man named John Watson -was drowned in -Granite Creek, .Hairpin, through iliis horse stumbling .and throwing him -into the creek, which wias ill a flooded state, at the tune. At -the inquest -a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned, the jury adding a rider calling oil the authorities to erect a bridge at the site. Deceased’s parents reside -at Templetoil.