GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2220, 25 October 1907, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 24. The visit of Her Excellency Lady Plnnket, honorary colonel of the Second North Canterbury Mounted Regiment to the regiment’s headquarters at Culverden, is likely to result in much general good to the mounted volunteers by increasing the interest in them. That Ludv Plunket is no ornamental officer is shown by tho keen interest she takes in the general work of tho force. She has presented a handsome shield for competition -among tho mounted volunteers of the Dominion, and has asked that tho first competition he held on a Canterbury ground. The conditions will ho framed by Colonel Davies, and the competition is suggested to take place about March or April. TIMAIIU, Oct, 24. At the Magistrate’s Count this afternoon, Leonard Burke, a youth of 19, a native of Christchurch, pleaded guilty to charges of (1) breaking i>io and stealing from Washdyke railway station £2 odd in money, a number of tickets, and a bicycle; (2) placing an obstruction on the raii.vay, viz., a rail across the track at one spot and a big stone a.t another. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The bicycle he left in Timaru, some of the tickets he put into the date stamp, dating only one end, however, and on one of them ho travelled to Dunedin and back. He kept another in his boot and throw the rest away. He was caught by tho guard of tho express through using the stolen ticket. Though he pleaded guilty he intimated that lie had nothing to do with tho obstructions on the line.

AUCKLAND, Oct. 24. Norman Iveir, who was until a week ago in partnership with Mr. Thomas Poyntor in a general ea.iTvaiig business here, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver in the Domain to-day. In a letter to bis landlady he stated that business worries had necessitated his taking an extreme course, and he also mentioned where his body would hr found. Deceased leaves a wife and child. ’ ■

INVERCARGILL, Oct. 24. A case under the Juvenile Smoking Suppression Act was decided b.v ■the Magistrate to-day. A boy under 15 was charged with smoking a cigarette on the stair leading to the dress circle of the theatre. The magistrate held till l l this was not a buplic place within the meaning of the Police Olfehces Act, and dismissed the case. If the Smoking Prevention Act was to he effective, he said, it should be made to apid to anybody found smoking no matter where. In the meantime the Act must remain to a largo extent a dead letter. WELLINGTON, Oct. 24. Government offices throughout the Dominion will bo closed on Monday, November 24, in celebration of the King’s Birthday. Tho Gazette contains regulations for the netting and sale of sea trout. The season opens on November Ist, and closes on the last day in February.