YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2226, 1 November 1907, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. AUCKLAND. The Court of Enquiry into two fires on tho schooner Endeavor found a verdict of incendiarism against an unknown person or persons. DUNEDIN. The 41b loaf will bo raised to 8d to-morrow. The Dunedin branch of the Independent Political Labor League decide to instruct local delegates at a conference at Christchurch next week to support a resolution that the 'branches throughout New Zealand lie henceforth known as tho Socialist Labor party of New Zealand.

At tho annual meeting pf tho D.I.C. yesterday, the chairman (Mr Hart) said the business was steadily increasing, and the company had earned about £2OOO lnoro net profit than iii the previous year. Tho whole of the preference capital had now been paid up, shareholders holding 13,707 ordinary shares paid up ; there was an uncalled liability of 5s per share. (The company bid never been in a sounder position than it occupied to-day, and the' prospects of the immediate future were very hopeful. The retiring directors (Messrs' W. Fells and E. J. Ha lionstein) were re-elected. Mr Roderick McKenzie, late of Blackmonnt and Birchwood stations, has purchased Bushey Park estate, the property of the late Mr John .McKenzie, and oil which the memorial ea.ir.ii.iio. v .th < it_ statesman was erected. BuOhoy""' Park - contains 2200 acres of first-class land, and was under offer to the Government. Tho prico is" stated to be in the vicinity of £ls per acre. Tho Anglican Synod passed a resolution to-dt.iy: “That this Synod protests most strenuously against the passing of a separate .Endowment School Bill, the principle of which is tile confiscation of all religious educational endowments, not only of the Anglican, but all other denominations, and it urges all members of the Church to oppose the Bill and its principle in every possible manner. ”lt was further decided thatcopies of the resolution ho forwarded to the Minister of Education and Otago and Southland members of Parliament. NEW PLYMOUTH.

A convict named Charles Newman, alias Murray, serving a term of six years for theft amd burglary, escaped from a gang working on the sewage works outside the local gaol this morning. Two shots fired by tlio warders were unheeded, but lie was captured shortly afterwards while hiding in a. rubbish heap’. He had mado several previous attempts to escape from various gaols.

At tlie Stratford Police Court yesterday, Ewen Hannan Hill was charged with haying, -at 0 puna Ice, on Jlav 6th, delivered a telegram to a public official for transmission signed with a fictitious name.. Hull was the victim of the recent notorious Opunake tarring and feathering case. Some time previously liill was horsewhipped by a Hawera man, because of his unwelcome attentions to his wife. The horsewhipper was commended for his conduct by tfio Magistrate. Tlho tarring and ‘eat tiering practically arose out of the public knowledge of that case, aggravated by his alleged conduct ait Opunake. The telegram which was t'ho subject of the present ease was sent to the Hawera man, previously referred to, and reflected on his wife, who was that day in Opunwke. Accused pleaded guilty. The. deteotive poi infeed. o-ufc tlxat accused was practically an outcast from society, and was shunned 1 both employers and employees. The Bench .pointed out tlho seriousness of the offence, but said that accused would be dealt with very leniently, as lie no doubt had a trying time recently. His heat plan, when his term expired, would bo to leave tlie colony. He was sentenced to four months with hard labor. WANGANUI. A poll was held to-day on the proposal to raise a. loan of £SOOO, in addition to the £40,000 already authorised, for the electric tram service. Tbo proposal wa.s carried by GBG to 399. MASTERTON. The Masterton police are at present engaged in endeavoring to til.ice tlie whereabouts of a young man named Ernest Ryall, who has been missing from Masterton since Saturday last. Ryall is 25 years of age, mid recently arrived in New Zealand. Ho has a. brother in Nelson, to whom it is stated he forwarded Ills bank pass-book shortly before his disappearance, together with a letter, in which it is alleged he spoke of lids intention to take a dose of chlorodyne. His brother is now in Masterton assisting in making inquiries. WELLINGTON. The largest estates of deceased persons certified for death duty during October, were: —Wellington: Thomas McMenamin £21,749, Jessie Taylor £16.189. Auckland: John Redshaw £6OBB. Canterbury: Meredith Wilson £17.642. Otago: James Frienian £9334. New Plymouth Helen Brobam £28,187. Representatives of tho tobacconists’ trado asked the Minister to introduce legislation to prevent Chinese selling tobacco after tobacconists’ shops had closed. Mr. Millar said it was too- late in the session to get a Shop Hours Bill brought ' down, hut he was prepared to bring down a one-clauso Bill providing that when a requisition from tradesmen, dealing with any class of goods, to close at a certain hour was gazetted, other persons selling the same class of goods would have to close at the same hour.

Tho Secretary for Education, Sir Edward Gibbes, lias issued a circular to public schools cadets corps o-n the subject of target practice and competitions. To earn capitation every cadet must lire tlie course of target practice detailed under the head of “class firing,” and every cadet company must compete for one of the (pjiields and one of the cups mentioned below, unless in each case inability is shown to tho satisfaction of tlio Minister. Four cups, presented by the Colon.;: 1 1 Ammunition Company, aro allotted for the present to' combined education districts, as follows: —One for Auckland and'Hawke’s Bay, one for Taranaki, Wanganui, and Wellington, one for Nelson, Marlborough, Grey, Westland, and North and South Canterbury, and one for Otago and Southland* Tho competition is open to all public school (including district high school) cadets. Tlie competition for the North Island and the South Island challenge shields, presented by the Government, is restricted to public schools other than district high schools, and that for the North Island and South Island challenge shields,* presented by tlie Weekly Press, to district high schools. Tlie competing teams are to consist of ten cadets, all of whom aro to be members of the same company or detachment. _ WELLINGTON, Oct. 51. The Marine Department has ordered a magisterial inquiry, into the loss of the Constance Craig. The inquiry will be held at Gisborne next Saturday. ‘