YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2232, 8 November 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

l’ress Association. AUCKLAND. A young man named It. .Mooney, a passenger from Napier by the s.s. Talune, died just before arrival of the steamer at Auckland. Ho was in an advanced state of consumption. HASTINGS. A ballot was taken this morning for seven sections in Te Mata sot.ttlcmont, the areas of which rongo from five to seven acres. The land is specially adapted for fruit-growing. Tho tenure is l.i.p. The ballot resulted ns follows: Section 2, rent £6 the halfyear, J. Iligloy, AYoodvillo; section 3, rent £5, C. Masters, ITlastings; section 4, rent £5, A. H. Johnston, Hastings; section 5, rent £B, Airs. K J. Gleeson, Knrori: section 6, rent £9, Sarah Johnston, Hastings; section 7, rent. £,, I''■ Moore, Hnstings; section S, rent £7, At. Cassidy, Hastings. WRT .LINGTOX. A married man named AVilliam Aire, a wharf laborer, was knocked off his bicycle and kicked by a horse lust evening. He is in the hospital suffering from concussion of the brain. , , , , . The Peiono Navals concluded their annual big gnu shooting from Fort Kplburno this morning, and for the third day in sticcesion secured twelve hits with twelve shots. Decimal seven is the standard for first-class shooting, and this company’s standard of merit Oil three days lias been 1.12, 1.34, anil 1.35. . 'l'lie proposal to entertain Sir James Mills, general manager of the Union Company «t a luncheon in AVolhngton lias been enthusiastically taken up Seveilal of the. leading citizens of Wellington, and other parts of the Dominion are on the committee. - A mooting of tho executive coninntteo was hold yesterday, in the rooms of tho Alarm© Engineers. Hie Hon. C. AI. Luke, AI. li. C.. was m the ohiair Tho dato of the .luncheon was fixed for Thursday, the 28tl, inst,., at 1 p.m., in tlio Town Hall. flic Premier is'expected t o preside. To-day the Arbitration Court_ awarded Antonio Frankenlierg £250 as compensation for injuries received while working as a stevedore in discharging cargo on the ITuddai 1 arbor Co.’s steamer Zealandia last May. David Henry Tobin claimed £309 from tho New Zealand Shipping Companv for injuries received in INlarcn hr flailing into the hold of the luraldna. Tho Court awarded £220.

“Rebuilding at San Francisco continues on a Titanic scale (says tlio Auckland Star correspondent),and the citv has felt fiuiancial depression less than some otherwise more favored regions. Still, tho rioting and the destruction attendant upon tlio recent striko of street-car men has boon sorely felt, causing distrust on the part of capitalists, and? making tho city an unpleasant abiding place in many respects. The police force was proved to be totally 11 liable tx3 keep order; hut this is being remedied, as Alayor Taylor has appointed now police comnimissioners, who have, in turn, given tlie city a new and efficient chief of police. Alean-t-ime the city continues to bo exploited in the eastern magazines aim elsewhere, as a model of everything a city should not be, and as a den of iniquity almost past belief. As a matter of fiict, Sail Francisco’s officials have committed, the sin of being found out, and its citizens a'O less satisfied with corruption in the part of public servants than tome ■more smug municipalities. B”t it must be admitted that the effort of Labor to rule or ruin here is alarming.” ' • v