SATURDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2052, 2 December 1907, Page 1

SATURDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. AUCKLAND. There m iis a very large attendance at the Auckland Show to-day. E. 1). iMoLennan’s Buttercup was awarded the chamuionsliip of dairy coirs. . - BLENHEIM. A prisoner named Archibald Campbell McKenna, undergoing four years for rape, escaped trom Hauluor last evening. The Industrial Arbitration Court sat at Blenheim this morning to bear an application by th 6 Earm Laborers’ Lnion for an award fixing the hours, wages, and conditions of casual farm labor, particularly harvesting. Everything was agreed to except preference. The Court is now considering that question. CHRISTCHURCH.

The folloM-ing awards liavo been mad 0 by the Royal Humane Society: —Rangi Norman, a schoolboy, ,13 years of age, and E'riti Pahuita, a .Maori, for attempting rescue of a Maori girl from drowning at Papa-u-ai, Greytown, in April, bronze medal ; Maria Tame Macfarlane, for rescuing a man named Charles Frighley from drowning a,t Kiwita'lii, in •January last, silver medal; Edward Haughey, aged 16, for rescuing a girl named Lilian Jane Fisher from drowning near the Barbadoes-street bridge, Christchurch, on December 10, 1906, a letter of commendation; George Edgar, dairyman, of Lyttelton, for rescuing a schoolboy named John Fitzsimmons from drou-ning in Lyttelton harbor on December 10, 1906, a letter' of commendation; Setwyn TTios. Ellingham, 15 years of age, for rescuing two boys named R. J. Dowsing and C. H. Dousing from drowning ait Auckland on March 22nd, bronze medal; Clarence Sheridan, lo years of age, of Blenheim, for rescuing a lad named William ITall from drou-ning on October 2, 1907, bronze medal; Henry William' Sclnvass, a railway servant, for rescuing a girl named Selina j. Bishop from drowning at Nelson on January 16, 1907, a. certificate; John Alex. Corrie, for rescuing 'a boy named James Sullivan from drowning at Lyttelton on September 17, 1907, a commendation; 4 Miss Jean Donaldson, matron of the Walthaan Orphanage, Christchurch, for rescuing a number of children from fire on October 6, 1906, gold medal. DUNEDIN. A ballot at Dunedin Central for the election of members of the New Zealand Bowling Association Council resulted:—President, Mr. Allnutit, Dunedin; vice-president, Mr. •J. Broun, Canterbury; treasurer, Mr. F. R. Smith. Six members to form a committee were selected; but it M as decided not to disclose tlio result of tho ballot until other centres had voted.

A lire at Xaitangata destroyed a four-roomed house valued at £175, belonging to Mr. Hitehon. The building was uninsured. The furniture was insured by Slieelian, the occupier, for £l5O in the United. No bookmakers have applied to bo licensed for tho Tahuna Park trots, the fee of £2O a day being consider•ed unreasonable. OAMARU. Prize giving'!!t a large and enthusiastic demonstration was held last evening under the auspices of the Oa'inaru Ministers’ Association : .n connection with the Scripture classes conducted in various schools during school hours. Mr. T. Mackenzie, M.P., chairman of the Otago Education Board, presided, and spoke of .the importance of instilling into school children a knowledge of Bible truths. WANGANUI. Thomas Mitchell, at on*, time proprietor of the Aramolio {Meat Freezing works, and who for several years was engaged unsuccessfully in lawsuits, Including a Privy Conned appeal caso against tho New Zcaja Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. has been adjudged bankrupt. This is the first bankruptcy here since July.