GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2071, 24 December 1907, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Press Association

INVERCARGILL, Dec. 23, The voting man who left the district while a charge of procuring liquor while prohibited was .pending against him was arrested at Clinton this morning. In the afternoon ho was brought before Mr. McCarthy, S.M., anil fined £5 and costs on the aforesaid charge. Ho was also charged with stealing a luat, the property of a person unknown, from a railway carriage, and remanded. There wore a great number of tour ists to New Zealand by the Marauia, which arrived at Bluff to-day. Manv went North. Among tlio passengers was a German journalist, Herr Gustav Maire, commissioned to lyrito a series of articles on the Dominion for the Frankfurter Zeitung. The Ho.n. R. McNa.b has intimated that he is unable as Intended to bo in Invercargill on New Year’s Day, owing to pressuro of Departmental business.

(Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Dee. 23. During-tlie present year the members of the Arbitration Court in. carrying out their duties have had to travel about 8000 miles. Tho Court has dealt with almost a thousand oases of all kinds. The •weather continues. unpleasantly warm, but there are. signs of rain, which will bo welcome. The city was very full to-day, and tlio book and toy shops are doing a splendid Christmas trade. A great many people will camp out for the holidays, and the seaside suburbs are already full. For some time past dred'gmg operations have been carried on on tho site of the new dock which is to- be (built in Wellington. Since the .reclamation scheme, with a view to establishing industries a.t Evans Bay, in. an arm of the harbor more distant from town has been mooted, tlio suggestion is made that the dock site should be changed to. this locality. The idea, .seems a good one.