GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2079, 3 January 1908, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Pi*ess Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 2. The training ship Amokura is to leave Lyttelton for Wellington tomorrow night. DUNEDIN. Jan. 2. Charles Paterson, a young man, fell off his bicycle at AVailiola on Tuesday while hurrying to catch the train, and sustained concussion, oi the brain. He died tin's morning. Deceased was a clerk in ttic Lands Department. INVERCARGILL, Jan. 2. A fire occurred about 11 o’clock last night in a block of buildings in Dee-street, occupied by Neill (herbalist), Phillips (photographer), and Bacon (umbrella-maker). It started in Phillips’s, and though the tire was quicklv got under the studio was gutted. Phillips’s stock was insured for £250, but lie estimates his loss at £llO above this. Bacon’s stock was damaged by water. Neill escaped almost scatheless. The building wis one of the few wooden ones left in the brick area. The fire was caused by ashos from a fire in Phillips’s living room being blown out of the grate bv a gale, which prevailed while .Phillips was out. The total railway hookings at Invercargill for two (lays from district stations is 7000, considerably less than last year. AVANGANUI, Jan. 2.

011 New Year’s Day three houses, occupied respectively by W- Andrews (Ingestre Street), J. Andrews (Avenue), and Mi's. O'Hara (Wilson Street), were broken into by burglars. Owing to the owners being absent from town the full extent of tho robberies is not known. WELLINGTON, Jan. 2. A shop and dwelling at Roseneath were burned down this morning. There was an insurance of £250 on the contents an tho Alliance office. Tho conference of delegates from New Zealand branches of the Australasian Student Christian . Union concluded at Trentham to-night. A resolution was passed ill favor of annual conferences instead of meeting every two yen's. It was decided to endeavor to get. each of the university college branches to raise £SO annually towards the Union’s general expenses. The number of delegates attending the conference, which has lasted several days, is 59. of whom 36 were ladies.