YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2082, 7 January 1908, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. NAPIER. Tho Napier Carnival Committee have added to tho otlior attractions of tho carnival musical and elocutionary competitions, open to the whole of New Zealand. AUCKLAND. The Covernmenh steamer liinemou returned last evening iio.n he’- \.'sit. to the Korimmdes, where she landed ft party of scientists from New Zealand, and who are to remain on the island for twelve months. The members of the scientific party were landed. Various depots, which were found intact, were overhauled, and where necessary the contents renewed. There were great quantities of fruit, principally oranges, growing, but in places where it would be almost impossible to ship them No wreckage was seen at any of lands called at. Among tho passengers by oia from Sydney was Mr. 1 .p,Taylor, tho well-known ’ ■ • ~ . ginoer, who has come , . .< n to report on a eomp> •' '■ mage ischeme for the ' : ,'aml and suburbs. Mr • .•oompanietl by his wit fulfilling his engagen . Auckland City Coe noses to visit varies plat. st in New Zealand. Speaking regard to t,ho trend of sanitaiy matters at Home, Mr. Taylor stated that great advances had been made, especially during tho past few years. Continual experiments were being mado that would enable the authorities at Home to overcome their dilhcuities with certainty. (Several very big schemes were at present either in Hand or in contemplation, including one for the complete drainage oi Leeds, at a cost of £L. 150,000. Tho method to bo adopt-. 1 was chemical treatment, followed by bacteria treatment, which was vhe most up-to-date known to science. London was putting in a y foot diameter sewer to bring its system up to tho requirements, and the authorities there were contemplating bacteria treatment; at least, thev were experimenting with it. WAIHI.

John 11. Sainsbury, licensee of the Whangamai Hotel, was lound dead in Ids bedroom. An inquest showed that an overdose of chkirodyno was tho cause of his death, taken as tho result of financial and domestic worries. He was GO years of age. He held a New Zealand war medal. INGLEWOOD.

Tho body of Mrs. C. Sliaw was found drowned in the At aipukuiti River, close to her homestead, yesterday. She left the house while her husband was milking. iShe had been suffering from melancholia since her last confinement, about a month ago. ELTITAM.

Mr. Cf. P. Wake has announced himself as a Government candidate for the Egmont electorate. He stood for I’atea,' in which Egmont was then incorporated, as an. Independent’ at last election. Lt is expected that there will lie a plurality of candidates for the new seat. FEILDING. A man named Robt. Henderson was drowned yesterday while bathing at the mouth of the Rangitikoi River. The body was recovered today. WELLINGTON. Fredk. Rodney, who was employed on the steamer Himitangi, was discovered in a boarding-house early this morning with a severe wound hi his throat and a blood-stained razor in liis hand. It >.-> net considered that the wound will !c fatal. A Taihape man, na.irM Arthur Thomas, employed on a farm at Ohutu, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. During the past fifty years New Zealand has exported 18,218,67 S ounces of gold, valued at £71,528,978. The returns for last year show a decrease of 55,635 ounces, valued at £143,414 as compared with the figures for 1906, the totals for tho two years being:—l9o7, 508,20 S ounces, £2,027,490; 1906, 563,843 ounces, £2,270,094. Last month the export was 45,839 ounces, valued at £lßl,749 as compared with 51,649 ounces, valued at £208,980 in December 1906. NELSON.

High southerly winds, coupled with dry weather, are doing damage to crops and fruit. Rain is wanted. The hop crops are likely to he blighted. At least a hundred acres less are in cultivation. Rush fires have done considerable damage to standing busli at Belgrove and Wakefield. Several shops, including ironmongers, painters, and others, began tho New Year by closing on Saturday afternoon instead of Wednesday. WESTPORT.

Mrs. Alf Smith, drowned in tlio Buller River at Inangahiia Junction on Saturday, was the wife of a well-known cattle-dealer. She was bathing with two younger ladies. She walked out in shallow water, but stepped over a ledge of rock into Bft of water, and was drowned. During last year buildings valued at £20,000 were erected or commenced in tho Borough of Redding. They included a fine two-story budding in brick for tho Bank of IVcw Zealand, and a. two-story building for the Redding Technical School. CHRISTCHURCH.

Another effort is being made to influence public opinion in favor of purchasing tho site of the Bank of New Zealand promises in order to widen tho intersection of tho four streets in flic centre of the city, and a meeting of citizens is called for tonight. Tho ratepayers once already have refused to sanction the purchase, and tho bank lias since considerably raised the price formerly asked for the property. The liolidavsfpassed! without tramway accident, the exception being flic killing of a horse. Fifty-ono births were registered .111 Christchurch in the last two days of 1907, being a record for the office, the average being eight per day. A we 1 eomo cliango in the weather took place yesterday, and slight showers fell, but a heavy soaking is needed' TIMARU. At tlio Magistrate’s Court this morning John William Morris, alias Kid Keddell, was committed for trial for the alleged misappropiation of £6 belonging to bis former employer, the owner of a chaff-cutting plant. Morris was employed in August 1900 as a general band and be collected some accounts on bis employer’s behalf during bis absence. He collected about £3O and then disappeared, boin" arrested in Wellington on Christmas Eve. DUNEDIN. A special meeting of the Woollen Manufacturerers Association will, be held in Christchurch to-morrow night re payment of women and boys under tlu> Factories Act..Last voar the

mill-owners objected to paying hands for a full week whether working or not. Mr. Scott, secretary of the Association, leaves for Christchurch to-morrow.

At a meeting of tho Dunedin Laborers’ Union it was decided to write to alil similiar local bodies as to tho desirability of holding a mouthy conference with a view to increasing the membership of tho various unions and also combining members of the unions more strongly with a view to strongtiling the Political Labor League. The Union Company’s new steamer now building on the Clyde will ho named Makoura, which practically means “all red.’’ The new vessel, which is. intended for the Vancouver trade, will he 450 feet long. Donald C. Ogilvie, aged 55, staying. at the Glasgow restaurant, was accidently suffocated on Saturday night.