GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2082, 7 January 1908, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. PALMERSTON, Jan. C. Mr W. Ivirk’s residence was entered by burglars during the holidays and rifled of a large number of valuables. The owner was spending the holidays at the seaside, and the burglary was only discovered on Saturday by a man employed about the I)laC °' BLENHEIM, Jan. 0. . A shock of earthquake was experienced at <5-50 o’clock this evening. Tho direction was north to south. 11 CHItISTCHUItCH, Jan. 6. An inquest was held this afternoon touching the death of rho’m.s Godfrev Bez/iCtt, whose body vas round Mi-TSf r&r-J-'-Kyr Gardner, said that Bezzett vent to New Brighton.oil Tricky Ja»t, and ho had then a gun in He behaved during his stay at New Brighton in an excitable manner, < Se drunk. He informed witness that he was m trouble. at T - •muka, and that lu> was •eeving the colony on Monday. lie 'j h , liar in his manner on Saturday night. |,ut ho was not under tho influence o liquor. He talked a lot. to himself. Ho had proviouslv told witness about a friend who had committed suicide. Tho jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide whilst of unsound ™ i,ld - DITNKI)JX? Jan . 0. At an extraordinary general meeting' of the shareholders oh the Standard Insurance Company to-day tiu following resolution was carried: “That tfio company be rhgistered uiider the Companies Act. UOJ, as a company limited bv shares, and tha Hie Company’s name be changed < the Standard Fire and Maune Kuranco Company of * Lt At an inquest on the body of Donald C. Ogitvy. found < 1( (1 J Glasgow Restaurant on ,^ at r ‘ ‘;' t iii<dit the iurv returned a rtiuicv that death was due to s l‘®° h > { falling out of bed when on a state or intoxication. _