YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2141, 17 March 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Just as tho steamer Den of Rutliven was leaving Suva if was reported that a sugar planter hail been niunlered by a eool.is with a knife. 'l'lie name ot the murdered man cannot be definitely ascertained. If is said to resemble .1 tow ley. Walter Joseph Dufaur died suddenly, aged 57 years. A young man named David Ernest Forest, aged 19 veurs, committed suicide at Mayfield in a very determined manner. Forest, who was a carpenter employed at the Chelsea sugar works, left home, saying ho was goin"' to shoot a mbit. Later, lus brother found a letter from David, stating that he was going dotty and intended putting an end to himself. Ho proceeded with his mother to tho spot- indicated in the letter, and lon nil the bodv with the gun beside it. Deceased had apparently placed the muzzle of the gun in lus mouth, and pulled the trigger. His head was utterly shattered. He had spent many sleepless nights. The fear of an operation proved on his mind. A seven-roomed house m Amoy road, Reinucra, owned by Malcolm Fleming, was totally destroyed by lire on Saturday . It was insured lo L'JOO in the Sun office. The lurmfure was insured. A lire oecured early on Sunday morning at the residence of Leo Myers, occupied by J. Mills, Collector of Customs. The brigade confined the fire to tho front portion of the house, in which was stored a quantity oi goods belonging to and Mrs Myers, stored prior to their departure for England. The damage is estimated at £2OOO. The house was insured for £2OOO, and tho furniture in tho Alliance, HASTINGS.

Tho lions. Carroll and Millar wero present at the funeral of Pone to Ua at Waipatu pah yesterday. Fully 1000 Europeans and 750 natives from all parts of Maorilaml attended, there were impressive obsequies, pakcha and native mingling together eulogising deceased. , . The visiting Maoris were camped in a marao, over which Jloated, haltmast, a tattered red ensign, bearing tho inscription “To Tiriti o Muitangi” (the treaty of Waitangi), presented to the natives in 1840 by Governor Hobson. Among the chiefs present was a son of To Hen Hen, that fine barbarian, the last oi all the old heathen warriors, who could neither be coerced nor persuaded to sign ti,o treaty. The Hon. J. Carroll leib bv special train, and joins the Premier "at Palmerston, eu route lor the Waikato. NAPIER.

An interesting ceremony took plrce at the Cathedral yesterday, when the old battalion colors were given into the sacred keeping of the Church. There was a monster turn-out or volunteers and the public, and tho ccrernoiiv was most impressive. PALMERSTON NOEIIT, Tho criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened here to-dav before Air. Justice Cooper, liis Honor, in addressing the Grand Jury, congratulated them oil the comparative absence of crime in the district. There were 13 charges against 1persons, three of which were tor assault either with intent or having caused bodily 1 m^ V g LLI QTON.

Cabinet lias decided to establish a number of scholarships for tho encouragement of research m tion with the staple industries ot the Dominion, such as sawnnllnig, flaxpreparing, meat for freezing, etc. As a result of the recent conference of tho managing director of the Union Company, Sir Jas. Mills, and the delefates of' the Institute of Marine Engineers. several important proposals wore discussed, and eventually an agreement drawn up, to bo submitted to the Institute for.ratification, ibis was duly accomplished. The principal features of the concession are that in future the chief engineers ot tho company's fleet receive £2l to £3l per month, according to the of vessel and trade; second engineers £l6 to £2O, third engineers £l4 to £l6, fourth engineers £l2 to £l3. Victualling allowances when engineers are awaiting orders ashore have been granted, and the removal of the family’s effects of engineers who are desirous of moving then homes when transferred from one trade to another. A schedule has been arranged for relieving chief engineers from turning out at all stoppi„v places in the Wellington, PictonTand Nelson service, which involved exceedingly unsettled hours of rest for tho chief. Engineers have been placed on a more liberal scale of sick pav, ancl it has been agreed to pay all" engineers incapacitated by illness. Tho chief and second engineers of vessels engaged ill specially strenuous trades have been promised double the present holidays. A very satisfactory" schedule of pay has been arranged for all engineers working ashore for tho company when ships are laid up and freo transit. r llio promotion of juniors has been placed upon a systematic basis. The engineers have obtained concessions the aggregate oi which is estimated at about £oOUO a of the Man aw at u Railway Company arc to be admitted to the superannuation fund on tho conditions laid down in the Act. The company has agreed to contribute the sum which was necessary to compound for back contributions to the fund. Gilbert Anderson, formerly mana<r<;r of the Christchurch Meat Co., now in London, has been appointed to represent Now Zealand at the freezing congress in Paris. At a sitting of the Arbitration Court to-day tho Levin Meat Co. for a breach of the preference clause of an award was fined £5. G. Itowell, for paying less than the rates stipulated in the drivers’ award was fined £5, and Tooliey, the man employed, 10s. H. Fielder and Co. were- fined £2 for employing a man at less than the minimum wage, and a similar fine was imposed on the Wellington A\ oodware G ; o. for employing an unindentured lad. W. Day and C. J. Johnstone were, each fined £2 for employing 111011-unionists. Frederick ’Tucker, a young mail, who attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the harbor, was charged in Court to-day. He said he had boon in trouble for IS months, and had been driven to despair by a new disappointment. He was convicted and discharged, and ordered to pay costs. ASHBURTON.

At an inquest liclil on Sunday touching the demise of Denise Coakley. who was found dead at his home at Asliliuvton Forks on Saturday, the jury returned a verdict -that death was caused by heart failure. 'David Lusk, well known in the district as clerk of works for many important public buildings here, died suddenly on S iturday night, as the result of breaking a blood vessel. Deceased was married on Wednesday last.