DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2192, 16 May 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 15. A prisoner named Win. Smith, who was being brought in from AVaiotapu convict camp to Mt. Edon gaol by train in charge of Warder Richards this afternoon, jumped off- tho train about two miles from Drury and made good his escape. The train was travelling at a high rate of speed, and the warder did not follow. Smith was. serving a sentence of ten years for burglary and attempting to shoot Constable Coppell. A' strong detachment of polico have left to scour the country for tho escapee. As a natural sequence to the rise in the price of flour, the housewife is to tie called upon to pay an increased price for bread. The committee of the Master Bakers’ Association has decided to recommend to a general meeting of members that the price of bread shall be at once increased to 4d.

The new organ of St. Andrew’s Church was dedicated to-night. It cost £IOOO, to which Air. Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg millionaire, contributed £3OO.

A witness giving evidence at the Arbitration Court to-day in tho hairdressers’ dispute, said that his . tips amounted to from 10s to £1 .per week. “Do you pool the tips?” response. “We each keep our own, asked Mr. Brown. “Oh, no,” was the except at Christmas week, when we put all our tips in a box and split it up between us at tho end of tho week.”

A single man named Frank Carter was accidentally killed in the bush at Puhipuhi (Wliangarei) by a log rolling on him. At a meeting of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society to-night ,it was stated that tlie Council of tho Sociey was about to start a farm for the winor for the rearing of pheasants. It was stated that in view of tho opposition of farmers it was futile for tho Society to attempt to do much in regard to the importation of game. 0 NAPIER, May 15. . At a mooting of the Napier carnival committee to-day, an interim bal-ance-sheet was submitted showing that the receipts of tho carnival amounted to about £2OOO, including about £9OO in guarantees in debentures and donations. Only a small amount is outstanding. The expenditure was about £IOO less than the receipts. It was stated that thero would bo probably a surplus sufficient to enable tho committee to return about 20 per'cent of tlio guarantees to tho guarantors. . , . At a largely attended . patriotic meetings at Hastings to-night, the sum of £llO 8s 9d was collected towards completing tho Roys Hill rifle range. WELLITs t GTON> May 15. A. E. Elliott, the Wellington land agent who recently went bankrupt, crossed over to Australia and lotuilied to New Zealand, surrendering to tho police at "Auckland last Sunday, was brought before tho Magistrate s Court to-day. Six charges of tlioft and fraud involving several hundreds of pounds were preferred against him. To five of these Elliott pleaded guilty, and to one not guilty. He was committed to the Supremo Court for trial in respect of tho last-named chargo, and for sentence oil tlio other charges. DUNEDIN, May 15. At an inquest on tho body of John Alexander McMillan, aged 41, who died suddenly last evening, medical evidenco showed thero woro several flora of blood on tlio brain, and that death was duo to cerebral hemorrhage, a form of apoplexy. A verdict of death from natural causes was letmnecL Jo j m Alexander McMillan, aged about 10 years, died,suddenly last evening: He was with three companions engaged in stocktaking in A. and T. Burt’s premises, and about 6.45 p.m., while tho men were having tea, he rose, walked two steps, and felj backwards. 3Yi on 1G doctor arrived life was extinct. Deceased leaves a wife and family.