DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2209, 5 June 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

Press Association. AUCKLAND, Juno 4. At to-night’s mooting of the City Council a proposal was uubmitted lor a loan of 4:100,000, including £40,000 for two new reserves and about £OO.OOO for street improvements • NAPIEIt, June 4. The Government has accepted the Napier Borough Council’s offer to establish a tourist enquiry office hero with an officer of the Council to attend to it free of cost to the Government. WELLINGTON, June 4. • Mr. 11. D. D. McLean, of Maraekakaho, Hastings, lias given the Department of Agriculture the pick of the best Shorthorn heifers on his estate, ten altogether. Delivery has been given to the Secretary for Agriculture, and the stock will be distributed amongst the State farmers. Mr. James Longton, night.watchman of the General Post Office, who fell downstairs last night, died in the hospital this evening. The deceased was aboutjsixty years of age, and had been eight, or nine years employed at the post office. .Ho was well known in bowling circles, being a well-known local skip. NEW PLYMOUTH, June 4. When following the funeral of a neighbor, an old settlor of Okato, named Greenaway, met with a fatal accident. His horse stumbled going down a hill, throwing Greenaway, who was an old man, out of the trap. He sustained a severo fracture of the skull, and died somo hours later.