DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2234, 4 July 1908, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

[Press Association.] -AUCKLAND, 'July 3. Reference was made at the smoko concert of the Victoria Cruising; Club dust- night t,o the effect that Sir Thos. Lipton, owner of the Shamrock, was expected to visit Auckland shortly. “The farm labor difficulty has led, to a number of . farmers givjng up - -, growing crops in Auckland;” declared Air. G. Massey, president of tho <' Auckland A; and P. Association, at a meeting this afternoon;-adding, “J. f have given up cropping for that reason.” Another rpeaker, Mr. AVesferny, said that up till a year ago lioT had been growing wheat,, but owing h, to the scarcity of farm labor and tlio y outrageous wages demanded at harvest- time lie had given it- up. Others made reference to labor difficulties. AYELLINGTON, July 3. < The following is .Captain Edwin’s weather forecast to. 3 p.m. to-mor-row: Fair weather and. moderate and variable winds generally, but increasing northerly winds and cloudy weather are probable in tho southern and western districts of the South Island. ■ . The City Council’s Gas Committee \ has instructed its consulting engineer^' -J to draw up a. repo i't on tho whole % question of the acquisition of tlio AVellington Gas Company’s property.’ At the .AVellington Poultry Show, F.' L. McGregor, of Fairlie, South Canterbury, secured the -North Island championship for AA'vandotte heu. CHRISTCHURCH, July 3. At a meeting of the Canterbury Industrial Association to-night a ro- " solution was carried strongly protesting against any proposal "to extend tlio harbor works at Lyttelton, the opinion being expressed that such would prejudice the canal scheme. The honorary secretary of tho School Committee’s Association has received a letter from I)r. Mason, Chief Health Officer, acknowledging tlio receipt of a resolution regarding medicinal inspection of school child- , ren passed a t'the conference'of School Committees held recently in Christchurch. Dr. Mason expressed pleasure at the attitude taken up by tho conference with reference to the question, and said lie hoped that before long money would be voted for this department of work. in Chambers this afternoon, application was made for -directions as to the service of a divorce petition, tlio respondent being for many years insane, and at present an inmate of tho Sunnyside Mental- Hospital. The petition was the first presented hero since the coining into forco of tho Divorce Act Amendment, making lunacy a ground for the’dissolution of a marriage. His. Honor directed that the petition should be served oil tho Solicitor-General, also on tlio medical superintendent of the Hospital, to 1 be served by him on the respondent if lie considered it advisable to do so. A special meeting of the Lyttelton Harbor Board Is to lie held on Monday to discuss the harbor extension and canal scheme.

TIA!ABU, July 3. . An inquest on the body of G. Bobertsou; farmer, was bold at Geraldine this afternoon. The evidence showed that the body was found on the Hilton. Road, the horse and trap being some distance away. Tho jury - returned a verdict that tlm cause of death was dislocation of the neck caused by a fall out of the trap. A doctor made a post mortem', anil found a fracture and a dislocation of tlm bones of (lie neck. There was no sign of a ‘fracture of the skull. No one was able to show how t he rug came to lie over tlm body.. The doctor said deceased himself could ))ot,.ip.liavo drawn the rug over, aiid tho Vfr • Coroner remarked that this was one { point not made clear at tho inquest. /lit DUNEDIN, July 3. . Im| Repairs to the finming at tho ,'A Waijwri Falls electro, power station h-. were completed -to-day, and the wer was turned oil at 3 pan. Every- <7. thing is now working ; af isfaetorily. Tho annual meeting fdr the presentation ot degrees and conferring of diplomas for the Otago University district was hold to-day. - The chairman (Professor Shand) dealt with tho mode of conducting examinations by examiners in Britain. He admitted tho inconvenience of the present system, but said that if the examiner , appointed here would, have lo examine their own students " / alongside the others, if he . --E----took questions out of his own course, he would give his own students an unfair advantage. If lie avoided questions from his own- course he would place his own students at a great disadvantage. Owing to examinations beiug c(inducted by outside examiners, de~”et r s secured"■ had a wjdcr rccogn.it-, ban otherwise. ".i 1 ■>