DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2253, 27 July 1908, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

[Phess Association.]

NAPIER, Julv 26. At the annual dinner of the employees of Alessrs Jas. J. Niven and Co., engineers, on Saturday night it was announced that tho firm wouk. shortly be formed into a. limited liabiliy company. ' „ The committee of the .Hawke’s Bay Employers’ Association has reported that the Shearers’ Accommodation Bill appears to have been compiled for the benefit entirely of the white shearer in the Targe districts, more especially, in the South Island, where tho conditions are not in any way similar to those in the North. It is considered that tlie. /Bill would put small settlers to considerable unnecessary expense, and that the customs and inclinations of Alaori shearers have been overlooked or ignored. ■Nelson Bros., Ltd., intimate that owing to uncertainty of coal supplies their Tomoana works will bo closed for stock deliveries after Thursday, 30th inst., until further notice. CHRIiSTCHURCH, July 26. A Compensation Court will sit in this city on August 3rd for tho purpose of fixing tlie value of tho improvements made by two lessees of township sections at Culverden. The Lands Department and the lessors have failed to come to an agreement in the matter.

At tho Alagistrate’s Court yesterday the Timaru Brewery Company was charged with failing to .supply sufficient particulars in "regard to a consignment of liquor to the -Clerk of the Court at Ashburton, a no-license district. It was explained that it was a pure error, but the Alagistrato (Air. ‘V. G. Day) imposed a fine, of 20s and costs. Vincent and Co. were similarly charged, and a similar fine inflicted. In the case of the Crown Brewery Company, Air. Louisson pointed out that owing to a clerical error, the return, had been made out as eight dozen (half-and-half. Anyone knew that that, meant half stout and half ale, and therefore the breach was. only trivial. Tlie Alagistrate said that tliero was no such term recognised by the Act, but it was a technical breach, in fact, tho most technical breacli that had come before him, and ho thought he was' justified in dismissing the information. ' - '

The Little River police report that a man named James Craw had been drowned in the Kaituna River the previous evening. Craw and his son, aged sixteen, had been out shooting ducks on the lake and in tlie evening Craw waded out on the Jake-Mono to do some more shooting, and getting to the river bed was drowned. Two constables wore sent from Christchurch this Inorniug to search lor the body, which was recovered shortly after their arrival. OAMAIUJ, July 26. A four-roomed cottage, owned by A. AlcDonald, and -occupied by four bachelors, was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday niglit. A raid was made on a boardinghouse on Saturday by the police, and a. quantity of liquor seized. A prosecution will follow. There was a previous conviction. „ , DUNEDIN, July 26. An okl age pensioner named Alary Aim Hollis, 73 years of age, was found dead yesterday. Deceased .lived by herself, anil owing to the fact that sho had not been seen for a day or two, the police forced an entrance, with the above result.