DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2261, 5 August 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

[Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 4. Tho exhibition of New Zealand made goods at the Industries 'Exhibition will be opened by the Mayor of Auckland (Mr. A. M. Myers) tomorrow morning. The Exhibition will be held in temporary buildings erected for tho purpose on the site of the new hall land, and promises to bo an unique display. NAPIER, August 4. Squire "Wilson, a well-known hairdresser, of Emerson Street, has been missing since Saturday. He was last seen on the Awatoto Road on that day, having left his home in the morning. ’ , PALMERSTON _ N., August 4. A boy employed in Keeling and Mundy’s printing office met with an extraordinary accident to-day. A ring upon his finger caught one of the hooks attached to .the belting; and lio was drawn up to the ceiling. iHis hand was badly damaged, and on being taken to the hospital one finger had to be amputated. Willis Wilson, from 'Ohakunc, attempted to cut his throat in a .paddock on the Foxton lino to-day. The knife broke before the operation was satisfactorily completed, and Wilson walked into town to a doctor. WELLINGTON, August 4, • The Government has decided to exempt passion fruit and pine apples from the recent regulations regarding tho importation of fruit. . The following is Captain Edwin s weather forecast to 3 p.m. to-morrow : Easterly heavy gale, with heavy rain at all places northward of Napier, Taupo, and Raglan; easterly strong to gale thence southward to Cape Campbell and Hokitika; northerly strong to gale, probably with rain, all other places. The cyclone is continuing on its route to here, and will pass eastward of the North‘Cape. There is also a cyclono to the southwest of Norfolk Island, travelling south-eastward, and a low pressure from the west is approaching the South Cape. It is probable that all these disturbances are decreasing in violence, but the 'one approaching, the North Cape lias the greater intensity. ' . Several well-known northern timber millers interviewed the Prime Minister and the Hon. R. MoNab (Minister of Lands) yesterday, to ask what were the intentions in regard to certain of its forests. They pointed o ut that unless fresh reserves were opened up for milling at an early date, several Auckland mills would have to close clown, one or two bein" a’ready on the point of stopping? They ‘asked if the Government would definitely state its policy in reward to the timber reserves. Ihe Minister promised to secure reports and make an early announcement as to the Government’s policy ill regard to the matter, and in particular those reserves mentioned by the cleputatl<>r' CHRISTCHURCH, August 4 Five dairymen, named John Clark, •James O’Cbnnor, Win. Jas. Stevens, John Kerr, and Junes Maher, were charged before Mr. 11. W. Bishop, S M., todav with selling adulterated milk. Clark, O’Connor, and Stevens were each fined £2 and costs, and Kerr and Maher £lO and costs each. DUNEDIN, August 4. A report reached Laurence to-day to the effect that an elderly man, whose name is unknown, died suddenly at Tuapeka Mouth avhile digging a grave.