DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2367, 7 December 1908, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

SOUTH AFRICAN VOLUNTEERS

(Press Association.]

NAPIER, Dec. 6. A meeting of the newly-constituted Hawke’s Bay South African Volunteers’ Association was held in Napier on Saturday night, when rules were adopted and officers elected.

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 5. The annual collections in aid of St, John Ambulance Association was taken up in l the city by lady collectors, who numbered 150. The Hon. G. Fowlds telegraphed to the Association that the Government would subsidise cr/Uectionis pound for pound up to £2OO. The amount collected totalled £2lB, with some smal'l amounts to come. A PRESENTATION. Air. W. Lowrie, retiring director of the Lincoln Agricultural College, will be presented with an illuminated address by tlie Farmers’ Union at a picnic to bo held at tlie Cdflego on Thursday next. IMMIGRANTS PER ARAWA. WELLINGTON, Dec. 6. The Arawa, which arrived this morning, brought 330 passengers, of which 218 were in. the third class. Of these 129 were assisted immigrants, 20 being farmers, and six farm laborers. There were also 13 domestic servants. Thirty-five of the assisteds were children under 12. The combined capital possessed by the assisted immigrants is £1769. FIRES AT WELLINGTON. x Two seven-roomed houses in College Street were destroyed by fire on Saturday night. Both were owned 1 by Air. John. Scanned,, of Wanganui. One was occupied by Airs. Garbatt and the other by Charles Perrin. Both buildings _ were insured in the Commerical Union, one for £2OO and tlie other for £3OO. The ‘insurance on the contents was iunascertainabJe. At 10.15" p.m. a fire broke out in a seven-roomed house at Kelbunie, occupied by Albert Byrne, 'and owned bv Thomas Lyons. No water was available, and everything was completely destroyed. 1 The'furniture and effects were insured in the Manchester office for £2OO, -and the .building wag uninsured.