SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 177, 26 July 1907, Page 5

SOUTHERN NEWS.

JBy Telegraph.—Press Association.)

HIS FELLOW LODGER.

CHMSTCHURCH, this day.

In the Magistrate's Court to-day, John Goram was committed for trial on a charge of having stolen £17 8s 6d from a fellow lodger in a boarding house. Tha alleged victim was a man named Drake, who went to bed on Wednesday night leaving the money in a pocket-book. The money was gone in the morning, besides a gold scarf pin from his tie. According to the evidence the pin was found in Goram's possession, as well as the notes, which, it was argued, he was not likely to haVe earned, he having quite recently finished a sentence of five months' imprisonment.

3__AOI_I__ND COMPANY'S NEW ' VESSEL.

WELLINGTON, this day.

The steamer Ennerdale, purchased in England for the Maoriland Steamship Company, has arrived under Captain Holm. Some heavy weather was encountered, but only minot damage waa done..

SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL.

NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday.

The amount subscribed to date for tha memorial on Marsland Hill to the soldiers who fell in the Taranaki Maori war has reached £250. _

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

GISBORNE, this day.

The waterside workers are forwarding a subscription to relieve the distress caused by the Sydney coal lumpers' trouble.

The poll to constitute Gisborne a fires district was carried by 49 to 7.

Sydney F. Burdett, of Waipiro, was successful in the ballot for the Te Matai section to-day. Two applications wera received by the attorney from per* sons in Johannesburg, but the land officer rliled he had no power to jeceive applications by attorney.