SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 193, 16 August 1910, Page 6

SOUTHERN NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press ; Association.) | - SERIOXJS ACCIDENT. • DUNEDIN, Monday. A young man named Stephen Nolan, employed by Mr. F. Jloynihan, farmer, of Middlemarch, was badly injured today, while ■working a team, of horses in. a drill. When he was in front of the! machine the animals bolted. Tbe drill I ■was pulled over Nolan, and be sustained j a fractured 3knill. The injured man was imcoiisdous at a late hour to-night. • THE GISBOBNE- LOAN. GISBORNE, this-day. The "Herald" has received advice from London, that Mr. Lysnar _ (ilayor of Gis■borne) has finally conckided arrangements through Messrs. Birch, Orisp and Co. for a loan fco the iborough- of Gis'borne of £175,000, four per cent at par. ,';'"• A SUCCISS3?UL YEAR. WANGANUJL this day. ' The Wanganui Meat Freezing Company made a net profit for the year ending 31st July of f15J,721. After replacing-, last year's deficit of £6824, the sum of £5837 remains to be dealt with, and the directors recommend a dividend of 5 per cent, the balance to be carried forward. FOOTBALLERS SUSPENDED. DtTSEIHN, Monday. At a-meeting- , of the Qtago Rugby Football XJnion held to-night, a member of the' Alhambra senior team was disquali- ; fied until the end of the first round of 1911, for indiscriminate kicking' in a match against Xtanedin. on the Ofch hist. A member of the Dunedlii Club was suspended tnrtil the end of 1912 for kicking in the scrum, and punching another. "• ■ WELLINGTON, this-day. Robert Stewart was fonnd guilty of forging a telegram for money, and a •receipt for a moriey-K)rder telegram. He ■was sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour.