YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2195, 26 September 1907, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. AUCKLAND, yesterday. Inquiry made here with reference to a report from Christchurch that the Defence authorities are compiling a militia list in view of calling out the first line f men between 18 mid 25 years for training, that no shell list is being compiled in Auckland, but at the direction of tho Council of Defence a return is being compiled Yvl i UAU_jiJ>AL.clav.riul —ill—tl\a—Gaii.+lv- A-£— ric-an corps or who have other foreign service and are now serving in Itlie New, Zealand forces.

No less than £126,031 has been allotted for the election of business premises in Auckland since the beginning of tho year. During the same period 525 dwellings, aggregating £250,000, were erected o-r started in the city and suburbs. Public buildings in course of erection or authorised represent a further expenditure of £276,049. Careful calculation shows that if, assuming this state of things continues for tho noxt twolve months, between two and a half and three million pounds sterling will- be spent in Auckland by the end of 1910. NAPIER, yesterday. Dominion Day will bo well observed -here.-The general holiday will open with'a 'volunteer parade, followed by the reading of the declaration by the Mayor, after which tho school children and oi'dot corps will pa.rale and salute the flag. For the afternoon amusement will be provided in a football tournament. At night a portion of tlio town will be illuminated by a brilliant electric light display by the Napier Gas Company, who recently installed a very oomjdete and powerful plant for supplying electric light and power to blocks of buildings adjacent to their town- office. Comprehensive arrangements have been made for illumination by the company !at their own cost. It is intended the Masonic, Criterion, and Caledonian hotels shall have the electric li£ht installed by tho company. At the Supreme Court Lee Fun was sentenced to six months for jierjuyy. Arthur Graham Owen was sentenced to three months for making a false declaration to tlie Registrar of Marriages, and William Smith to twelve months for false pretences. Albert Anderson was found guilty of common assault on a girl six years of age, and was remanded for sentence. In the Supreme Court Andrew Anderson, on a charge of assaulting a little girl, was found guilty on one count. He was admitted to six months’ probation and ordered to pay 8 guineas cosits. A lad of 14, Silas Tassell, who pleaded guilty to breaking and entering, was remanded for sentence.

.MASTER-TON, yesterday. At a meeting of the Borough Council, Mr. W. T. Mansfield was appointed Town Clerk and Borough Engineer. PALMERSTON,yesterday. At a meeting of the Borough Council, tlie motion of the Mayor requesting the engineer to resign liis position found no seconder. A further motion to refer the matter to the Staff Committeo for consideration was lost.

THAMES, yesterday. Throo sW-.s of earthquake at 4.20 this morning were felt all over tho district, tho second being ruther severe, making bouses rock and causing somo alarm. WELLINGTON, yesterday. Lockwood Giwynn Potts, a lad of 13, son of Geoffrey Potts, of Koputarua, near Levin, accidentally shot himself with a Winchester rifle on Saturday. He went to his mother’s room in the morning, and while trying tho door she hoard an explosion, and was horrified to find the boy lying on -the lloor. The top of his skull was blown away. Tho lad was home for his holidays from Wanganui College. Mr. Potts is a woll-known settlor, formerly of South Canterbury l ? When his Excellency the Governor

reads the proclamation at Parliament Buildings at 11 a.m. on Thursday about fifty officers and men from H.M.S. Challenger will be present and form part of the guard of honor. During the afternoon 900 men from tlie warship will be present at the review at Newtown Park. On the platform at tho Town Hall in the evening will be his Excellency tho Governor and Lady Plunket, tho Prime Minister and Lady Ward, members of the Government, members of the Council of Defcnco, navnl officers, Judges of tho Supreme Court, and foreign Consuls, and in front will be seats for members of Parliament and their wives, members of tlie City Council and Harbor Board, and representatives of tlio clergy and officers of the battalion. An interesting application for writ of habeas corpus is being made in the Supreme Court on behalf of Miss Agnes Jensen Williamson, of lteefton. The application calls upon the gaoler at Wellington to show cause why she should not ho discharged from custody on. the grounds that the warrant for her arrest was irregular in several particulars. It appears that applicant was arrested a-t" ’Wellington yesterday on a telegraphic warrant from Reefton on a -charge of being about to depart 'from' the colony wit-li intent to

defraud her creditors.' Miss Williamson in. papers presented to Court alleged that sho was not a bankrupt and had never been served with any bankruptcy proceedings. She hul been a resident of Wellington since September 21st-, 1907, and had no intention of quitting her place of residence. Mr. Justice Cooper will decide the matter this afternoon. The price of flour has been increSsed another 10s per toil. DUNEDIN, yesterday. The Arbitration Court to-day heard the hairdressers’ and carpenters’ dis-

putes. During the latter a witness for tho Union said there were 700 carpenters in Dunedin and suburbs in the trade, of whom 400 were incompetent men, yet the witness stated that only 110 of these had permits—--300 were working for less wages without permits. There were' also an unlimited number of unindentured lads, of whom cheap contractors in tho suburbs wore -mill.--*>l<T nm— nnli7-9.fi. joLTuds' wero- apprenticed altogether. Incompetent men were working for from 5s to 8s per day. They wtro members of the trade section- of the Union. Mr. Scott (employers’ representative): What is your Union doing to allow this ?—Witness : We are |al-in-ost helpless' in the matter. Wo would need to have two or three men on tlio road looking after them. —Mr. Brown: Tho inspectors should do that. —Later the socrotary of the Union gave somewhat similar evidence. —Mr. Scott: I feel t-hnt a very grave slander has been cast on tho Labor Department and the employers of Dunedin by this evidence. ' Have you ever reported this condition of affairs to the Department ?—Witness: Yes; we have done so lately.—Mr. Scott: When? —Witness: During tho last twelve months. —Mr. Scott: Have you reported about these incompetent men and unlimited unindentured hoys?—Witness : Yes.—Mr. Scott: What was the result? —Witness: Tho inspector, informed me that he was busy, and that after this sitting of the Court he would make a systematic search among all the builders.—Mr. Scott: It is tho most astonishing statement I have heard in the Arbitration Court since I have beeii connected with it.

An inquest on the body of William James Feasey, who died on Saturday night from injuries sustained as the result of a fall from a bicycle, was held yesterday. The medical evidence indiovted that death was caused by a fractured skull, and that the case was hopeless from the first. The jury returned a verdict that death was due to fracture of the base of tlio skull, caused by an accidental lull from a bicycle. At Eawrenco Police Count three men, James Nicholson, George Wilson, and Albert Churnside, were charged by tho police with injuring the dwelling of John Munro at Evans’ Flat, and also with intimidating him. Accused were committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court at Dunedin.