TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7842, 20 May 1904, Page 7

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Association)

GISBORNE,

May 10

Private advices received in G inborne state that Mr Bellerby, who is missing in Victoria, suffered a sun--1 stroke some time ago. His brother and another well-known station-hold-er have left Gisborne for Melbourne in the hope of being able to find the missing man. Hon. J. Carroll to-day turned; the first sod in the foundation of the Hawa bridge, Tolaga Bay. In the course of a speech he referred to the fertility of the district, and said it woiild be capable of carrying a large population. DUNEDIN, May 19. At the Police Court to-day Donald McLean pleaded guilty to making a false declaration under the Land Act in. connection with a ballot for a small grazing run, and was com-, mitted to the Supreme Court for sentence. The i Land Board has already forfeited his deposit. The Ladysmith Sluicing Company washed up 12Goz for two and a-half weeks. INVERCARGILL, May 19. At a meeting held to deal with the disposal of the balance of the local patriotic fund, some £265, applications were received fron^ the Pipe Band for a poi'tion to aid the uniform fund, from the Cadets for the same purpose, from the Bluff and Wyndham Bands, from the' Sixth contingenters for a contribution of £30 to wipe oft deficits of the sports and entertainment, and from returned troopers and relatives of deceased troopers. A committee was set up to deal with the applications. .