TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1972, 7 January 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

TRAGIC FATALITY. FARMER GORED TO DEATH A BULL. Press Association. INVERCARGILL, last night. A tragic death occurred at Tisbury on Saturday, James Wright, farmer, being gored to death by a bull, one horn having been driven through the body, the horn entering at the back, and coming out at the chest. > _ SHOCKING OUTRAGE. “HUMAN TIGERS.”

INVERCARGILL, last night. An outrage of a most diabolical and brutal nature was attempted by two men, “human tigers rather, on a married woman on New year s eve in an av.enue, almost within cooee of Invercargill town clock. the woman was going home after seeing friends off by the late train when a man at a fence gave a long whistle, an answering whistle coming from the front. The woman was ~ frightened by the continued whistling, and soon observed that the man who first whistled was keeping pace on the opposite footpath, otill sue thought no harm could come to hei. She was on the main road, but as soon as she turned into a side street a man rushed out, and caught hold or her. She screamed, but was silenced with a blow on the mouth, and felled •to the ground, further outcry was gagged by the villain’s hand, but the desperate struggles of the woman successfully prevented the man Horn accomplishing his purpose. His next move was to endeavor to strangle her. In the meantime the accomplice was stationed at the corner, and the pair spoke to each other at intervals. One of their proposals was that the almost exhausted woman should be beaten into insensibility, and conveyed to a neighboring plantation. Providentially, a late car just then Stopped at the corner. Several passengers alighted, and the ruffians had to llv. The woman, half dead and speechless, staggered to a neighbor s house, where friends attended to her. An examination of the spot shows that a desperate struggle must have taken place.

RAILWAY FATALITY. | NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. The young man, Wilson, injured at , the railway deviation works on Saturday, died".at the hospital tonight. His parents reside in Cliristplilirch. ~ ATHLETICS. CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIPS. CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. The championship meeting, pro- ; moted by the League of New' 'Zen- 1 land Wheelmen, drew a fairly largo attendance of the public to Lancaster Park til is afternoon, when several championships of New Zealand came up foh decision. The entries were good, and some interesting contests were provided, although the strong custody wind was anything but favorable for cycling. The following are the principal results;

Grand Exhibition .Bracelet Handicap. Half a mite, one mile, and one mile and a half $ aggregate points to count. First prize, tropliv (£25); second, £5; third, £3 3s; fourth, £1 LOs.—J. Chalmers (10 points) 1, J. J. Connell (8 points) 2,1). J. Bvrno (7 points) 3, H. E. Mehrtens (4 points)

One mile championship of New Zealand.—G. Sutherland 1, J. Arnst 2, 15. Campion 3. Timo 2inin. 19sec. Half-mile Championship of New Zealand.—G. Sutherland 1, J. Chalmers 2, D. Wyatt 3. Time lmi'n. 2secs.

Three Mile Championship of No\ Zealand.—G. Sutherland I, C. E Burton J. Arnst 3. Timo, Gmin 3(>seos.

Five Mile Championship of New Zealand.—G. Sutherland 1, J. Arnst 2, D. J. Blanket 3. Time, lOmin. 30 secs.

THE EXHIBITION. lull. DONNIE’S OPINIONS. Special to Times. CHRISTCHURCH, last night, The attendance at the Exhibition on Saturday was 12,293, making the total for the week 193,531, which well exceeds last week’s aggregate of 90,981, and represents tile highest week’s total since the opening week. A large number of visitors, especially from Dunedin and Wellington, have bought season tickets during the last few days. The chamber music concert by tho orchestra on Saturday afternoon was well attended, and it is agreed that the orchestra has improved twenty per cent .as much since its members lave been playing together. In the evening a popular concert vas very successfully given by tlic ireliestra, -•* iss Phoebe Parsons and >V. H. Montgomery. Mr. Massey, organist of Bathurst | latliedral, who gives his first recital I n Monday evening, expresses a very | igh opinion of the Exhibition oran, and says that New Zealand is I ortunate to possess two such instru- f ients as those in Wellington Town I [all and the Exhibition. He has not I sen much accustomed to electrical I I nipment, but considers it an ex- J Tlent feature. I After hearing the orchestra iur. | assey says that it is a remarkabl’ le one, and we are very fortunate i having it here. :

I c, I >eo Pl e s Clay at the dog show on ■ Saturday was very well attended. 'I Pain’s London fireworks can be I seen on Monday night, when' an I elaborate display will be given. ProI grammes for these displays will be varied on each occasion, and a num- | ber of attractive novelties will be I shown each time. The Besses of the Barn Band give their first performance on Thursday I night, when the following programme will be rendered:—March, “Zealandia,” specially composed for the band’s New Zealand visit by its conductor, Mr. Owen; overture, “Potts and Peasant”; Von Tuppe Comet; polka, “Demare”; grand selection, Rossini’s works: waltz Jeunessc Doric” (Wandteufel): trombone solo, “Death of Nelson” (Braham): operatic selection from I “The Geisha” .(Henry Jones); Na-I tional fantasia, “Reminiscences of England,” and “God Save the King.” Next Thursday it is proposed to make a bandsmen’s day at the Exhibition. Six local bands will take part in the reception to- the Besses of the Barn Band, and the Exhibition authorities will give every facility to make the function as effective and popular as possible. Later on the general manager proposes to organise similar days and nights in connection with fire brigade, volunteers, friendly societies, and, if possible, to arrange for an old colonists’ day. It has now been decided that a 1 limited number of matinee perform- 1 ances shall be given by the Besses of I the Barn Band' in the concert hall. 1 The first of these will take place on ■ Friday night. i Wonderland is organising another s of its exciting series of toboggan 1 races for next Wednesday night. « This time ladies doubles will be the 1 form taken by the contests, and valu- ‘ able prizes will be given. t Mr. Donne, superintendent of the * Tourist Department, in expressing in 1 m interview his disappointment that 1 Yew Zealanders, and especally school i children, have not made better use 1 if the Exhibition, says: “That as an i iducational institution the value of J die Exhibition is simply incalculable, md I sincerely hope that this will be ■ealjsed by every school committee in «■ -he colony before it is too late.” I Referring to t]je love of knowledge I ilid mental alertness, which are the 1 diaracteristic of the American na- ® don, and which might be the mind I >f the young New Zealanders, Mr. J Donne says: “For this purpose I I mow of no better training-ground I dian the New Zealand International 1 Exhibition. It is to be regretted, of I jourse, that all countries are not so Fully represented as New South VVajes and Canada, but still enough is shown to be of great value in .roadening the mind and developing t the intelligence, and so far as New ] Zealand herself is concerned, the dis- j plays made by many of the Govern- j me.nt departments are wonderfully , complete and informative, even to r make no mention of private exliibi- £ tors. If so great an opportunity js missed by school children from end to end of the colony, it will be a , matter of lasting jjfgreb.