TELEGRAMS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 30 April 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

Press Association. \V ELLINGTON yesterday. A diver lias thoroughly examined the bottom of the steamer lnveran, which went ashore in the harbor last week. There is no damage to the plating, and the cost of repairing the propeller will be about £2OO. O A MAR U, yesterday. At the meeting of the Harbor Board this morning it was reported the new wharf was completed and ready for berthing of the largest steamers. MARINE COLLISION INQUIRIES. AUCKLAND, last night. The Minister for Marine has directed the holding of inquiries into the recent collisions in the harbor of the steamers ltotomabnna and Kestrel and of the Kanieri and Dawn. CHRISTCHURCH S.M. COURT. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. At tho Magistrate’s Court to-day a woman named Alary Hyland was fined 20s for practising palmistry. Robert Ferguson was committed for sentence on a charge of uttering a forged school certificate which made it appear that he had passed the 5i standard. The accused had made use of the certificate when applying for a position on the railway. A charge of attempted murder against Hans Wilson was dismissed without prejudice, as he had been committed to tho Siumvsido Mental Hospital. GOODS TRAINS AT NIGHT. AUCKLAND, yesterday. On the subject of the shortage of trucks. Air. Alillar told a deputation that it was impossible to run enough trucks to suit every emergency, but lie thought goods trains might be run at night to relieve any congestion that might arise.

“CHARITABLE” BEQUESTS. WELLINGTON, vesterdav. The appeal in the ease of the Public Trustee v. Commissioner of Stamps was dismissed with costs on the highest scale, as from A distance. This is a case in which a bequest was left for building an Anglican cathedral in Dunedin, on which a tax of £4500 was claimed and appealed against. The Appeal Court said tlm Courts in New Zealand held that the word “charitable” in the Act was hot used in a technical sense. It was employed in English Acts, and did not apply to gifts to religious sects or denominations. The present bequest was not a gift in the popular sense, nor such a gift as is exempted from taxation. It is understood leave will be asked to appeal to the Privy Council.

TRADE UNDER NO-LICENSE. INVERCARGILL. yesterday. _ An examination of the Invercargill Customs figures disclosed the interesting fact that Dm ..duty. paid on liquors of all descriptions/ including locally brewed beer, decreased £2319 in nine months of no-license. Ingeneral goods other than liquors a record yeai was experienced, the amount ‘collected being over £‘oooo in excess of that for the previousyear. AVhile admitting that these facts are favorable to the contention that more merchandise and less liquor has been sold under no-license, the Temperance party do not admit that the figures of duty paid in Invergill are any criterion of the consumption here, as dutv is paid at Invercargill for the whole of Southland, which includes three licensed areas. Awarua. -Wallace, and part of Avakatipu. All the liquor sold by the travellers of two Invercargill wholesale, spirit merchants, wherever consumed, and the beer manufactured at Gore Brewerv, forty miles away, pay duty at Invercargill. . The Temperance 'party contend it is unfair to judge the consumption for tho town from the figures for the whole area. Air. Take, a local no-liconso advocate. considerable misconception exists in northern ton ns iegarding the amount of liquor duty collected in Invercargill during the nine, months preceding No-license and the same period following. He gives figures showing a reduction of £2519 in favor of the prohibition period..

THE LAND BILL. DUNEDIN, yesterday. At a well-attended meeting addressed bv Mr. James Allen. M.H.K... at Miller’s Flat on Friday, the followin'-- / resolution was unanimously approved- -‘That this meeting is hilly convinced that the optional system oi land tenure, embracing the right oi acquiring the freehold, with reason, able restrictions as to area ot lam' purchased from the Grown, is t.hr best and most advantageous lau that can possibly be devised for this to • ony. and that the proposed Land Mof the Government, inasmuch as it destroys the option of occupation with a right to purchase, is advert! to the successful settlement of the CO "nE\V PLYMOUTH, last night. Mr. W. F. Massey addressed a very largo audience at the Theatre Royal, dealing principally with the land question, hut in view of the bye-elec-tion he touched on general politics. A motion was carried in favor of the optional tenure being included in any land bill. OJ’HLM SMOKERS FINED. GAMARU, hist night. Some time ago the police made <1 raid on the houses of several Chinese market gardeners who were suspected of keeping opium, and the cases came before the Stipendiary Magis Irate to-day. Charlie Gou, who pleaded guilty to opium smoking, was fined £lO and costs, there having been a previous conviction. Hop pleaded not guilty to opium smoking and also pleaded not guilty to permitting opium smoking in hithouse. The first charge was dismiss ed, and on the second Hop Lee was fined £5 and costs. Ah Hong pleaded guilty to opium smoking, and was fined £5 and costs. Sing Quong pleaded guilty to a charge of opium smoking, and was fined £o and costs. The same defendant, was then charged with having opium in his possession, to which he pleaded not guilty, an * the charge was withdrawn. Hong (loon, on a charge of having opium in his possession suitable for smoking was fined £3 and costs. Tlio fines and costs totalled £4O 3s. AN INTERESTING PICTURE.” AUCKLAND, last night. The Hon. Geo. Fowl cl s has presented to the Auckland Art Gallery aji oil painting of his father, the late Air-' M- Fowlds, which was limit In the Art Gallery at the late Key Zealand Exhibition. The picture va presents the la ip Mr. Fowhjs ip J*i= hundredth year, engaged In' woavinj blankets, THE TARANAKI SEAT. NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. There arc three candidates now ii the field for the Taranaki bye-elec tion—Messrs. H. Okey (Opposition) E. Dock roll (Government), and A\ G. Malone (Independent Liberal) The campaign oil- Wednesda, and promises to be short and sharp. - .

A RARE DISEASE. AUCKLAND, yesterday. Airs, Alosclcn, residing on Frank lin road, on waking on Sunday morn ing, found her infant boy, 10 weeks old, deaiL He is supposed to have boee accidentally suffocated. At the inquest a verdict of death from heart failure due to lymphatis was returned. Dr. lnglis said such a cause o fdeatli was extremely rare, been accidentally suffocated. MILITARY TEACHING IN SCHOOLS. AUCKLAND, last night. The question of making instruction in mnrkmnnship and military drill compulsory in Universities and public secondary schools and Government assistance towards the establishment of miniature rille ranges throughout the colony was urged on the lion. Geo. Eowlds Alinister for Education, by a deputation from the National Defence League of Now Zealand this afternoon. It was also suggested that the Government should include instruction in rifle shooting as one of the subjects under the Aianual and Technical Education Act. It was pointed out that as ti1e.303 rille was being discarded at Home it would be a good opportunity for'tbe New Zealand Government to purchase say 150.000 of the old issue for use in this colony.

In reply. Air. Fowlds said some of the questions raised did not come within tlie scope of his department, but he would be very pleased to put the matter before the Ministers concerned. He thought it a good thing that- the youth of the colony should be taught to shoot, but be looked askance lit any compulsory proposal, believing better results could be got from a volunteer than from a pressed ■nan. He felt favorably towards placing miniature ranges with- ; n the reach of every hoy. The question of including rifle shooting ns a object under the Aianual and Techni■al Act was one on which he. was not >repared to commit himself at once. \!1 the representations made would )0 carefully considered by Cabinet.

ALLEGED LIBEL. MASTERTON last night. Nurse Hall lias issued writs against the proprietors of the Otago Daily Times and the Taranaki Daily News claiming damages for alleged libel in connection with statements made con. cerning the death of ATiss Victoria Howell. ELECTRIC POWER FOR DUNEDIN.. DUNEDIN, last night. , A party of City Councillors and others went out to AVaipori falls today to inspect the works and to witness the Mayor, Air. Lawrence, turn-

ing on the electric power generated there by hydraulic machinery. The power station was reached and the party spent two hours in going over the works. Air. Goodman explained

the-.machinery. By way of experiment. Air. Goodman turned on the power of ono generator, the circuit being closed at Half-Way Bush, and ran the other generator as a motor Luncheon was served at the men’s barracks and various toasts wore honored. In the afternoon the Alayor (who in the morning had laid a marble slab suitably inscribed to commemorate tlio occasion) turned oil the power. NAVAL COAL DEPOTS. WESTPORT, last night. Vice-Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes made a round of inspection of the Westport harbor works to-day, and in tlie afternoon visited the Westport Stockton Coal Company’s mine and was tlie guest of tho company at dinner. He afterwards inspected the Westport Coal Company’s binns at Oranity and went on to Denniston where he is staying for tho night with the intention of going over the Ironbridge section of mine to-morrow morning. While out viewing the harbor works tlie Admiral was impressed with the possibilities of a large bay on the west of the Boiler ltivcr and 'enquired whether it was not a more practicable harbor than that proposed at Point Elizabeth.

DEATH OF HON. BOLT. ' DUNEDIN, last night. Hon. W. M. Bolt dropped dead today on his way back from Waipori, after tlie ceremony of turning on the electric power for Dunedin City. Air. Bolt’s death occurred about 4.45 p.m., the party being then about three miles from 'the powerhouse at AVaipori. A long hill was encountered soon after the journey was commenced, and Air. Bolt along with others walked up the steep pinches in order to ease the load for tho horses as much as possible. He evidently over-exerted himself, however, as after he had walked about a quarter of a mile he collapsed. On getting into the trap he seemed to revive, but as soon as a start was made he fell back dead. Air. Bolt bad responded to the toast -of “Parliament” at the luncheon earlier in the day, and was then apparently in the best of health and spirits. "Tho deceased gentleman was about 69 years of age.

AIIJNICIPA L IN S u RANGE. INVERCARGILL, last night. The total insurance on municipal properties in Invercargill is £20,193, tlie premiums amounting to £238 per annum. The theatre rate is -50 s per cent.

A FARMING COMPETITION, INVERCARGILL ,last night. Among several novelties to he introduced into the programme of the coining winter show is a competition for farmers’ bo.vs, open without re T striction, for the best collection of dairy, agricultural and pastoral pro-