GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2116, 26 June 1907, Page 1

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. WELLINGTON, Yesterday. James Rawson, who was last week adjudged a. bankrupt on the creditors’ ■petition, lias been arrested in. Sydney on a charge of the Bankruptcy Act. AUCKLAND, Yesterday. The Auckland University Council has agreed to purchase the ' Chbral Hall from the debenture-holdbrs'l-for £4,000, Mr Henry Brett’ having donated £SOOO to briiyi. tho'r'pi-ico yvtthin the amount the University has stipulated, £3500. A winter school for dairymen,.'established in connection with the Auckland Technical College, opened yesterday, and enrolled only six pupils, which is presumably duo to a misunderstanding, the number being limited to 24. News was received by the s.s. Mana-pouri^to-day that H. Kyte, a resident of Nelson, aged 21, who had signed on the steamer’s articles the day oi leaving Suva for Auckland, disapeared the next' morning. It is presumed he was -drowned. A box containing £I.OOO in gold dropped from the Colonial Sugar Company’s steamer in .thirteen fathoms of water in Suva harbor, was recovered by a diver six hours later. Floods in Fiji damaged the banana crop to (some extent, with the result that the Manapoupi’s shipment is smaller than usual. A young man named Robert Gibbs, ,alias Gibbons, apeared at the Police Court to-day, charged with obtaining from Auckland publicans £25 by moans of throe valueless cheques. Gibbr who was a hotelkeeper at Neavesvillo near Thames, was brought back from Honolulu by a detective. He was remanded for eight days on substantial bail.