GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2134, 17 July 1907, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND, yesterday. A heavy westerly gale with Btrong rain squalls prevailed yesterday. Several sailing vessels dragged their anchors, but brought up without danl heavy gale is raging on the West Coast. The Taltapuna and Cormna are weather-bound at Manukau Heads. The departure of tbo Ngapuhi for Now Plymouth has been postponed until Thursday. WELLINGTON, last' night.

Jaketh Eddy Wearne, a mine manauer, residing at 2 Colombo-streot, •south Wellington, died to-day under circumstances which indicate suicide. Deceased drank some hydrochloric acid, which had been used for testing "mineral specimens. During tho year ending June oOfcn tl,?re were 456,680 bales of wool exported from N.Z..against bales in the preceding vear. There lias been an increase in shipments from all ports except Uunedm, where there was a decrease of M2 bales and Napier, which shows a falling-pff of 2740 bales. Gisborne shows an increase of 4969 bales. The follow mg figures show the number of bales shipped from the various ports. Wellington 119,805, LytteltonM>,796, Napier 56,045, Gisborne 36,491, Timaru 35,376, Dunedin §4,647, Bluff 25,302, Auckland l/,4i5, 13 317, Picton 11,166, angarl } l i* 9.518 Waitara and New Plymouth 1742; total, 456,680. NELSON, yesterday. A Chinaman named Sow Ting, found by the police in possession of a quantity of opium suitable for smoking was fiiied £2O or six months imprisonment. Having no money he

went to gaol. REEFTON, yesterday. A public meeting resolved to protest against the locking up of money in the Otira tunnel, thus perhaps blocking further construction of the West Coast lines. CHRISTCHURCH, yesterday.

Seven head of cattle were condemned during June at the Christchurch abattoirs, out of 1000 killed; 15 sheep out of 7790, and two pigs out of too .tilled. There were 443 lambs and 299 calves killed, all of which passed for consumption. During June the City Council granted 61 building permits, representing a value of £35,296, returning fees of £Bl ss. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. Mr. H. Quuine, chairman of the Midland Railway Committee of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, lias received a telegram signed by Messrs. C. M. Gray, G. Witty, and j ij. Davey, M.H.R.’s, stating that die Government has accepted a tender for the Arthur’s Pass tunnel on che Midland railway, at a price under £600,000. According to specifications the tunnel will be 17ft high, ioft wide, and 5 miles 25 chains 12ft in length. It will be lined throughjut. The Government Engineer’s estimate of cost was £534,000. The conditions provided are alternative renders for completion in four years or in five years. DUNEDIN, Yesterday. It is understood that the City Engineer’s report is not favourable to The erection of municipal baths. About a dozen men have been put on the Dunedin-Jloegiel duplication works through the Labor Department. The tip of a spar picked up at Sandfly Bay has been identified as portion of the boat in which Harvey put to sea a couple of weeks ago. DUNEDIN, last night. A Chinese leper who has been isolated at Macrae for some years died on Sunday.

GREYMOUTH, last niglit. The District Court resumed at 10 o’clock this .morning the hearing of a claim for £SOO damages by Catherine and AValter Scott against Hugh Cassidy for injuries received in a coach accident on the Otira-Christ-churcli road. Evidence for defendant went to show that the coach was perfectly sound and in good order, and the driver exercised all care. Counsel addressed the jury at great length, and the Judge’s summing-up lasted over an hour. The jury retired at 7.30, and after an adjournment'.of three hours the following answers to the issues submitted were given:—Was the coach unsafely loaded? —No. Was the coach in such bad order and condition as to be unsafe and to contribute to the accident? Was there any defect in the coach to which the accident was attributable which was either known to defendant, his agent, or servant, or which iu the exercise of precaution or skill might have become known to him or them —No. Was the said accident attributable to the want of skill or the negligence on the part of defendant’s driver? Was the said accident attributable to the unsafe loading, and what damages?— £54 2s general damages and £45 18s special. The question of costs will be settled to-morrow.