YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2158, 14 August 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, yesterday. At the Supreme Court to-day a charge of manslaughter against' W. R. Woodhouse, a young man concerned in the motor-bicycle fatality at New Brighton, was called. Last session the grand jury threw out the bill, but tho police again proceeded, and this session the grand jury brought in a true bill. His Honor to-ilay fixed the hearing for Friday.

Mrs. Margaret Stalker died suddenly at AVoodend at 9.30 last evening of heart' failure. She was a widow, and aged 87 years. The town is full of people for the Grand National. Tlio wather is tine but cold. The Canterbury Journalists’ Union has a membership of twenty-three and a credit balance of £65. The sixth annual report has now been issued. It states that the journalists of Auckland are taking steps to form a union, and the organisation will be established as soon as the right of working journalists to register under the Arbitration Act is made clear. In the meantime the committee of the Canterbury Union has addressed journalists of the colony, urging that they form efficient organisations. An attempt was made to hold a conference on tho question during the Exhibition season, but a suitable opportunity for such a meeting did not occur during tho busy first weeks the Exhibition, and the idea had to be abandoned.

William Umber, a laborer, dropped dead at 6 o’clock last evening at Holmslea estate, JJakaia. It is supposed heart failure was the cause. TIMARU, yesterday.

The Borough Council last night let the first contract in connection witli the underground drainage scheme. This was for a tunnel through the cliff north of Caroline Bay, laying pipes, and constructing service tanks. There wore six tenders, that of Palliser and Sons being accepted at £2OIO. The A.M.P. Society', whoso offer to supply tho drainage loan had been accepted, now wrote stating that a special rate must be struck as security for tho loan. To this the Council objected, and decided if the A.M.P Society will not accept tho general rate as security they will raise the money from another source. AUCKLAND, yesterday.

Martin’s hotel at To Puke, containing thirty rooms, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. Very little was saved. Tho granddaughter of the licensee was rescued from a bed upstairs when the building was in flames. The hotel was owned by Timothy Ivenealy, of Auckland, and was valued at- £2OOO. It is believed to have been uninsured. The furniture and stock were valued at £IOOO, and were insured in the United for £SOO.

D ANNE VIRTvE, yesterday

A case, Fairhurst v. the Cyclopedia co., upon which 27 similar cases do pend, was argued in the S.M. Court to-day. It is an action to ieco-.-r the amount paid on a work knov n as the New Zealand Cyclopedia, on the ground that it was not of the character represented by the canvassers. Plaintiff was nonsuited.

WELLINGTON, yesterday.

In the divorce case, John Mellwhan v. Amy Mellwhan and Walter Fails co-respondent, Mr Justice Button to day granted a decree nisi. The body of a man was found In the harbor this morning. It is be-

lieved to have been in the wafer five or six weeks, and the features are almost unrecognisable.

Two sexton beetles will bury mole in an hour, a feat equal to two men burying a forty-foot whale i the same time.

Beetles are the most widely spread of all insects. . Spitzbergeri is almost the only known land where they are not found.