YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2237, 14 November 1907, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. AUCKLAND. At a meeting of creditors of John Sterling, storekeeper, of Rauriiniu, the Official Assignee stated that debtor disappeared in October last with his wife and belongings, leaving liabilities amounting, to £I4OO and assets estimated at about £4OO. A warrant had been issued lor his arrest. So far as ho could ascertain, ■bankrupt must have had considerably over £SOO when ho disappeared. The meeting adjourned to enable the Assignee to realise the assets. The principal creditor said he would do his utmost to have bankrupt apprehended. . / The return for the AViaihi Grand Junction Mino is 2680 tons, valued at £5979. At a meeting of the Board of Go-vernors-it was stated that 85 schools ■in Auckland district were seriously affected by the epidemics of the past two quarters. Tlio attendance at several of the schools was affected over 10 per cent. The Board resolved to urge the Minister for Education to amend the regulations to enable the average attendance ‘for 1906 to bo substituted for 1907 in schools affected by epidemics. interviewed on the subject of tlio proposal emanating from Wellington for the aggregation of holidays, MuBrooks, president of the Trades and Labor Counoil, siid the matter would bo threshed out at a meeting of that body to-night. Personally he regarded the proposal to bunch holidays and suspend business at the end of tlio year as impracticable. He ■also o x,presscd the opinion that workers did not want a half-holiday gazetted. The president of the Employers’ Association said the Association had confined itself to urging the Government as far as possible to. observe moveable holidays on Mondays. Employers felt the urgent need of some better arrangement than that nowexisting. DUNEDIN. Dunedin booksellers, in forwarding U protest to the Minister of Customs against the duty on Weldon's Ladies’ Journal,, alleged that the Journal is mainly used by mothers and families to aid in home dressmaking, and the duty iseonsequently a tax ora the dissemination of useful knowledge. The selling price has gone up from fourpence to li'inepeilce in consequence of the duty, and the sale is practically killed.