DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2201, 27 May 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 26.

A number of Angora goats were put up for auction at Buckland anil Co.’s sale to-day, and realised good prices. There appears to be a demand for these animals, and the epartment of Agriculture lias purcliased 10 of them for stock purposes. They will be sent to Bickerstaff experimental farm at Kaipara.

AVELLINGTON, May 26.

Itobt. Brown was sentenced at the Supreme Court to-day to four months’ imprisonment for stealing a watch and chain. Thomas George, alias McGuire, was sentenced to two years imprisonment for stealing a travelling trunk from the New Zealander hotel. Herbert Edward Hamilton Bird was charged with stealing goods and money to the value of £7l 15s from Tlios. Major Shore. The evidence was not concluded when the •Court rose for the day, ■ CHRISTCHURCH, May 26.

At a meeting of the City Council to-night, it was resolved to raise a loan of £17,000 to .improve and extend the municipal electric supply plant. It was reported that the receipts from tho municipal baths since the opening a fortnight ago had totalled £203. It was resolved to wait on tho Premier, when he arrives early next month, and protest against the rail charges from Lyttelton, to Christchurch on steel pipes for tho water supply system. The charges, which are based on measurement and not .on dead weight, amounted to 5s per ton for the distance, 61 miles, whereas the charge between Dunedin and Invercargill, 189 miles, was only 18s per to The Premier will give a- political address here oil Monday, June Bth. Beatrice Shields, a child 5 years ot a <re, was admitted to-the hospital on Saturday suffering from severe burns, the result of her clothes catching fire. She died yesterday. A verdict of accidental'death was returned at the inquest. DUNEDIN, May 26.

Nominations for the Tuapeka seat closed to-day, and the following candidates were nominated: Dr. Chappie, James Horn, and Robert Scott. At the Supremo Court to-day John Friend, charged with assaulting a girl aged nine years and four months at Port Chalmers, was found not guilty. William Ravenwood pleaded not guilty to a charge of forging a birth certificate. The evidence showed, that accused was horn in 1886, lpu. that he thought he was 23 years past. He sent in an application to the Railway Department for employment, anil made .it appear ho yas horn in JpHL His explanation of. tho the figures in the birth certificate was that the figures were so indistinct e could scarcely make them out. The jury returned a verdict of no guilty. NAPIER, May 26.

A. married woman named Elizabeth Clark, aged 61 years, wife .of Arthur Clark, a cook, was found dead in the back yard of her residence in Chaucer Road this afternoon. In tlie morning she seemed to he in her usqal health. She was a sufferer from dsthNataT farmers are reported tp have acquired’ a. prqpejfty of 600 acie’6 in the Onga Onga./district;. The Hons. J. Carroll and J. McGowan left for Gisborne by staapier this evening, . . After partaking of oatmeal porridge and bananas as a breakfast, four children of Thomas List, of Hastings, showed symptoms of poisoning, hut the doctor succeeded in bringing them A fireman named McCorkindale took suddenly ill in the cab of. (ns locomotive when tlie nnddqv traip was betaveen To Aute and Hastings to-day. He was conveyed to a private hospital in Hustings, where ho is progressing favorably. He is a young man, and liis people live at Hokitika-,