DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2203, 29 May 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

Press Association. AIAiSTERTONj May 28. At a meeting this evening of delegates from a number of Collio Clubs, it was decided to form a Collie Club Association for the North Island with the object of the regulation of dog trials ,and the ensuring of payment of fees by competitors. G. Sykes was appointed secretary. WELLINGTON, Alay 28. The tonnage of cargo handled at the port of Wellington during the year ended Alarcli 31st, reached a total of 2,745,875 tons, an increase of 86,538 tons over the total for tho previous year. CHRISTCHURCH, Alay 28. -- At an inquest held to-night touching tho death of -an old man named Win. Bachelor, who fell off a tramcar on Tuesday night and sustained injuries from which -he died, a verdict was returned that death was due to injuries caused by -alighting from a car while in motion.

At the Farmers’ Union Provinical Conference resolutions were carried recommending the Government to pay auctioneers’ license fees into a fund to bo used for hospital and charitable aid purposes; objecting to tlio introduction of any system of graduated subscriptions for members, and favoring a uniform subscription system throughout the Dominion, the minimum to be not less than 10s per head.

At an inquest to-niglit touching tlio death of Airs. Lowe ; which occurred oil Alonday, -a verdict was returned of death from blood poisoning, the result of a self-produced miscarriage. DUNEDIN, Alay 28. Tho Supremo Court was occupied all day with a chargo of manslaughter against Joseph Coddoi, resulting from a collision in the lower harbor on April 18th. Tho case was not finished when tho Court rose.

INVERCARGILL, May 28. A man named John Cotter, a fisherman, was drowned at Ituapuko Island on Tuesday. The body .was brought over to Bluff, to-night. There are no details. Tho s.s. AA’airuua was towed off tlio bank on to-night’s tide, and continued her voyage. ,