DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2227, 26 June 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

[Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June 25. A ballot for lands, mostly in tlie Puni district, took place to-day. Eor six blocks there were 735 applicants, those successful being: A. ..Williams, B. H. Budden, E. D. Elliott, M. Muritagh, W. Lamb, and IV. Tinkler. DANNEVIRiKE, Juno 25. Owing to the prevalence of scarlatina, the North School has been closed for three .weeks for fumigation and repainting. WELLINGTON, June 25. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day ■William Gunn McKay was committed for trial on a charge of stealing articles of underwear from a vessel in port. The Harbor Board has decided to erect, about 12 hot and cold shower haths in one of its stores on the ■wharves for the use of persons employed thereon. This is in the nature of an experiment, to be extended if the men avail themselves of the bath. Sanitas malted nuts, being an infants’ and invalids’ food, are to be admitted into the Dominion free of Customs duties. The following is Captain Edwin’s ■weather forecast to 3 p.m. to-mor-row: Strong winds to gale from the. westward are probable at all places northward of Napier and New Plymouth; and from the southward elsewhere; with, rain in most parts of the country, and cold weather. A heavy southerly gale is probable in the southernmost districts. NELSON, Juno 25. At the Supreme Court this afternoon, the trial of-01af Halinen and Anders Andersen, on a charge of nnirdoring John Bourke iat Westport, on May Bth, was continued. Tlie gvidenco of Constables Keenan and ißattar was taken, being as to the statements made by Connelly, the Crown’s principal witness, and the arrest of the prisoners. Constable Bnttar wag still 'in the box, when the Court adjourned. Over' 20 witnesses have yet to be. examined, and the trial is not likely to lie-finished this week. ' _ DUNEDIN, June 25. •At to-day’s mooting of the Charitable, Aid Board, it was agreed to grant assistance for the maintenance of children in the Anglican Oiplialingo, the’ Presbyterian Orphanage, and the Karitane Home. The scarlet fever epidemic is on the increase in Dunedin, and it lias been found necessary to erc.gV,; a second marquee at the fever, e-'- The infectious disc ibo-idf”! U probably bcesmipUd'.-d inxl