DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2282, 29 August 1908, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

[Press Association.]

AUCKLAND, August 28. The Ilawoii Jins now boon adrift for nearly a uiontli, .and tlio Aooix is 21 days overdue. There aro no further tidings of the missing vessels. NAPIER, August 28. The annual meeting of the Jlawl.o’s Bay Employers’ Association to-night passed a resolution in the same terms as that of the Auckland Association, deprecating the appeals of Labor organisations for the removal of Mr. Justice Sim from the position of President of the Arbitration Court.

WANGANUI, August 28. At the Police Court this morning, Loti tin Broad was charged with having, at Wanganui, on August. 17th, abandoned an infant under the age of two years. This was the outcome of the sensational finding of a child in a coal-box. The evidence showed thai a young woman gave birth to ail illegitimate child in Dunedin, and in response to an advertisement asking for some person to adopt the infant, Mrs. Broad offered to take it for £4O. This sum was ovcntually paid, together with £lO for legal oxpenscs. Mrs. Broad brought the child to Wanganui and deposited it in a'coalbox, Accused was committed for trial at the Supremo Court at Palmerston North on September Bth. Bail was allowed. The Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting to-night passed a resolution regretting that the Trades Unions had passed strictures on Mr. Justice Sim. Mr. J. H. Kisling was re-elected President of the Chamber. WELLINGTON, August 29.

A dangerous mode of amusement was devised by a young man, Denis Wm. Quill, when ho took to masquerading in feminine attire through the public streets. At'tirod as a woman, Quill was apprehended in Pirio Street, or thereabouts, one night lately alter ten o’clock and conducted to the police station. This morning accused, defended by Mr. Devine, appeared before Mr. W. P. Janies, S.M., at the Magistrtae’s Court, chargod with being an idle and disorderly person, within the meaning of the Police Offences Aot, and with masquerading in tho dress of a woman. In defence it was urged that accused had not been scon interfering with passers-by in any way, and had his strange garments merely as a means of providing himself with a new gaiety. The borrowed garments exhibited had come in for some rough treatment while accused was being chaperoned to the police station, and were a mass of disorder. Quill assured the Bench that he had bought them cheap and out of sheer devilment, wearing them for a similar fantasy. Ilis Worship pointui out that accused was liable to a ■ontence of six months for the offence and admonished him to forego jokes of such a nature. The charge was dismissed.

CHRISTCHURCH, August 28. Mr. L. Edgar E. Stead and party for tho past few weeks have been engaged in extracting the skeleton from the carcase of the whale stranded near Okariti, on the West Coast, and they returned to-night. Mr. Stead states that with the exception of one palate bone which could jiot be found, the complete skeleton has been secured. The skeleton is _ now in a punt moored near Okariti wharf, and it will be shipped to-Lyttelton on the earliest opportunity. The Christchurch Museum auhorities will, It is understood, be negotiating for the purchase of the skeleton, which is claimed to be one of the largest in the world. .

DUNEDIN, August 28. At a meeting of directors of Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser and Co. (Near Zealand Drug Company), an interim dividend for the half-year at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum was declared.