DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2321, 14 October 1908, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

[Press Association.] AUCKLAND. Oct. 13. _ At the Anglican Synod Vto-day the Rev. IS. C.. Budd, referring to the position of-the Homo Mission.-clergy Slid that many were receiving only £l3O a year, which was equal to the wage paid to ordinary laborers. He made a plea for increased stipends. The stipend of Bishop Neligan was increased from £SSO to £looo* a year. 'The Rev. Isaac Jolly, of Palmerston North, was nominated by the Auckland Presbytery to-night as Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly for the .ensuing year. AY AX BOA, Oct. 13. A Native named Kawhira was killed .yesterday while busli-felling at Ormond’s Alahia station. The past winter' has caused the ' .re itest mortality yet known among •ao nat ves of this district. NAPIER, October 13. At the inquest to-day touching the death of John Graham, aged 33, who was found dead with his throat cut, at Karamiu, near Hastings, on Monday, tlie jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane. One witness stated that on one or two -occasions Graham had complained of not being able to sleep. AA’ELLINGTON, Oct. 13. Four days after leaving Newcastle the crew of the barquentine Helga had a desperate conflict with a fire. About 10 o’clock smoke was issuing from tlie store-room, owing to ait overturned .lamp. After half-an-liour tlie outbreak was extinguished. There was a small fire a. few days later in tho galley, owing to the funnel being eirried away. It was easily extinguished. At a meeting of the Police Provident Board to-day, pensions were granted as follows: Inspector MacDonnell, Napier, 33 years’ service, £225 per annum; Constable A. Crozier, Palmerston' North, 3S years’ service, £lO4 per annum. The following is Captain Edwin’s weather forecast to 3 p.m. to-morrow: Moderate to strong southerly winds northward of Napier and AYanganui, with rising barometer; and fine weather, with westerly strong winds to gale thence southward, with falling barometer and rain. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 13.

It i:: not- known how the sum of £4OO voted by Parliament last week lor the Canterbury Aluseum will be •'pent. Air. G. AY. Russell, chairman of the Board of Governors, states that -ho :is waiting for a communication from the Government in order to ascertain if tlie" Government- intends to make any suggestion in regard to the method of spending the money. ;

' It is understood, writes the Hanoi e-r Springs correspondent of the “Lyttelton Times,” that the motorcar bridge which is to be erected over the Ha inner river on the CulverdenHanrner road is to he 500 ft long, comprising twenty-five 20ft spans. It is to bo placed near the site of the present road across the river bed. An attempt was made during the early hours of Sunday morning to rob Mr. J. N. R. Lawrey’s store at Kirwee. A pane of glass in the trout window was cut out, and the burglar evidently passed his anil through the opening and unlocked the door, which was found open on Sunday morning. Nothing was missed from the store, and it is surmised that the burglar had been alarmed hero re he had had time to enter the building. Recently a series of burglaries were committed in the Templeton district, stores being entered and goods stolen. As a result of investigations made, detectives visited Islington to-day and secured a quantity of the stolen property in "the possession of two men, ono an Australian and the other a recent arrival from South Africa.

The motor garage of Messrs Dexter and Crozier was burglariously entered yesterday, and several gold medals from a trophy case were stolen. TIMARTJ, October 13. Competitions in connection with the second-class hand contest commenced last evening, the prizes in each case being a gold medal 'and two guineas for first,- and a silver medal and ono guinea for second (maximum 90 points). Results were: Fugel horns, four entrants, R. R. Munro (Tiniaru) 89, 1; AY. AVildemotli (Invercargill), 2. E flat cornets, five entrints, R. McNiisli (Bluff Navals), 80, 1; A. Haslcin (Ashburton Temperance) 76, 2. B flat cornets, 13 entrants. E. Sullivan (Lyttelton) So, I; Y\\ Wearn (Lyttelton) 80, 2 ;AV. Mayo (Timaru) 79, 3. E flat basses, seven competitors, H. (Segar (Timaru) 79, 1 ;V, . Wood (Dunedin Citizens) 71. 2; A. Waters and E. Chikls (Lyttelton Marine) 68, 3. B fl it basses, three, competitors, 11. Anthony (Lyttelton Marine) 75, 1; D. Miller (Bluff Navals) 74, 2. BB flat basses, seven competitors, R. Brown (Dominion) 81, 1,; Collins (Timaru Navals) 75, 2 ; T.' Rogers (Elite) 74, 3. B flat baritones, eleven competitors. AY. Rowland (Elite) 75, IS. H. Higman (Elite) 74, 2; .J. Nunns (Ashburton Temperance) 73, 3. GORE, October 13. The first meeting of the Gore Higli School Board of Governors was held this afternoon. ‘ Mr. Andrew Martin was elected chairman, Air. John ArcGibbon honorary secretary and treasurer. The plans of the building, to cost about £4OOO, submitted by the Southland Education Board’s architect, were considered, and other formal business was transacted.