DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2236, 31 October 1908, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

[PitiuSS Association.]

A COASTAL WRECK. AUCKLAND, Oct. 30

The Collector of Customs lias received from the coast waiter at Thames a telegram stating that, wreckage, including a ship’s spar and some gear, has been found 22 miles along riie coast.

TRAMWAY UNION’S FINE. AU GEL AND, Oct. 30 Mr. Rosser, secretary of the Tramway Union, points out that the Arbitration Court ordered the Union to pay £6O. tothe)appeU'anty and that the appellant was the Inspector of Factories, and not the Tramway Company. The line will therefore be paid to the Tabor Department. A VALUABLE FRONTAGE. AUCivTAiND, Oct. 30. A section with 35ft. frontage ill* Queen'Street and a depth of 1001 c, and having a building four-storey high, known as the Mutual Lite Build-’ mgs, has been sold to Mr. E. O’Connor, hotel-keeper, for £20,000. THE TUTANEKAI. ' WELLINGTON, Oct. 30. The Tutanekai is expected to finish repairing the Wanganui cable to-day. About two miles or new line will be spliced into the damaged section. FOOTBALLING PAYS. WELLINGTON, Oct. 30 H. Wrigley, a well-known Masterton footballer, who was a member of the professional team, has joined the Huddersfield Club, receiving £4OO down and £2 10s per week. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 30 Edward Gustavos Mark was committed for trial' to-day on a charge of having stolen a horse, trap and harness, and other goods early this month. THE TIMARU SHOW. TTMARU, Oct. 30. The annual show at Tiimiru was highly successful on both days. In most of the classes the prizes went to local exhibitors. In sheeji a fair number went North and South, and the most important in horses went to Ashburton and Oamaru. The features of the contests were those for hunters, in which some extraordinarily fine form was seen. The judges highly praised the light horse classes. Mr. Massey M.P., who was a guest, said he had never seen a better class of roadsters and harness horses. The weather was fine on both days, and the show was quite a record. THE ANGLICAN SYNOD. DUNEDIN, Oct. 30. The third session of the fourteenth Anglican synod concluded its business last evening. It was reported that between £3OOO and £4OOO had yet to be raised before the diocese was entitled to claim the amount left under the will of the late Mr Ilarrop, wherewith to build the Cathedral. It was resolved that assessments for the future lie based on a percentage of all general offertories, subscriptions, income from endowments and property, and seat rents, such a basis of assessment to come into operation after next Synod. Further discussion took pl'aco oh a motion in connection with clergymen’s stipends, which was unanimously agreed to. It was also agreed that the standing Committee, having power to add to its number, consider the whole question during the next twelve months. Members were unanimously of opinion that clergymen were shame_ fully underpaid. SIX MONTHS’ FOR FORGERY. Mr. Justice "Williams this morning sentenced Herbert Helm to six months for forgery at the Bluff. Ho was only discharged from gaol five weeks previously. THE MEIKLE CASE. INVERCARGILL, Oct. 30. In reply to a question at his Woodlands meeting the Hon. R. McNab said that the Government would not again introduce the proposal to give Meikle £SOOO. SOUTHLAND SCHOOL TEACHERS DISAPPOINTED. In view of the keen disappointment of Southland teachers, that the minimum salaries under the new scale aro apparently not to come into force next year, the Teachers’ Institute interviewed Mr. Hanan, M.P., who expressed surprise at the Minister’s construction of the Act. Through the taking of evidence by the Education Committee the assumption had been that the increases would be immediate, and that he believed was the prevailing impression among members. He admitted that the Minister’s interpretation was quite tenable, but said it would involve injustices not contemplated, and he promised to discuss the matter with the Premier.