DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2383, 26 December 1908, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

MERCHANTS’ COMPLAINT ‘

[Press Association.]

PALMERSTON N., Dec 24

Palmerston merchants are making the general traffic manager an emphatic protest against the action of the .Railway Department in closing the goods , sheds .all day yesterday from 10 ami... owing to men being required to deal with the traffic in connection with the race meeting here. In consequence, it is alleged, the bulk of the Christinas trade on the main line was lost, orders being placed at Wanganui. Foxton people were also unable to get orders delivered .

DEATH GF A MISS I CHS'AIt Y

AUCKLAND, Dec. 24

Archdeacon C aider has received a cablegram stating that Dr. Henry Welchman, the well-known worker in the 'Melanesian mission has died.

THE COSTLEY HOME. The trustees of the Costley Training Institute, for boys has decided to close tile institute and sell the Richmond road property.- and invest the proceeds. The institute has been worked under financial disadvantages, owing to a dispute about the Government subsidy towards the support of about half the inmates, while difficulty has been experienced in getting suitable boys as inmates. The maximum number for some months has been about 19,. while the institute lias a capacity for double that number. The institute can only admit boys committed to an industrial school by 4 Magistrate's order. The policy of the Industrial School Department and the Charitable Aid Board favors boarding out boys rather than committing them to institution where boys of mature yeans are brought into close connection with young boys. Tlic class of boys received, moreover, is frequently unfitted for apprenticeship to trades and to withstand temptations of city life.

CROPS REPORT

WELLINGTON,Dec. 24

The following interim report on crops is gazetted (the statistics were collected 1 "from October 12 to November 7): The wheat area returned lor threshing is 250,730 acres, an 'increase of 57,594; oats, 401.0-34, an increase of 14,408; for ensilage, and feeding down, 327,9(0, an increase of 39.961. In barley, rape, and other crops an increase is shown of 182,528 acres. In peas, turnips, and other green crops there is -a decrease of 22,225.

'OBITUARY. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 24. Bishop Grimes to-day received a telegram from London, announcing the "death at 2 o’clock this morning of the Mother-General of the Sisters of Nazareth. TWO UP. Yesterday two men were fined £2 each and costs for playing two-up at Sockburu. . • ,C. A LEGACY DUTY DUNEDIN, 'Dee. 24. The Crown has lodged an appeal which will he heard at the March sitting of the Appeal Court .against■Mr justice Wdiiuns decision iclieving the .Salvation Army payment of legacy duty on the Sam uel Wilson bequest.