MAGISTERIAL

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2481, 21 April 1909, Page 6

MAGISTERIAL

~ t: ;! ■■ —-r— ! . r ,.j 7-7-7 ——* t ■ .; , , [ - /«•"• {Before Mi'. AV. : A. : Bartori, S.M.)g;;;''. / t, :i .; ,Jlimes ’ Hamilton ’ was charged.. with haying ;been.;found drunk on; the railway platform,; Gisborne,, on Monday. He .admitted .a; previous conviction for\ drunkenness) and pleaded| guilty to thSii charge • ;and vy.as costs 2s in default-2£ hours, imprisonment. .M'jil.i 'ln . iDonaldii.Bain; p- iprphibitpd , person, pleaded, .guilty ! ,to; paying been {.found, on.licensed -premises on AVednesclay last., The; defendant ! /said, 1 fie only ,went, into 'the iTuranganuif Hotel ;to sep. .a frieiid.-,;' i ■>: Am 1 f,, (The barman,at tfho .Turangtvnui Hotel said, that:defendant asked for; a, ibottlo, of/beer, yi .7 lli vrtnlf. -uti' te,v:'l v.ev. • His, -Worship saida very;lame .excuse had . bebnl put 1. forward 7 and r the-- story told ’could - nOt be believed. • A -fineioi';+l3' with costs' would' -be inflicted/ Ig; default! 14 days!! imprisomnent.’ on would - have- dared-, bettor had. .you told tho: truth/:’Tadded ) his Worship.,,.;, ,

;?rry?ftr.'j In reference to th.o discovery of pla-gue-stricken' rbdbnt's in' Sydiiey, J)r • Purdy, (district health., ofijicer for'Auckland, considers'' tlferb ! r ls ■ lio ‘need for alarm, in' fhat city: 'He ' states* thiat Auckland is far better able to ,cope :\yitlif an Attack' now ' than' i-ii was tit the . time of'''tlie 'last' inyhsio'iit while the -rigid system of inspection makes it extremely difficult Jot., .to communicate the. disease to others before being detected; Since,the last r gue scar 4 in Auckland, Hr ; purdy says, the number of rats there ;ha»s greatly : decreased,- owing principally to the systematic extermination oh rats coLected chiefly around the wharves, and to the. : v.v' v c.rof! sanitary condition c’ the cdy. ; ] . ■/ ,f • .... h ■ 1 tW' y/niu 7*Lvfc 1 wLI V J&J'?: fi ’M

The longest continuous,.run on a .railway train .inJEurope is that from Paris to Constantinople, 1,921 miles in' (31J hours. p 1 •” 1 According to the Ekotahun A Express, two ladies'arc niehtionefl as being probable’candidates at the; forthcoming Borough Council election in Eketahuna. ’ Last week a settler was. traversing the beach,.near Nuhaka; when die.ob-. served a groat commotion in the sea close, in-shore, the water reddehf ed with blood. ,; tety'shortly afterwards } a largo'dead •' i was -w a shod ashore.' 'lit. is surmised that a, swordfish had waged a successful battle with the \ik:Uo sp>c:es t : :