DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2497, 10 May 1909, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

THE RECENT CHRISTCHURCH ASSAULT CASE. [Per Press Association.] In connection with the brutal assault on a woman at LinwoGd, Ernest Nicholas, alias Power McCallunt and Wm. Nicholls were charged to-day with assaulting Sarah Falloon, and robbing her of £2. On the application of the police they were remanded until Wednesday. CHILDREN’S BREAD FUND. DUNEDIN, May 8. The Children's Bread Fund with the Otago Trades and Labor Council amounts to over. £IBOO, The total amount cabled Homo is £I7BO. WESTPORT COAL COMPANY’S MINE. Work is to be resumed in a fortnight at the Westport Coal Company’s Millerton mine, in which a fire occurred last February. The management will give preference of employment to. those who -were in the company’s service at the time, of the stoppage, should such men be applicants before the 20th. POLICE PROVIDENT FUND. A( meeting of the local _ police lastevening agreed to ask permission of the Commissioner to have a conference in Wellington to consider the proposed to the provident fund. WOMAN HANGS HERSELF. The wife of Henry Jeffries, a farmer,, near Berwick., 'committed suicide yesterday by hanging herself at the foot of a bedstead. Deceased bad been in ill-health, and was confined to bed. Three years ago she made a simialr attempt/which nearly succeeded.