DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2498, 11 May 1909, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

CHARGE OF FORGERY

(Per Press Association.)

NAPIER, May 10. Arthur Frake, who pleaded guilty to stealing a cheque ana forging an endorsement to the same, was committed to the Wellington Supreme Court for sentence. THE “TRUTH” PROSECUTION. WELLINGTON, May 10. Mr. Riddell, S.M., was to give judgment this morning in the prosecutions for selling “Truth,” but the point was raised; based on a recent English case, that the information should state specifically whether the publication was alleged to be indecent, obscene _or immoral. The Crown Prosecutor intimated that in the present case he would place “indecency” as the main indictment. Rehearing was fixed for the 19th just. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. The Conference of the Society ol Friends, which opened yesterday, was continued to-day. A discusion lasting several hours took place on the question of starting a Friends’ Colony in New Zealand. All the speakers strongly favored the idea. The conference was not open to the press. A SERIOUS CHARGE. ~NELSON, May 10. A youth, aged 14i years, named Dennis Richard Dane, was remanded till Saturday on a charge of outraging a chi’d. ao-ed 6$ vears, at Stoke. ihe girl is too ill to appear for some days. WESTLAND CHEESE IN ENGLAND. , HOKITIKA, May 10. Mark Sprot and Company, agents for the, Inter-Wanganui Cheese Factory, have received advice from their London representatives that the first shipment of cheese arrived in splendid condition, and realised 63s pe r cwt. Such excellent returns will encourage other sett'eiiients in South Westland to ■ ut.hsc the fine pastoral country m that loca ity for dairying. A SUPPOSED MOTOR- ACCIDENT. CHRISTCHURCH, May 10. AO a meeting of. the _ Canterbuiy Automobile Association to-night, « was decided to offer £lO rpwaid foi nvHonoe fending to the conviction of So ,Son if a. motorist, responsible fin- a recent accident near wherebv a road overseer was knocked off his bicycle, and left on the - conscious and badly injured. It is a - leged that a motor car caused the acudent.

BURGLARY AT AUCKLAND. ' - AUCKLAND. May 10., The Tramway Company s Epsom dcnot was' burglariously entered about one o’clock on Sunday morning, and £95 in coin stolen.