DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2510, 25 May 1909, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

A CHILDREN’S DREADNOUGHT FUND.

[Pun Phess Association.]

DARGAVILLE, May 24. The school children, acting on the suggestion of the chairman, Mr. F. J. Dargaville, have opened a penny Dreadnought fund. All the schools in the Dominion are to be asked to open a similar fund, the amount subscribed to be handed to Sir Joheph TVard, with the request that a Mece of silver lie purchased and placed in New Zealand s first Dreadnought as a gift from the school children of New Zealand.

HOT WEATHER

PALMERSTON N.. May 24

The heat in Palmerston North yesterday Avas intense for May. It was accompanied in the afternoon by a heavy down pour of rain, which lasted fully an hour. So far an exceptionally mild winter has been experienced. The stock is looking well, grass being abundant.

OLD AGE PENSIONER DISAPPEARS

HASTINGS, May 24. An old age pensioner, Frederick Thomas Farr, aged 66 years, a carpent—er. disappeared on Friday, and lias not been hoard of since. He left a note, “Feel deserted by everyone; am going away anywhere.” The police acceptmt as a case of suicide, as Farr had previously made an attempt on lib life. PRICE OF MEAT REDUCED. WELLINGTON. May 24. The Wellington butchers have reduced the price of meat for cash. A SCOW ASHORE. WELLINGTON, May 24. The secretary of the Post Office lias been advised that the scow Echo ashore yesterday on the south side or the Iveramea River. The crew are sale. TECHNICAL SCHOOL AT WESTPORT. NELSON, May 24. The Minister for Education goes on to Westport to open the technical school to-morrow. NO-LICENSE MEETING! AT ASHBURTON. ASHBURTON, May 24 At the No-license meeting to-niglit. attended bv SOO people, resolutions were carried without dissent, emphatically contradicting the statements made bv Mr Bosnia. member of the Queensland Assembly. The motion was of considerable length, and denied in detail undei five headings the Queenslanders charges. ALLEGED THEFT. INVERCARGILL. May 24. A man giving the name of Percy - at Iviim, and describing lnmsclf as a ti.iveller for the Cascade Brewery, of Hobart, was arrested on a charge of stealing jewellery to the value of Ulo ios from the boarding house of Annie Cowan Christchurch. A further charge of the theft of 14 sovereigns from a hoarder at the Club Hotel here will probably also be made against accused. RETIRED FROM BUSINESS. WELLINGTON, May 24. Judah Myers, founder of the non ot J. Myers and Co., Wellington, retired from business to-day He is r. years of age, and has bcc *Y* ?to Zealand half a century. He came to Wellington from the' Most Coast m IS7S. ' COLLISION WITH A WHALE. On Mav 6tli. when the barque H' a ~ kemba.. which reached today from Liverpool, was off Cape ceu Aviii sho cut a sixty foot whale in two. The’ sea was covered with blood and blubber for a considerable distance. ADMITTED TO PROBATION. WELLINGTON, May 24 At the Supreme Court to-day John Thomas Driscoll, who had admitted stealing a portmanteau and ™ nte £ it s : valued at £3 5s 6d, from the Utj Buffet Hotel, was admitted to probation for 12 montlis. .