DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2544, 3 July 1909, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (Per Press Association f WELLINGTON, July 2. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister of Agriculture, left Wellington for Auckland by the Main Trunk line to-day. MENDELSSOHN CENTENARY. PALMERSTON N., July 2. The Mendelssohn centenary was celebrated here last night by a performance by the Palmerston North Chora! Society of St. Paul under the baton of Maurice Cohen, in the presence of a large audience, including Lady Plunket. The proceeds are to be devoted to the Plunket Nurse and District Nurse Funds. A very fine performance was given, about 200 participating. Thesoloists were Messrs Hill and Parkes '(Wellington), Mesdames Bath and Harper. and Miss Drewe (Palmerston North). LADY PLUNKET FOR AUCKLAND. Lady Plunket, Miss Hill, and family go to Auckland to-day to reside at theGovernment House there until the end of September. Lord plunket is expected to join them from Cook Islands on the 6th or 7th' inst. The party subsequently returns to the Palmerston North residence, after being in Wellington during the. session. UTTERING SPURIOUS COINS. NELSON, July 2. Guy Hill, supposed to be a Wellington man, has been remanded till Monday on a chargo of uttering a silvered penny for half-a-erowu at an hotel. MEMORIAL TO NEW ZEALAND’S GRACE DARLING. WELLINGTON, July 2. A memorial photograph of the late liuria Matenga* of Cable Bav. Kelson, who saved the crew of the ship Delaware in 1863 and oarned the title ot the Grace Darling of New Zealand, was? unveiled by tlio Hon. James Carroll, Acting-Premier, at the Missions to Seamen Institute to-night. ARBITRATION COURT. INVERCARGILL,' July 2. The Arbitration Court sat till late to-night hearing a claim by W. RTurnbull for £3OO, for injury to his ■ heart alleged to have been sustained while working for the National Mortgage Co. - Decision was reserved. The Court goes to Dunedin by the first. express to-morrow. The convenience and great efficacious-, ness of Stearns’ Headache Cure is best vouched for by the millions of wafers* taken last year. Its users form a constantly increasing number.