DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2553, 14 July 1909, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

FIRE BRIGADES’ CONFERENCE. (Pliß I’UKKP ASSOCIATION.] HASTINGS, July 13. The date of the Fire Brigades’ Conference, to be held at Hasting:?, has been fixed for February 14th, 1910. SOLICITOR COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. TAIHAPE, July 13. At Raetihi yesterday R. W. Hall, solicitor, was committed for trial on a charge of appropriation of money given to him to pay into court to satisfy ajudgment. Bail was allowed, self in MOO and a surety of £IOO. FIRES IN FEILDING. FEILDING, July 13. During the past twelve months seven fires have occurred in the borough, entailing a total loss of £2355, and a loss to the insurance companies of £1072. All the fires were in dwellings. FEILDING COURT RETURNS. The Court returns shew no serious crimes here during the past twelve months. In six monilis not one person was committed for trial. A SINGUAR DEATH. HAMILTON. July 13. John Mcßurney, a middle-aged man, was found on Sunday hanging with his head between the pickets of a fence in Main Street East. He was alive when extricated, but died this morning in the hospital. The fatality is supposed to be the result of a fit. An inquest will be held. R A HAY AY SUPERANNUATION GRANTS. WELLINGTON. July 13. At a meeting of the_ Railway Superannuation Board, retiring allowances in respect to 33 members retiring on superannuation were authorised, the grants amounting to £1761 Is 2d. Several members who had resigned from the service were granted refunds of contributions amounting to £IOS6 13s 3d. Allowances to seven widows and 16 children were also approved, the grants amounting to an annual charge of £334. In the ease of one widow left with a family of 'seven young children, and whose circumstances are very straitened. an annual allowance or £lO9 was approved until the eldest child had reached the age of 14. Refunds to legal representatives of deceased contributors totalled £6l 13s 4d. HUTT PARITrAILWAY. The Minister of Railways refused the request from a deputation of suburban bodies that the Government should purchase the iHutt Park railway, a private-ly-owned line near Pet-one, A POLICE COURT SENSATION. CHRISTCHURCH, July 13. There was a slight sensation at the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when Thomas Matthew Long claimed that a woman giving evidence was his wife, persisting in the statement that ho married her in Wellington six years ago, her maiden name being E. Cavanagli, and the woman was now living under the name of Dansfield. The woman emphatically denied the marriage. iLong was being charged with breaking a pane of glass in the house whore the woman lived. He was remanded for a week to allow him to produce the marriage certificate. THE COLONIAL OFFICE DELEGATES. Sir Clias. Lucas and Mr. A- A. Pearson, representing the British Colonial Office, arrived in Christchurch from Wellington this morning. They will remain in Christchurch for a coupe of days, and are to leave for Dunedin on Friday. AN overcrowded SCHOOL. TIMARIT, July 13. A deputation from the Alburv School Committee waited on the South Canterbury Education Board this morning and demanded increased accommodation at Albury School, where fifty infants are dailv gathered in a room. 20ft bv 20ft, 'The deputation asserted, that unless the matter received, immediate. attention the ‘parents in a body . f would boycott the school.