DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

■ - ■ A GOOD HUN. [Pick Pkkss Association.) AUCKLAND, July 19. HiM.S Encounter, which arrived from Auckland yesterday, made the run from port to port in thirty-five hours, an average speed of 17) knots an hour being niaiuntained. NURSING HOME GUTTED. CARTERTON, July 19. The Canuiethan Nursing Home was gutted by fire last night. The cause is a mystery. The insurances on the building arc £9OO, and on the furniture £SOO in the State office. The damage sustained is estimated at £2OO. STABBING! A CONSTABLE. DUNEDIN, July 19. At the Police Court to-day, Michael Coleman was committeed for trial on a charge of assaulting Constable Daubney, so as to cause him actual bodily harm. The evidence for the prosecution was to the effect that on the 2nd inst. Constable Daubney was attempting to arrest the accused on a charge of “using obscene language, when the latter stabbed him twice about the head. On a charge of using obscene language, the accused was re«»andoo until the other charge has been dealt with by the Supreme ' Court. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BALChyTHn. A four-roonied dwelling and two small shops at Balelutha were destroyed by fire this morning. The building was owned by Mr. Duthie, and insured for £2OO in the Alliance office. The furniture in the house was i mured for £9O in tlic same office. The tenants saved the stocks in the shops.