DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2563, 26 July 1909, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

THE TUG CHAMPION—CHARGED INCOME TAX.

[Pick Pki-kr Association AUCKLAND, July 24. Before the tug Champion left for Sydney, towing the disabled barque Leicester Castle, to-day, the captain had to deposit £2 10s, to cover income tax on the probable profits of the undertaking. The captain lodged a letter of protest, which will be forwarded to the Commissioner of Customs. In addition the Champion was required to carry eight more of a crew than on the voyage from Newcastle. The authorities adopted a similar course in regard to the Norwegian schooner Alice, trading between the Cook Islands and Auckland, hitherto manned below the New Zealand requirements.

BREAKING AND ENTERING

WELLINGTON, July 24. Arthur Frederick Wimsett was charged. on five informations with breaking 'and entering and theft from the Government Post Office, and receiving stolen goods knowing them to be stolen. He was remanded till next Wednesday, bail being allowed. RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD. WELLINGTON, July 25. Mr. W. A. Yeitcli, President of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, has resigned from the North Island Appeal Board, as a protest against the exercise of veto by the Minister of Railways in connection with decisions of the Board.

FROSTY WEATHER. 0 CHRISTCHURCH, July 24. There waj ® frost overnight, but to-day there is brilliant sunshine. The football grounds are in excellent condition.

A GERMAN SCIENTIFIC VISITOR

CHRISTCHURCH, July 25. Dr. Manes, Professor of Political Economy at the Imperial University ot Berlin, arrived from Wellington this morning. Dr. Manes is inquiring into social conditions in the Dominion, and this morning visited the local bureau or the Labor Department and saw several prominent members of the Trader) and Labor Council.

OPIUM SMOKING. A Chinaman was arrested yesterday by* a detective, who found him smoking opium, and who also impounded his smoking appliances and two tins or opium.

BUILDING DAMAGED IN CHRISTCHURCH.

A fire occured yesterday evening in premises in Hereford Street, owned and occupied by Mr. W. Wiggins,, saddler, and also occupied, amongst otheis, A. Mitchell and Co., boot, shoe, and general indent agents, on the second floor, wliero the outbreak was discovered. The motor chemical got the flames under. The rooms occupied by Mitchell and Co. were damaged, and the contents severely so. The remainder of the building was slightly damaged by smoke and neat. Mitchell and Co. s stock was insured for £750 the Roval Exchange office and £1250 m the" United Insurance Co. The insurances on the building are not available.

DEATH FROM BURNS

A little girl named Sarah Bennett, nine years of ago. who was admitted to the Christchurch hospital yesterday afternoon, suffering from burns accidentally received, died this. morning from tho effects of her injuries. • REDUCTION OF CABLE RATES. DUNEDIN, July 24. Dr. Findlay, Acting-Postmaster-Genoral, has agreed.to reduce tho terminal charge on land wires, which will enablo the press cable rates with England to be reduced from a slulhng to ninepcnce a word from August.