DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2607, 15 September 1909, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

A SERIOUS CHARGE. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND. Sept, 14. In connection with the finding of the dead body of an infant in a garden at Epsom, the police arrested a girl named Isabella Sinclair, at Mount Albert. She was to-day charged with concealment of birth, and remanded. IMPROVING BREED OF SADDLE HORSES. At a meeting of the Auckland Racing Club Committee, held to-night, a motion w r as proposed and carried that the club donate a sum of £IOO, to be given as prizes at the shows held by the Agricultural and Pastoral Associations of the Auckland province, for the best thoroughbred entires calculated to improve the breed of saddle horses.

DEPRESSION IN THE CaP.TAL. WELLINGTON, Sept. 14 R. H. Abbot and Co. have closed up their warehouse here, and A. Beniamin and Co. are about to follow suit. In another wholesale firm a number of dismissals have occurred, and salaries have been reduced ten per cent. PORIRUA ASYLUM. A new wing for the female r* licuts is to be added at once to the Forirua Asylum, at a cost- <2- £B6OO. The work is to be done by Toe Public Works Department, which expects it to be finished in five months’ time. OBITUARY. John Valintine, formerly of the 65th regiment, aged 96; Wm. j. Foster, for years Town Cie?rk of Melrose, and latterly an officer of the City Council, aged 58; Charles W. Meachan, late of the Treasury, aged 75 years. KUBELIK AS DEFENDANT. DUNEDIN* Sept. 14. In the Supreme Court to-daybefore Mr. Justice Williams and a special jury of twelve, the hearing of the case in which Hugo Gorlitz is suing Jan Kubelik, violin virtuoso, for £3XX) damages, was begun. The statement of claim set forth that on February 20th, 1906, at Chicago, the plaintiff entered into a contract with defendant for a concert tour of Australia and New* Zealand in that year, not less than forty concerts to be given, and that on May 27th, 1906, the defendant refused to carry out the contract. The defence was & denial that a contract had been entered into. The case is not yet finished.