DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2624, 5 October 1909, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

A VESSEL ARRESTED.

[Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, Oct. 4. The Italian barque Caracciolo, which put into Auckland some time ago owing to her cargo shifting, was “arrested” to-day on a writ issued by the first mate', Mr. A. C. Benfield, for wages alleged to be owing. The writ was nailed to the mast, and a bailiff has been put aboard the vessel. NAPIER HARBOR LOAN.

NAPIER, Oct. 4. The Napier Harbor Board to-day considered the proposed Loan Empowering Bill. It was decided to increase the amount of the proposed loan for the completion of the breakwater harbor to £300,000. There is to be no provision for rating for this loan but there will ho provision for the appointment of a receiver with rating powers in case of default. No poll of the ratepayers is to be provided for.

ALLEGED SERIES OF THEFTS. 3$

PALMERSTON N... October 4. * Archibald Muir appeared before A. D. Thomson, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court, on remand on the first series of charges of theft from the National Mortgage and Agency Co,, Ltd. He was further remanded until next Monday, when all the charges will be taken together. Bail was given at the amount previously fixed, £6OO. CAVERSHAM INDUSTRIAL HOME. WELLINGTON, Oct. 4. Out of 49 applicants for the position of manager of the Caversham Industrial School, Dunedin, Miss Maud Kempton has been selected for the oppointment. Mies Kempton is at present in charge of the cliildren’s Home at Remuera, her management of which lias given great satisfaction, and she lias had large experience in work of a similar character at Home. SLY-GROG" SELLING. For sly-grog selling in Wellington a young man named John Millante was fined £lO to-day. PROHIBITIONIST DEMANDS. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 4. A largely attended public meeting was held to-night, when motions were passed urging the granting of Dominion option and 1 the bare majority in connection with the local option polls, and protesting against the sale of liquor m the King Country. OBITUARY. OAMARU, October 4. The death is reported of Mrs. Teanie Brownlee, aged 68, wife of Mr. Geo. Brownlee, seedsman. She had been a resident of Oamaru since 1874. INTERDENOMINATIONAL VISITATION. DUNEDIN, October S. The Otago Sunday School Union and Presbvterian Sunday School Association have "decided to organise an interdenominational visitation to every home in Dunedin and the suburbs, with the object of enrolling boys and girls not attending any Sunday School. SOUTHLAND LABOR MATTERS. INVERCARGILL. Oct. 4. The executive of the Southland Trades and Labor Council has been advised that the Cabinet has decided not to grant free railway passes to the delegates attending the annual conference of councils at Wellington on the 25th October. The first conference between the sawmill workers and the members of the Sawmillers’ Association, to discuss the new schedule presented by the employers recently, was held to-night, and proved abortive. It is possible that reference mav be filed for the consideration of the Conciliation Commissioner.