DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2648, 2 November 1909, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

AUCKLAND CUSTOMS DUTIES

J Pick Phkbs Association.l AUCKLAND, Nov. 1. Tho Customs duties • received at Auckland for October total £59,923, an increase of £5678 on October of last year. The exports, which show an increase in almost every line, were: Gold and silver, £38,612; butter, £16,385; cheese, £3832; wool, £4749; llax, £3074: tallow, £3172; gum, £34,774 all' increases! on tho October 1908 exports.

THE, MONTHLY GOLD RETURNS

The gold returns for October show the bullion won to be of a value of £111,046, an increase on tlie corresponding month of 1908 of £4096. Ihe Waiotahi gave a return of £1054 from 163 tons of, ore and 321bs of picked stone.

NEW CUSTOMS lIEVENUI.

NEW. PLYMOUTH,, Nov. 1. The Customs revenue for October totalled £3446, as against £3402 last year.

A FORTUNE teller fined

WELLINGTON, Nov. 1. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., delivered his reserved judgment to-day_in a ease heard the other day, in winch Mary Lyons, alias Madame Hyland, was charged with fortune telling. Ihe defendant was convicted and fined £3, in default seven days’ imprisonment.

THE MISSING DUCO

The date of the Magisterial inquiry into the disappearance of the Hugo will be fixed in a day or two. Dr. McArthur, S.M., will probably preside. Captain W. J. Grey, formerly of the Customs Department, will he nautical assessor, and Mr. Jas. McLean, of Devon Street, who holds a first-class certificate, will act as engineer’s assessor. Mr. C. S. Nixon, Collector of Customs, will represnt the Marine Department.

DECEASED PERSONS’ ESTATES

During the last month the estates of 214 deceased persons were finally certified to for stamp duty. The largest were those of Richard May Morten, Christchurch. £83,878, and the Raw. Cockburn, Christchurch, £31,61/ ; Robert A. Forrester, Christchurch, £23,558; Alfred Bayley, Wellington £19,308 ; John Fleming Douglas, Otago, £17,769; Henry dames Lndejpvood, Wellington (drowned in the wreck of the Penguin), £11,265.

SLY-GROG SELLING CONVICTION

W. H. McLaughlan, charged with sly-grog selling, was to-day fined £2O, with costs. Leave to appeal was granted.

RHODES SCHOLARSHIP CANDIDATE.

Mr. Robert Kennedy, B.A.,has Been selected bv the Victoria College as its Rhodes scholarship candidate. He is 22 years of age, and has secured first class in every class he has attended.

A PROJECTED CREMATION

The body of the late Mr. John Jack, merchant, of Wellington, will bo cremated to-morrow, and the ashes will he sent to the family vault at Dundee. This will be the first cremation in the Dominion.

WESTLAND WATER-POWER PETITION.

HOKITIKA, Nor. 1. The president. Mr. T. Korkin, and the secretary, Mr. F. D. Baucke of the Rimu Miners’ Association,, have been appointed by the Association to proceed to Wellington by the Arahura to give evidence before the Parliamentary Committee in reference to the petitions from Westland, asking for an amendment of the water-power regulations.

A FRUIT SHOP GUTTED BY FIRE

CKEYMOUTH, Nov. 1. A fire this morning completely gutted a shop owned by Mrs. Foot (Wairoa), and occupied by Eastgate (fruiterer). The adjoining premises of Holmes, painter, were damaged, the upper storey suffering principally.

CANTERBURY A. AND P. SHu \V • ENTRIES.

CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 1

Tlie! entries received for the. Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Show this year show an increase of 204 over the total of last The principal increases are in sheep (73), cattle (33), pigs (16), and dairy produce (94). The grand total for 1909 is 2014; last year it was 1810.

LICENSING PROSECUTION DISMISSED.

DUNEDIN, Nov. 1. The Magistrate dismissed the information against Maurice Coghlan, of the Privincial Hotel, for selling liquor to an intoxicated person on the ground that, the evidence did not disclose any sale, also l the information against the bawnan for supplying liquor, on the ground that there was not sufficient evidence that the man was drunk.

A LICENSING PROSECUTION.

At the Police Court to-day John Morrison, licensee of the European Hotel, was charged with supplying liquor to a person already in a state or intoxication. It was admitted that the liquor was supplied by the brother of the licensee, and for the defence the point was raised that the servant and not the licensee was answerable. Decision was reserved. , > ’;