DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2691, 22 December 1909, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

ANGLICAN ORDINATION. , Pimi I’tiKSH Association.! NU NAPIER, Dec 21 Rev G E. Hear, of Dannevirke district, was ordained as Cathedral on Sunday hj Bisfiop \Ui liarns. AMBULANCE COLLECTION. Street collections in aid of the Xanier division of the St. Johns Ambulance Association were made on Saturday, when about £32 was obtained. NAPIER HARBOR LOAN BILL. A member, of the Napier Harbor Board-aiat the meeting to-day referred to the amendments made in toe: Board & Loan Bill bv the Local B»lls Committoe of the ’House of Heprem,tat„«, The acting-chairman (Mr. Alev aj) sam +bi+ disc mien of the matter would be b order After the meeting «ght of the country members of the Boara telegraphed to the members of I armamentfor the district asking that the She withdrawn unless constitutions as proposed by the Board were inserted 1 and provisions regarding the poll Ifn the loan were based on the country “anohiiT“d a three-fifths instead of a bare majority. THEIR EXCELLENCIES. PALMERSTON N., Dec 21. Lord and Lady Plunket. who shortly leave Palmerston North, entertained a large number of guests at a garden partv at “Woodbey,” the \ ice-Regal residence, on Saturday. “BONUS” NON PROFIT.” HAMILTON, Dec. 21. McCandish, a milker on shares, sued a farmer for £25 as his portion of ibe shareholders’ bonus of the New Zealand Dairy Association. Air. Loughnan, S.M.. held that there was a difference between a bonus and profit. Ine defendant was asked to pay one-tnird. interest on a fund he might in the end lose, and plaintiff was nonsuited, on tn o ground that shareholders’ bonu s was not- profit. POKER A “GAME OF CHANCE.” WANGANUI, Dec. 21^ Roux Bousson was fined £lO at the Police Court this morning on a charge of keeping a common gaming house where poker was played. Prior to 190/ poker was not an unlawful game, but under section 59 of the Act of 190 S it is not necessary to prove that money was being played for. Section 10 lays down that every game of chance is unlawful, and the Magistrate decided that poker is a game of chance. FEILDING EMPLOYERS UNITE. FEILDING. Dec. 21. There was a good attendance of employers last night at a meeting held for‘ the purpose of forming a branch of the Employers’ Federation. Air. Fred Pirani was voted to the chair. It was unanimously resolved to form a branch. HEAVY FINES. STRATFORD, Dec. 21. At the Police Court this morning fines totalling £lB were inflicted on a man named Thomas Rice for assaulting the police and damaging property. CHINESE WIN IN LAW COURT. NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 21. Judgment was given this morning in the appeals of two Chinese against fines imposed by the S.AI. for having opium in their possession. Judge Edwards upheld the appeals, on the grounds that the Opium Act of 190 S. which swept away all previous enactments on the subject of opium, is defective, and tbat it permits as a good defence the plea that opium found in possession of a person had been imported or purchased by him prior to August 4,190 S, when the consolidated legislation came into force, since, in that case, it could not have been imported Or purchased in contravention of the provisions of that Act.

SUPREME COURT. WELLINGTON, Dec. 21. Mr Justice Chapman sentenced Lewis Witten, for two charges of theft and one of forgery at Hastings. Prisoner had one previous conviction ten years ago for theft. He pleaded that he was in difficulties at the time the above offences were committed. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on each charge, the terms to run concurrently 7. An order was made for the restitution of £1 13s found on the prisoner. BURGLARS IN CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 21. A gang apparently of three burglars visited a row of small shops in Colombo Street, between Cashel and Lichfield Streets, last night. They 7 were unsuccessful in the case of two shops, but managed to enter the third, though the booty proved small. At S. Clarke and Son’s jeweller shop, the middle of three, the burglars attempted to enter from the roof by removal of a skylight at the back of the shop, but iron bars prevented an entrance. Berry’s chemist shop, similar to Clarke’s, also defeated the burglars. They got into the shop of Woods, bootmaker, but nothing of value was stolen. SUPPOSED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 21. James Graham, 33 years of age, has been admitted to the hospital, evidently suffering from the effects of an irritant poison. He was about to be arrested for having failed to pay arrears on a maintenance order, when lie is supposed to have taken nitric acid. CANTERBURY TOBACCONISTS AND THE SURTAX. The Tobacconists’ Association telegraphed to the. Canterbury members Parliament that a reduction of the surtax from 2} per cent to 1 per cent was not satisfactory-, and that , not be content that sellers of should be licensed. Mr. Davey, replied that lie had placed the Assocmtion’s views before the .Premier who desired him to inform the Assoc.aaon that he regretted he could not see his wav to accede to the request. HOT WEATHER AT GORE. GORE, Doc. 21. To-dav was the hottest but one for the past fifteen rears 92 degrees being registered in tlie slifloc flt noon* J. 120 previous record was 92J degrees.