DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3189, 7 April 1911, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

SEDDON TECHNICAL COLLEGE. (PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, April 6. At the monthly meeting of the Auckland Savings Bank trustees, the chairman (Air. J. J. Holland) moved that £IO,OOO be donated from the bank’s surplus funds towards the completion .of the" erection of the S'eddon Memorial Technical College. After discussion, it was resolved to defer further consideration of the matter.

A AIUNICIPAL LOAN. FOR BLENHEIAI. BLENHEIAI, April 6. A poll was held to-day on the question of raising a 'loan of £65,000 for the purpose of supplying Blenheim. with water and a drainage scheme. Great interest ivas taken in the poll, and loud cheering greeted the announcement of the result: For 526, against 390. The proposals were thus carried by 136 votes.

A COURAGEOUS RESCUE. TIMARU, Anri! 6. Air. Raines, chief; officer of the Cormna, gained great applause from onlookers for the smart and courageous way he assisted a. mail', who, after dark, fell off a railway truck into the water between the- ship and the wharf. Air. Kaines wentl down- a pile and palled the man out. There was great danger of the man being crushed. WEATHER IN SOUTH CANTERBURY. The little; rain that has fallen in this district, though not enough to benefit deep roots freshened the- grasses, and the country is now green*. A NEW OFFENCE. GORE, April 6.

At the Alagistrate’s Court this morning, James Jackson Alunro and Alary Ann Byron were each fined £3 and costs, on separate charges of keeping premises as a resort for the consumption of intoxicating liquor. The charges were laid under the new Act and are probably the first cases under section 37. .