NEW ZEALAND ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3264, 8 July 1911, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND ITEMS.

RE-APPOINTMENT TO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. IFEE PEESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, July 7. Sir G. M. O’Rourke’s reappointment to the Legislative Council is gazetted. TERRITOIIIAL SERVICE. A youth named William Cornish ivas convicted to-day by Mr Riddell, S.M., on a charge of failing to register for territorial service. Objection had been made on conscientious grounds. The Magistrate inflicted a fine of £4. CASE AGAINST LOCAL BODY. The Arbitration Court awarded the executors of the Avill of Alexander McHutchon £SOO compensation against the Castlepoint County Council, holding that Avlien McHutchon, who- Avas clerk and road < verseer under the Council, met with a fatal accident on the roaci while driving he was engaged in his ordinary employment as road inspector. OBITUARY. CHRISTCHURCH. July 7. XeAA's is to hand' of the death of Mr L. E. Selig. of Astoria, Oregon, United States, America, seooiid son of the late Rev. B. A. Selig, of Wellington. Deceased. avlio is a brother of Mr P. Selig, of this city, was attached for many years to the editorial staff of the Astoria Budget. THE DEBATABLE '“SQUARE.” F. R. Cooke, a Socialist orator, who was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment Avitli hard labor for the non-pay-ment of a fine imposed for a breach of the city by-law prohibiting public meetings in’ Cathedral Square, Avas released yesterday. Referring to his prison experiences, he expressed the opinion that Lyttelton gaol gives a man no possible chance of leform. It is, lie said, a place for crime, imbecility, and degeneracy. It would' break a man’s constitution up very quickly, and . would shako his reason. If a man goes in a criminal he will come out Avorse than when he went in. He adds that as far as the Lyttelton gaol is concerned, the reform effected by last session’s Act is infinitesimal. He intends -going to prison in regard to a further fine imposed on him for another breach of the same by-law. SIR JAMES! CARROLL. TIMARU, July 7. Sir James Carroll was present last evening at a social gi\ r en by Mr J. Craigie, M.P., to his election committee.

SLY-GROG CONVICTION. DUNEDIN, July 7. At the Police Court to-day, Charles Burner and Albert Payne, a fish shop keeper, of King street, were fined £25 for sly-grog selling. *