DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3406, 22 December 1911, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

—; WANGANUI FREEZING WORKS DIRECTORATE. Lper tress association.! WANGANUI, Dee. 21. As an outcome of the shareholders’ dissatisfaction, the board of diretcors of the Wanganui Freezing Company recently resigned. All, /''with two exceptions, again offered their services at the election yesterday. This resulted in the return of the old board, with the addition of Messrs C. L. Duigan and R. E. Beckett. WELLINGTON, Dec. 21. The Maori liquor vote m Wairoa (Dargaville) resulted: For continuance 250; for no liquor, 128. A “DISCOVERY.” FEILDING, Dec. 21. The system of paying teachers’ salaries just discovered by the Wellington Education Board has been in force in flic Wanganui Education District for years. OLD AGE PENSIONS. , WELLINGTON, Dec. 21. Sir Joseph Ward, who is in charge of the Old Age Pensions Department, has notified the Commissioner that January old age pensions are to he paid on Friday 29tli and Saturday '3ot insts. ALLEGED THEFT. WELLINGTON, Dec. 21. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day Isabella Harrington, alias Bain, was charged with theft of £l2O from Geo. Barrett. In connection with the same offence Henry Hiklitch was charged with receiving the sum of £97 Is 9d, the property of Geo. Barrett, well knowing it to have been stolen. Each accused pleaded guilty. They were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. A CASE OF ASSAULT. WELLINGTON, Dec. 21. At the Levin courthouse? a flaxnuU hand named Charles Olsen was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for assaulting Edward Hurley, who hau, on a previous date, assisted a constable to arrest Olsen for drunkenness. TJie evidence showed that the constable called on Hurley to assist, also that three or four other mil! ha mite were “'going to deal it to him the same.” A PALMERSTON LOAN. PALMERSTON N., Dec. 21. Borough ” loans, £BOOO for various street and other works, and 1 £4550 for sewerage extension, were carried to-day by 19 and 52 respectively. MILITARY TOURNAMENT. Very fine entries are being received for the grand military tournament on' December 30th to January Ist. There are already fourteen mounted teams entered from regiments ranging from Bluff to Whangarei, and 37 entries for infantry events and route marching generally' which constitute a record.