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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3424, 16 January 1912, Page 5

A number of members of the United Football Club assembled last evening to make a presentation to Mr E. Luttrell. a well-known member of the Club, oh the eve of his marriage. The presenta. tion took the form of a silver-mounted oak tray suitably inscribed, and it was made by Mr C. Morse, one of the vicepresidents. Other prominent members of the Club made eulogistic references to Mr Luttrell. The recipient suitably acknowledged the gift. One of the simplest, and at the same time most successful types of fraud, has beei'i practised in Ghristcb ’.yc;: at least once during the last few t; ys. lb H. R. Smith, the Town Clerk, has: in his possession a gilded sixpence which was passed upon a municipal employee. The gilding is poor in quality, and appears to be the work of an amateur, or at least work done something less than skilfully- It was sufficiently good to deceive, however, and all will do well to beware lest similar tokens of some unknown person’s criminal intentions are left in their possession. Tremendous excitement has been caused throughout Alsace-Lorraine as a result of a shooting affray which occurred in Met-z. A German _ soldier named Marsch was shot and killed in the street by Alexander Samaine, one of the leaders of the. French party. Four of Samaine’s friends were with the murderer at the time, and they, together with Samaine and his brother, Save been arrested in connection with the crime. The trial of the accused is considered likely to have a momentous effect in fanning the hostile racial feelings, which have always been acute in the districts of Alsace-Lorraine. M. Samaine was the organiser of the French party, and it was he who orfanised the demonstration in Metz in anuary last, when the troops had to be called out to disperse the crowds who paraded the streets, singing the “Mar seillaise” and cheering for the Republic.

A loud explosion (says the “Waikato Times”), the cause of which is unknown, occurred in Hamilton East on Tuesday night, startling a number ot the residents, who went out of doors to seek the cause. Mr. A. T. Atkin declares that the report took place a little after midnight, and to him, in bed, sounded as though a big gun had been fired immediately over his new houseArising, be made an inspection of the building, both outside and in, hut found everything in order. The explosion is so far inexplicable, and seeing that a similar loud report occurred at midnight or New Year’s Eve, which was heard as far away as No. 1 bridge, it-would be interesting to know the origin. One theory is that someone is experimenting with dynamite, but midnight seems a rather "untimely hour for such an undertaking, unless carried out with snm ■- illicit object. It is thought by others that the noise was caused by sewer gas combustion, but inquiry at the gasworks next- morning tended to destroy this theory, while as the machinery at the waterworks on the opposite bank of tne river w'as not working, the noise could not have come from this souice.