NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 21, 26 January 1901, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

THE COLCHESTER MURDER. RETURNED TROOPERS. [By Telegraph—Press Association.] " Wellington, last night. The c haufPion yacht Rainbow will not return to Auckland, haring been purchased by Mr C. Mills, rear-commodore ot the Port "Nicholson Yacht Club. The Premier is expected to reech the Bluff at the end of next week. All the Railway Workshop men throughout the colony are to receive pay during the three days the shops are closed. Alother railway men. now at work will rel ceive three day's’ holiday when they can be spared. „■ ~ .. Messrs Skerrett and Wiley, solicitors for Lillywhite, who is in custody on suspicion of being Blatch, the man chargea with the Colchester murder, have received, letters from the Chief of Police atTacomaf Washington (U.S.), enclosing statements from reputable citizens identifying the portrait of prisoner sent to him as that of Lillywhite, who they assert was resident at Tacoma from IS9B to some time in 1894, when he left for New Zealand. The letter states that a number of Tacoma citizens have identified the photograph as being that of Lillywhite, whom they knew well as a painter and decorator. A statement is enclosed from F. C. Clarke, whom the Chief of Police warrants to be a reputable citizen, and who says Lillywhite was never beyond his reach from 1889 to July, 1894, "when he saw him off by steamer to New Zealand. The murder occurred in December, 1893. Thu Chief states it would be easy’ to get affidavits of identification from a number of reputable citizens. ■ A portrait of Lillywhite in a trades union group is also sent. Mr Skerrett says it has been conceded that i the documents found in the accused man’s possession were his property, he could not possibly be Blatch. This question, ho claims, is now set at rest by’ this correspondence. The following troopers who returned to-day by’ the Orient have been appointed acting lieutenants in the Sixth, subject to the appointment being confirmed by the Imperial authorities at the front: Corporals Morrison, McDonald, Mitchell, Privates Wood, Wallis, and Blinkhorn. Captain Smith, of the Raglan Mounted Rifles, who came into camp expecting to get a commission in the Sixth, is not going to South Africa.

Dunedin, last night.

(hying to a chest complaint, the Kov. A, Gordon, who came out from England a few weeks ago to take charge of the Baptist Church in Hanover street, has been compelled to resign the pastorate. Isabel Robertson, of Auckland, takes first prize in the University Junior Scholarship examination. The Otago Education Board will bo represented at the Inspectors’ Conference at Wellington by Messrs Goyon, Fitzgerald, Richardson, and Bossenkc. Among other subjects that will occupy the attention of the Conference will be that of secondary’ education in district high schools,