FEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 83, 16 April 1901, Page 1

FEW ZEALAND.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, last night. The Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club have decided to apply to have the next New Zealand championship meeting held in Auckland between December 21 and the new year. The Australasian championships are to be held at the centre appointed for the first-named gathering. The census of Grey Lynn Borough shows males 190-1, females 2202, total 4106, against 2385 in 189 G. Obituary : Mr Thomas Patton, a very old colonist, aged 85. He landed at the Bay of Islands in 1840. The body of William Alfred Wallace, missing from Waihi, was found in a creek near the main road.

Mr Holmes, the Royal Visit Commissioner, proceeds South to-day by the Rotoiti.

John Powell, aged 48, an inmate of the Asylum, hanged himself from a gas-pipe. He was committed for suicidal mania.

Mr Justice Conolly refused an application for the discharge of Ambrose Millar, a bankrupt merchant, though Oppenlieim and Herman, of Amsterdam, the principal creditors, approved. The total liabilities were '£9,450, and the assets realised £55. The estate has not yet paid any dividend, and Judge Conolly said it was a most extraordinary case. Debtor had been in business for seven years, and had paid Oppenheim and Herman thousands of pounds, yet had got into their debt £B,OOO. What he had done with the goods he received in these few years, it was noiy almost impossible to ascertain. The English and French creditors had not yet proved. The character of the case was very unsatisfactory. Wellington, last night. The Home Government have granted a pension of £6O a year to the widow and £l2 10s to each of the two children of Lieutenant Berry, of the Third Contingent. This, in addition to a similar amount granted by the New Zealand Government, makes a total of £l7O a year. Sentences were passed by the Chief Justice this morning upon the prisoners who had pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court. James Hart, for forgery, got 18 months’ had labor ; Robert Walker, for forgery, also 18 months.

The Chief Justice has suspended for two years the dischargo from bankruptcy of James Patterson, tailor of Stratford.

Mr David Porter, of the Land and Survey Department, one of the original Canterbury settlers, died suddenly last night. W. J. Hanlon, J. H. Wagg, andß. H. Johnston wero each fined £1 and £1 Is costs, besides 7s fare, for having travelled on the Wairarapa regular train on an excursion ticket. Burrell and Cate, the men oharged with burglary at Nathan and Co.’s, were before the Magistrate this -morning, and were remanded for a week. In the Bankruptcy Court tho discharges of A. J. Giddings and G. W. Smart were suspended for six and nine months respectively. Ihe bankruptcy of James Cheltham was annulled.

The report and balance-sheet to he submitted at the annual meeting of the Bank of New Zealand will, it is announced, show profits for the year just closed of about £50,000 more than last year’s. It is also stated that the whole of the assets can be shown to he profit-earning, with the immediate prospect of a substantial dividend being declared if the general prosperity of the country is continued for another year. Tho Wellington Railway Station was burglariously entered last night, and about £55 in cash stolen from a safe. The door was evidently opened with a skeleton-key, and a safe-key that had been kept on the premises was used.

Christchurch, last night. On Friday evening an elderly lady returning home from Papanui between 8 and 9 o’clock was robbed. As she was walking along a lonely road she was accosted by a man, who. demanded her purso, noticing a bright steel object in her hand, She complied, and her purse and jewellery, and even sleeve-links and a parcel of blouses she was carrying, were taken.

The Greenstone Greek Company reports a return of 3oz for the first wash-up on Saturday. Dunedin, last night. Councillors Dawson and Denniston and Mr C. R. Chapman have been nominated for the Mayoralty. Mr Thos. Mackenzie, M.H R., was elected Mayor of Eoslyn unopposed, The Union Company and Messrs Huddart-Parker Sad Company have decided, to issue specially reduced fares to members of Parliament and their families proceeding' to Australia to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Federal Parliament.

Councillors Muir, Scott, and Mr J. Braithwaite were returned unopposed for High street Ward. There are contests for all the other city wards. The Railway Appeal Board confirmed the departmental decision re the driver and fireman of the train which caused a collision at Port Chalmers on February 3rd.