NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 143, 27 June 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, last night. The Hon. Hall-Jones left for Rotorua this morning for the benefit of his health. At a meeting of the executive of tho Auckland Reception Committee, tho secretary reported that the cost of the reception was £2135, of which the City Council's third was 41711. If this were paid it would leave a balance of .-£257. The Town Clerk said the Council would make a progress payment providing sufficient funds to pay accounts. Mr Goldie, ex-Mayor, said he supposed the Council was morally bound to pay a full third, but he suggested, in view of the large expenditure by tho Council, the Committee was not justified in taking the money. Others held that tho Council should pay a third. It was decided to leave consideration of the disposal of tho surplus until tho final adjustment of accounts. Masterton, last night. At the District Court, Emily Regan, of Featherston, was acquitted on a charge of perjury. Wellington, last night. During the Royal visit to Wellington the municipal trams carried 97,943 passengers, and ran 7000 car miles. The receipts were 42820, or £4OO above tho average winter week. Christchurch, last night. William Withell, a young man, aged 21, a painter, fell through a trap-door of a , building in course of demolition this morn- - ing, and sustained severe concussion of the brain. Ho was taken to the hospital 1 in an unconscious condition, and is not expected to recover. Nelson, last night. Sittings of tho Supreme Court were hold i to-day, before the Chief Justice. The only criminal case was that of Charles Watson, brought up for sentence-on a charge of ‘ indecently assaulting his own daughter. . He had pleaded guilty in the lower Court, and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. A decree nisi was granted in the divorce cases Beamslcy v. Bcamslcy and Jewett v. Jewett, both husbands’ petitions, on the ground of desertion. There was no appearance of respondent in either case. In his address to the Grand Jury His Honor made a few remarks on the jury system, defending it from recent attacks, and expressing dissent from those advocates of abolition of either tho grand or ? common juries. i? Tho volunteers and cadets reached , home from Christchurch this morning, after a good trip, all well.