NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 144, 29 June 1901, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

Bv Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, last night. The Tramway Company has accepted AloLean and Sons’ tender for .£17,433 for tho construction of the first line, Sjmiles in length. The Council’s engineer reported that the . work had not progressed as provided in the deed of delegation. The City Council has received a claim of £4OO for compensation from tho father of William Smythe, killed at Nihotapu. Deceased was covered by an employee’s accident policy. A deputation from tho citizens’ meeting mot tho Alayor and Chairman of the Eire Brigades’ Committee and discussed the proposed improvement of fire appliances. The meeting adjourned for threo weeks pending a report from Air Hugo, the Wellington Superintendent. Wanganui, last night. Judge Edwards this morning reversed the decision of Mr Kenny, S.M., on tho appeal of Faber, licensee of tho Rutland Hotel, convicted of allowing drunkenness on liis premises. The Judge hold that it was not permitting drunkenness to allow a drunken person to remain on licensed premises so as to let him recover, and stated that it was impossible to define drunkenness. Drink affected persons differently. Some wore drunk in their heads, others in their legs. The appeal was allowed, without costs. A Maori girl, aged 14, died on Tuesday at a Native settlement 15 miles from Wanganui as a result of burns. She was warming heself at a fire at Kanangaroa School. Her clothes caught lire, and she ran outside, followed by tho teacher and others. Before the fire was put out nearly all her clothes wore burnt off, and her body was burned all over. She died several hours after from tho result of tho shock. The Acclimatisation Society passed a resolution that tho North Island is too closely settled for successful introduction of the imported animals and birds the Government proposed introducing. Wellington, last night. Jacob Joseph was fined £3O by the Magistrate this morning for failing to keep down rabbits on his run at Happy Valley. Christchurch, last night. Patrick Shea, who pleaded guilty to a chargo of forgery, was sentenced to eighteen months, and William Whitehead to six months for fraudulently altering a cheque, by Mr Justice Denniston this morning. Dunedin, last night., Over 8000 people. attended the Winter Show yesterday, constituting a record. Between six and seven hundred pounds was taken at the children’s demonstration. T. H. Hodge, master mariner, aged 67, of Port Chalmers, fell down an embankment about 00 feet deep at half-past 7 on Thursday evening, and was killed. Deceased w— on his way home. The track was very narrow, and he slipped in the dark. William Shepherd was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for indecent assault. Ernest Sime, who pleaded guilty to theft from a drapery establishment where he was employed,' did not appear, but will probably come up later in the day.