NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 146, 2 July 1901, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Auckland, last night. The fire inquest has been adjourned. Constable Luko Ma-c Donnell, who has been ailing some months, died ou Saturday,

Forty Austrians leave by the Mararoa, en routo to Now Caledonia, under engagement through the Austrian Consul. The men will be put on road work. More will leave shortly. Over 600 left this year.

Palmerston North, last night. A local stable proprietor named C. Cockery has been arrested to-day on a charge of horse-stealing.

Wellington, last night. Mary Reilly, a widow, aged 40, died suddenly yesterday. The Appeal Court opened this morning. All the Judges were present. Argument has begun in the case of the Commissioner of Trade and Customs v. B. Bell and Co., Limited, an appeal from tho decision of Judge Edwards.

Wellington, last night. Tho President of the Now Zealand Institute of Journalists has written to Sir Joseph Ward, thanking him and tho Government generally for the courtesy and kindness to the English journalists who visited the colony for tho purpose of reporting the Boyal tour. In the letter, he writes : “ That tho colony will be benefited in the future by being brought prominently before the readers of tho great English journals, I think, goes without saying.”

The Government have purchased one hundred acres two miles from Papanui from Sir Westby Percival for workmen’s lomes.

Dunedin, last night. Mr Miller, engineer on the Central Electric dredge, has lost the sight of one of his eyes through being struck by a pice of steel.

The gross takings at the Agricultural Show were T 790, as against L 632 3s in the previous year. Nearly 26,000 people attended.

Invercargill, last night. Exceptionally severe frosts have been experienced here. Old residents aver that they are the hardest known.