NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 314, 15 January 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Wellington, last night,

The Governor has remitted the remainder of tho sentence passed on William Graham, triad at New Plymouth in September, 1900, and convicted of indecent assault. The remission took effect as from Now year’s Day. With a' view to stimulating traffic between New. Zealand and Australia, the freight rates on bran and oats to Melbourne and Sydney have been reduced to 10s and 12s per ton respectively. Christchurch, last night.

William B. Payton, a middle-aged man, pleaded to making a false entry when registering the birth and death of an illegitimate child born in his house. He represented himself and his wife as father and mother of tho child, on tho ground that they intended to adopt it. He was remanded to the Supreme Court for sentence. John Short, for discharging a revolver on Park terrace on January Bth, was lined £o, or a month’s imprisonment.

Dunedin, last night.

Tho Presbytery, on the motion of the Rev. K. R. M. Sutherland, seconded by Mr E. B. Cargill, unanimously resolved that the Presbytery have no sympathy with tho veiled but unmistakeable proBoorism of the acting-editor of the Outlook, and express deep regret that he should use his position to write what he must have known would have been an offence to his readers and would misrepresent the churches whose organ the Outlook is.

Hokitika, last night.

-Mr Boguo, in company with the Engi-neer-in-Chief, inspected the proposed sites of the railway bridge across the Hokitika river for tho Ross fine yesterday. A meeting of citizens has arranged an elaborate reception to the visiting fire brigade delegates next March, including a pyrotechnic display, church parade, banquet, ball, aquatic and driving excursions.

Efforts are being made to have a poll taken with a view to giving tho town an ado junto water supply, presumably from Lake Kanieri.