NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 338, 12 February 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Commissioner and Mrs McKie, appointed by General Booth to the command of the Australian wing of the Salvation Army, which includes lea-

dership of the work in New Zealand, arrived by the Mararoa to conduct revival meetings in the leading cities, commencing at Auckland and terminating at Invercargill. The Commissioner will thoroughly inspect the various social institutions and hold councils with officers and soldiers of the organisation. He is accompanied by Colonel Peart, chief secretary for Aus-

tralasia, Brigadier Kyle, secretary ol the social work, and Major Etherington, editor of the Australian War Cry.

In the Arbitration Court, J. R. Knight, saddler, was fined £3 and costs for breach ol an award in employing two boys to one man. NAPIER, last night.

In the Supreme Court, in the case of William Wood, for indecently assaulting his stepdaughter of five years, evidence as to character and honesty was called, but Judge Edwards said, under the revolting circumstances, that

he would not be doing his duty if he allowed himself to be influenced by such questions. WELLINGTON, last night.

The damage by fire to ‘Benjamin’s warehouse was confined to the upper story, but the stock suffered a good deal from water. The insurances on the stock aie :—Victoria, Commercial Union, Royal, New Zealand, Manchester, London and Lancashire, "the Law Union and Crown, Liverpool and London and Globe, ,-£100(1 each ; National, United, and South British, £SOO each; total, £9SUU. The building was insured in the Guardian for £IOOO, Victoria £SOO. Royal £SOO, North British and Mercantile £I4OO. Liverpool and London and Globe £ISOO, total £4900. On the electrical installation and fittings the London and Lancashire had a line of £l5O.

The results of the Field Battery Volunteers’ practice for .1901-2 are as follows : D Battery, Wellington, 70 points out of a possible 80 ; E Battery, Christchurch, 49 points ; H Battery ,N elson, 35 ; A Battery, Auckland, 33 ; B Battery, 38. The British mails of January 25th left San Francisco for Auckland at,

midday on the 9th inst., three days late,

The Hon. Mr Cadrnan, M.L.C., and Mr E, M, Smith, M.H.R., the Taranaki ironsand missioners, returned by the Karamea from England this day. Mr Cadman’s return was necessitated partly by considerations of health and partly from the fact that he had some urgent business to attend to in i,he colony. He will go back in a month or six' weeks to arrange finally for floating the company for working the ironsand deposits. Mr Cadman is sanguine of the success of his venture. New Zealand’s credit stands low on the London market just now, chiefly, he thinks, through the effects of the mining collapse and the machinations of disappointed debenture holders of the Midland Railway Company. Two thorough-bred stallions arrived by the Karamea, via San Francisco, for Mr L. D. Nathan, Auckland, and Birkenhead, for the Hon. J. D. Ormond, of Hawke’s Bay. Both were landed in good condition. NELSON, last night. A four vear old girl named Howard fell into a post hole in a paddock an Brightwater yesterday, and broke her n6C?l£l CHRISTCHURCH, last night.

In the Magistrate’s Court this morning James Raid and Theodore Harwood were committed to trial at the Supreme Court on a charge of forgery of a cheque for £9 13s 9d at Taitapu. Daniel Joseph McGuire and James Reid were committed to trial on charges of forging two cheques of £9 ios and £o IBs at Wellington. At the Supreme Court, Valentine Kiesanowski, an old man, a German Pole, indicted on a charge of setting fire to his house at Marshalls on December 25, was acquitted. An indictment against a young man named Vivian Marriott, indecent assault on a child,' is being heard. This will conclude the session. DUNEDIN, last night. The Council of the Churches held a ueneral meeting last evening. The Chairman, the Rev. J. J. Lewis, expressed, amidst applaqse, what he believed to be the overwhelming feeling of the Council that righteousness was on Great Britain’s sine in the war. Their duty was to defend the soldiers honor. His conviction was that the men upheld the best traditions of their fathers. The Council proposes to obtain Bible reading in schools, abolition of the totalizator, and advonce of the temperance cause at the next general election.