NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 339, 13 February 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. At a meeting of the general committee in connection with the Prenrieff’s send-off it was resolved to defer action pending a public meeting called by the Mayor. The Congregational Union accounts show total receipts for Auckland £173 6s 7d, Canterbury £45 11 3d, Otago £133 10s 4d, Wellington £lsl ; total £853 4s 11 ; expenditure £856; credit halane, £2 JCs 2d. The sites fund show receipts£7lG, balance in hand£394. The accounts were considered setisfactory, and were adopted. The pastors’ provident fund had a credit of £1282. Complaint was made that the income of this fund was miserably poor. NAPIER, last night.

In the Supreme Court to-day Henry Edward?. ©ennett was found guilty, ai recommendation to mercy being made, for assault and robbery. Wm. Start, similarly, charged, was acquitted. Dennett was remanded for sentence. In the Supreme Court* George Cox, for theft of £95 from the post office, was admitted to two years’ probation. Koie Ama Bopiha, for indecent assault near Waipawa, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. Mita Benata Pura, for indecent assault near Mohaka, got one year’s imprisonment. Beferonce was made during the hearing of tho indecent assault case to the ignorance of Maoris to the English law, and on His Honor’s suggestion the Crown Prosecutor undertook to draw the attention of the Department of Justice to the expressed desire of Natives that all laws affecting them should be printed in Maori and circulated throughout the settlements. , , . , . Masterton, last night. A starling Bhot by an Opaki settler was full of bot-flies, proving that the insect post is the birds’ practical source of exisfcence. . . ... ■Wellington,' last night. George S. Styles was tried at the Supreme Court to-day on a charge ot firing a gun at his daughter. He was found guilty of common assault, and ordered to come up for sentenoe whon called upon, , . , . Nelson, last night.

The third of the season’s wool sales was hold yesterday, when but a small catalogue was submitted. Prices were on a par with the last sale’s rates. r Dunedin, last night. Father Cleary, editor of the Tablet, shortly leaves on a twelve months holiday. His friends have decided to make him a substantial testimonial in recognition of his services to the Catholic journal.