NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 350, 26 February 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. In the case of Ilenrv G. Smith v. Clarence Florence Smith, Mr Justice '•)• Williams made a decree for restitution of conjugal rights. Y BLENHEIM, last night. At the Police Court this morning John Hughes, an elderly man, and his daughter, Celia Anna, were char- >• ged with committing incest at Wanganui on or about September Ist, 1901. Accused were arrested on a warrant from Wanganui, and remanded to appear there. CHRISTCHURCH, last -night. At the Magistrate’s Court this morning, two boys named Alfred Skelton and Cecil Nieholl pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering the premises of George Shaw, draper, of Christchurch, and stealing therefrom goods valued at £5, besides two horse: stealing charges. They were committed for sentence at the Supreme Court on all three, charges. Yee Bow, a Chinese dealer, was charged with permitting opium smoking on his preThe case was dismissed. ASHBURTON, last night. Fifty nominations have been received for the coursing meeting to he held here in May next, namely 17 from Ashburton, 11 Oamaru, 7 Napier, 4 Timaru, 2 each Invercargill, Hastings, Akaroa, and Leeston, 1 each Kaitangata, Lawrence, and Peel Forest. DUNEDIN, last night. Thomas Barrett, aged 2-1, was convicted of receiving tools knowing them to have been stolen. He is at present undergoing a sentence or twelve months for housebreaking, and received three years, or two years in addition to his previous sentence. Alexander Stewart, aged 28, for assault and robbery, was sentenced to IS months’ hard labor; William McEwan, aged 21, for assault, 15 months’ hard labor. The Dunedin Presbytery this morning agreed to the appointment of the Rev. Mr Dutton as chaplain for the Ninth Contingent, and resolved also to fill the Caversham vacancy during his absence. HOKITIKA, last night. Captain Thomson, late Harbormaster at Okaritu for many years, died this morning after “a long and painful illness. ‘ . “ AUCKLAND, last night. An influential deputation waited on Sir Joseph Ward to-day, and urged < the importance of the early comple- 1 tion of the North Island main trunk line of railways. Sir Joseph Ward 1 expressed gratification at the evident 1 prosperity and progress in the North. He assured the deputation that such progress was not in any way looked upon jealously from the South, the feeling being that a gain to one part of the colony was a gain to the colony as a whole. He assured the deputation that the trunk railway would he completed within the time to which the Government were pledged. What he had seen during his Northern tour had convinced more than ever of the necessity of that line being pushed on vigorously. He hoped also to see the Waipara-Blenheim line completed, and a fast ferry service across CookStraits.