NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 370, 20 March 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night., The Liberal and Labour Federation presented Mrs Seddon through the Premier, with a handsome gold bracelet studded with sapphires and aiaMcFarlane of the Union Company, son o£ a former, liarbol “" master of Port Chalmers, has been appointed engineer in charge of the cai liope Dock. , ~ . The Premier proceeds from Auckland to Cambridge to morrow, where lie is to give an address at .the reunion oi Waikato farmers. . . . . WELLINGTON, last night. In the Appeal Court, the New Plymouth licensing case is still being argued. Counsel for the respondent 'is elaborating the points submitted yes. terday. A further point has been raised,' whether appellant Fretney s entitled to apply for a writ of certiorari at all without joining the At-torney-General, he not being a resident in the neighbourhood of the pai ticular premises. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. Samuel Forsyth, senior guard, fell off the Lyttleton-Chrislchurch tram in the tunnel last night, and received a fatal injury. He died soon after midnlThe certificate of an old age pensioner, named William Shaw was cancelled this morning. It appeals tin Shaw’s wife was entitled to £--T 111 the Savings Bank and £4O on mortgage which had not been disclosed, life Deputy Registrar of Pensions stated lie had been instructed to pro ceed criminally against Shaw The Education Board have decide not to keep the position of teachers who are accepted to goasteache to the refuge camps in South Afri :a. The Board adopted an inclde " tal lowance scale, providing for the ex penditure of £5958, as compared wiUi £6579 last year, provided the Depart ment makes provision for certain vices totalling about £IOOO The highest scorer for the. Govern ment medals for rifle shooting was Corporal A. J. Bentley, who made an aggregate of ld |j NEDINj i as t night. The young woman whose body was found if the harbor has been MenUiied as Agnes Kinsey. Her mother lives at Kaitangata. Deceased was formerly an inmate of the Salvation Army Home.