NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 405, 2 May 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, last night. The Hon. Mr Carroll arrived to-day, and left this afternoon for Rotorua to attend the presentation by the Governor of the flag sent by the Prince of Wales to the Maoris. Mr Ckrroll then proceeds to Turanga and Whakatane to address the Maoris on Native Land matters, and if time permits lie will visit the North. Three reserved decisions by the Arbitration Court in some Auckland cases heard four months ago have been delivered. In eacli case the employer is charged by the union with employing male machinists at less than tiie minimum wage. The Court held that the employers should have paid the minimum journeyman’s wage, and inflicted a fine of £5 and costs in two cases, and £2 10s and costs im tlie other case The award is a colonial-one.- - Arrived : Taieri, from Westport, at midnight, after a very stormy voyage. No damage was done. Signor Bragato, after a visit to the. Government vineyard at Wairangi says he is more than satisfied, and believes a very fine quality of sparkling wine will he produced. Fermentation is so complete and clean that it astonished him. Several changes that give winemakers a good deal of trouble in Europe and Australia were present in only infinitesimal quantity, from which he augurs most happy results of the culture.

Mr Napier, in a speech, complained of the delay in realisation of the Assets Board’s properties in the Waikato. I-Ie said he intended next session to make an effort to insist on the board transferring its properties to the state.

A Tonga letter of April sth says the body of the Queen of Tonga lies in state in the palace, and is to be interred next week at the Royal burying ground. She was the graud-daugliter of Lavinia, recognised as the greatest chief of Tonga, and was only 23 years old. She was married in 1899, and leaves one child, the Princess Salote, now two years old. DANNEVIRKE, last night. Mr A. L. Gordon was returned as mayor of Dannevirke, defeating Mr Drummond, the- retiring Mayor. WELLINGTON, last night. A Domestic Servants’ Union was formed last night. In the Magistrate's- Court to-day Henry Mitchell was convicted of the theft of bicycles, and admitted to six months probation. At the Supreme Court criminal sittings to-day Joseph Smith, for assault on his wife with an axe, was sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment, and Dennis Reiley, for assault, to four months.-

CHRISTCHURCH, lash night. Guard James Hudson fell off the iLyttelton-Christ-church train last night in the tunnel, and was found unconscious in a drain beside the rails, but soon afterwards recovered consciousness. His injuries are not dangerous. This is tiie second accident of the kind that lias occurred m the tunnel within a short space of time. The previous one was fatal. Wuzerah, an Indian, aged 60 years, who came to the colony with the Jate Sir Cancroft Wilson, and has resided ever since on the Cashmere estate, was found dead yesterday. Death was due to heart disease. Tiie Education Board recently appointed a special committee to enquire into tiie charges against James Mahoney, late headmaster of Prebbleton school. The committee report that the Prebbleton School Committee had made grave charges against- Mahony, wiio left the school on February 13 without giving the customary notice, and is believed to have left Canterbury The parents of children 'and others iiave been examined by the special committee, and it is alleged the teacher was guilty of grave improprieties. The committee are of the opinion that he. was quite unfit to teach, control or associate with children. The Board adopted the report, and are sending a copy of tiie evidence, together with a request that Mahony’s certificate be cancelled, to the {Minister of Education. OAMARU, last night. ’Hie Magistrate to-day gave his decision in a case in which a prohibited person was charged with entering a hotel in another licensing district. Mr Kettle dismissed the information, holding that the prohibition applies only to the district specified in the order. Sergeant King said another case was pending, and he would report the case to headquarters for instructions. An important point was involved, and possibly the police would seek a pronouncement from a higher Court. DUNEDIN, last night. News has been received that a man named John "Thomas was killed by the train near Gore railway station last evening. There are no particulars as to the cause'. The man was a stranger at Gore, apparently up in years, without- evidence of any means. q’hree Chinamen at- the Police Cpyirt were fined IDs and costs 50s each for smoking opium-. A case against another for concealing opium was dismissed.