NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 409, 7 May 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Komali Reefs mine crushed 83lioz of ore for £2053.

WAIHI, last night. Charles Fletcher, of K;uii:.v..i, wlu.c out shooting last night, was aecidni: shot by his nephew. ’I lie wound extended from the line.) _o the chin, and the greater part of tue charge penetrated into the chest and a.gs. The doctor is unable at pres;it tc extract the shot.

NAPIER, last night. The annual Conference of the National Council or Women of New Zealand will be open here to-night and continue for nine days. Among the subjects set down for discussion are the duty of

the state to children, treatment of disease, equal pay for equal work, ethics of wage earning, removal of disabilities of women. ,

Twenty-seven applications were received for the vacant headmastership of the Boys’ High School. Mr A. S. M. Poulson, who for a number of years has filled the position of second master has been chosen as the new headmaster He is a colonial by birth, being educated at the Otago High School and Otago University. PALMERSTON N., last night. Sergeant-Major Ramsey, who is retiring from the police force under the superannuation scheme, after forty years’ service, was presented this afternoon witli an illuminated address on behalf of the local Justices of Peace legal profession and townspeople. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. At the Magistrate’s Court this morn-

ing Louis Doyle pleaded guilty to forging the name of J. W. Proctor to a of shares in the Bank of New Zealand Zealand at Martoii on March 11. He was committed for sentence.

DUNEDIN, last night. In Brydone v. Lee, claim for £SOO in connection with the alleged transfer of shares in the Bank of New Z Inland Coal and Colliers’ Company, Judge Williams gave judgment for defendant, holding that his version of the transaction had most corroborative testi-

mony, The man who lost his life in the

er at Balclutha yesterday through

jumping to escape a passing train has been identified as William Wright, an old age pensioner, aged 70/ single, who fought in the Maori war. HAWERA, last night.

At the District Court to-day James Makin and Murphy, on charges of indecency, were admitted to probation. Robert Icell, for false pretences, was admitted to probation for twelve months, and ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution. Accused had followed racing, and in passing sentence the Judge said gambling had reached such a stage that many persons, and he heartily agreed with them, were of the opinion that the time had arrived when the totalisator should be abolished. In the case of Francis David McCusker,

indecent assault on a little girl of seven, a verdict of guilty was returned, and he was sentenced to five years and 25 lashes.