NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 414, 13 May 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. There was a slignt shock oi earthquake at Rotorua on Sunday at 10 . a.m. The Crown mines treated 2785 tons of ore for the month, whicn yielued £6320. The Eciipse, Tararu, crusned 376 tons for £448 ; the Hikutaia syndicate 500 tons for The slimes have yet to be treated^ PA TEA, last night, j Major Turner, a very old resident/ died yesterday, aged 80. He joined the 65th Regiment wiien a young man, and toqk part in the Maori war, tieing wounded at Mohoetuhi. He was afterwards in charge of constabulary and Magistrate at Patea. WANGANUI, last night. A fishmonger named Vidal, of Palmerston North, was fined £5 and costs at the Police Court this m/rning f or selling undersized flounders to local fishmongers. Seventy-five bundles were tent to Wanganui, not a single fi?h being nine-inches- In length. Denis Cronin, 74 years of age, who jumped from a bridge in ,4 a creek thirty feet below to escape an approaching train, died at the ho.-pital today. An inquest will be held WELLINGTON, last night. The executive of the New Zeaiand Alliance to-day received a cable stating that Mr Woolley, temperance advocate, is unable to come to the colony. Henry Fuller, a married man, wh6 was arrested on Saturday for drunkenness died in the police cells yesterday morning. An inquest will be held. iviichael Power, at present undergoing sentence for theft to-day, pleaded guilty to perjury in evidence given on his own behalf at the hearing of th? breviou.- case. He was remanded to the Supreme Court for sentence. The Commonwealth Post Office has advised the New Zealand Government . that it had definitely decided not to apply the uniform Australian terminal rates to messages between New Zealand and Australia sent via the Eastern Extension Company’s cable. This means all intercolonial cables sent from the colony via the Eastern Extension Company’s cable must pay a teiminal charge in Australia of a penny per word per State, as formerly. The acting-Premier has expressed to the Federal Government his regret at the decision, but states that the New Zealand terminal cnarge of a half-penny will be maintained. NELSON, last night. The death is recorded of Mr John Savage, a resident of Nelson for forty years. He was well-known in connection with some of the friendly societies, especially the Foresters. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. John Frederick Christopher Ridders, an old age pensioner, hanged himself to a bed-post in a private nursing home in Salisbury street this morning. He was suffering . from paralysis of the spine, and is supposed to have been mentally deranged. DUNEDIN, last night. After being a day over three months in the waters of the lower harbor, the body of Charles Brown, who with his brother-in-law (Arch-bald McCormack) was drowned in the lower harbor on February 10, was discovered when the Mararoa was steaming up from Port Chalmers yesterday forenoon. The directors of the Union St jamship Company have declared an inte rim dividend of four per cent, for the liair»-pear ended March 31st. WESTPORT, last night. The output of coal from the Westport Coal Company’s mines last wzck was 12.311 tons llcwt. The Admiralty’s chartered collier Heatliford sailed for Hong Kong via Wellington to-day with about 3000 tons of coal, including 9GO tons Newcastle coal as bunkers.