NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 418, 17 May 1902, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. The City Council have fixed the Mayor’s salary at £3OO. In a case against Thomas Thomas and Co., Christchurch, a claim of £25 for goods stolen from a trunk carried from Christchurch to Auckland by defendants, and stored by them for a fortnight, Mr Brabant, S.M., gave judgment Tor plaintiffs, holding the defendants to be common carriers until g the delivery of the goods, disregarding >r the contention by the defendants that they were only the warehousemen of goods while in the store. Charles Dench, formerly a purser on the Taviuni, and for many years with the Union Company, has died at Cambridge of consumption. The body is being sent to Dunedin by the Te Anau. WELLINGTON, last night. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day Edward Taylor pleaded guilty to forging a signature to a money order tele, gram. He was committed to the Supreme Court lor sentence. A breach of promise action brought jd by Mary Jane Richards agiinst Heri;ert Birch to .recover £5Ol damages is being heard by Judge Edwards and a jury to-day. Plaintiff swore she became engaged to defendant, at Manly, g 3 when on a visit to Sydney some years ago . He undertook he would marry in August, 1000, but afterwards postponed the event, and finally cooled ’rp off.

The Government are so satisfied with Hie experiment or employing shortsentence prisoners at tree-pianting in the Rotorua district that they have decided to increase the number of men. The system will he applied to one or two parts of the South Island when favorable opportunity occurs. The Acting-Premier will go to Westport to-night, and returns to Wellington on Thursday. , CHRISTCHURCH, last night. On Sunday, James Watson, -aged 41, was admitted to the hospital, and died on Tuesday.... The house surgeon gave a certificate of death from exhaustion, following on deiinmn tremens. Information of the death was conveyed to the police in (Lie course, and the Coioner gave instructions that an inquest should he held. The police found that the body nal been removed by the undertaker, and consequently it had to he seize! anl ta,ken Lick to th.. hospital, where an inquest was held, r. verd'ict being returned in accordance with the medic\l evidence. The Black I-lorse Hotel, on the Lincoln road, three miles from the city, -as burned down last nigaN The occupants had no time to save a*"thing. The insurance is not to narid

DUNEDIN, last night. Cadets are included in (he CoronaI'on muster of volunteers. The act-

•sig-Defence Minister says loci! parades are intended to he held in the cr untry districts, in lieu of bringing the men into the centres,