NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 426, 27 May 1902, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. At Paerata, near Pukekohe, a youn: h'.uy named ContiPll went i» a ne.gb hour’s on Saturday for milk, taking a gun to shoot rabbits. As she did not return, a search was made,, and she was found dead, shot through the

heart. Ob t-uary : Mrs Mary Hamer, aged 81, the widow of the Rev. T. Hamer, and mother of Mr Tom flamer, secretary to the Premier. O’. ]•;. s. Gillies won the championship of the Auckland Golf Club, defeating Harry G'iHies easily. The Governor and I.ady Raniurly leave by the Tutanekai for Wellington on Monday. I-I. Mann, photographer, whilst taking the photograph of a woman in the tigers’ cage at Worth’s Circus, suddenly fell back, and was dead when picked up- Heart disease is supposed to he the cause. . , " MASTERTON, last night

Tn court this morning the Magistrate Mr .James, commented severely on the abominable language which was in evidence at the football match on Saturday. He himself had spoken to one offender. Unless such conduct was put down with a strong hand, respectable people would discountenance the game. A constable will in future attend the matches. . , STRATFORD, last night, •\t a meeting of the Borough Council on Saturday night it was resolved to erect a permanent memorial of the Coronation in the form of a combined band rotunda, drinking fountain, and lire bell tower, the cost to be about £3OO. , , The Council also decided to bring under the notice of the Underwriters’ Association the near completion of a high-pressure water supply and improved (ire prevention appliance, claiming a reduction of insurance rates. WANGANUI, last night.

The Supreme Court sessions commenced this morning. There are only four criminal cases, two of incest, one robbery of a drunken person, and live breaches of the bankruptcy act against one individual. Several civil and divoice cases will also be taken, in his charge to the Grand Jury the Chief justice remarked that he could not congratulate the district on the cessation of crime, as the lower Court records showed an increase, and cases were now dealt with there which previously came before the Supreme Court. Reference was made to several cases before the Court indirectly through drunkenness, and to the tact that ' there were 88 • convictions for drunkenness and Hi prohibition orders had been issued in the district during the past five months. A lad named Skelton, aged U, already serving a sentence for horse-stealing, was ordered to come up for sentence on a similar charge, to which lie pleaded guilty in the lower Court. A Maori serving ,18 months for false pretences received six months additional for perjury. 'I lie incest case is proceeding. WELLINGTON, last night.

'Hie Roman Catholic Archbishop and Bishop of New Zealand arc issuing a circular enjoining that in all churches a solemn Te Deum of thanksgiving and invocation be sung or recited on Coronation Day and on the following Sunday. About forty cattlemen and stablemen from the transport Anglo-Cana-dian (Austrians, Italians, and Montenegrins), arrested at the captain’s instance for disobedience of orders, appeared at the Magistrate’s Court today. Special precautions were taken to prevent their escape from custody in view of the Immigration Restriction law. The captain stated ttiat tile men had asked for their discharge here, but the law would not allow it. The case was still proceeding this afternoon.

The Arbitration Court delivered its award to-day respecting the Wellington grocery trade. It fixed the hours of employees in towns at 53 per week, employers to have the right to require ’assistants to come back to work two hours on one night in the month from January to November inclusive, and three nights per week for three weeks before Christmas, all over this to lie a fixed overtime scale ; employment to be weeklv, without deduction Tor prescribed holidays. The Court stated that to classify assistants would be in a large number of instances detrimental to both employers and employees. It had, therefore, provided minimum wages (£2 ss) for assistants over 23 years generally, and the rate for those occupying positions of higher responsibility than the general assistants must lie left to the employer and the particular employee. The rate for employees of other ages was fixed as follows:—15 to 16 years, 10s per week ; 16 to 17, 15s ; 17 to 18, 20s ; 18 to 19, 25s ; 19 to 20, 30s; 20 to 20, 355; 21 to 22, -10 s; 22 to 23, -12 s. Carters employed as- such, if 23 or over, £2 ss, and if driving two horses £2 10s; under 23, the same rates as assistants ; an assistant required, as part of his regular duty, to drive a two-horse vehicle, to be paid a minimum of £3 10s, whatever his age. The Court declined to limit the number of hands employed in a shop, but thought the scale of wages it laid down would prevent abuses. Preference to Unionists was granted as regards assistants over 23 years of age.. CHRISTCHURCH, last night.

A middle-aged man named David McKeown was charged at the Police Court this morning with shooting at Walter E. Rose with a revolver. He was remanded till Tuesday, bail being refused. OAMARU, last, night. At St. Paul’s (Presbyterian), Wesleyan, Baptist and Church of Christ Churches yesterday resolutions against the granting of a license to sell liquor at Pipiriki, on the Wanganui river, against the clearly-expressed wishes of the Maoris of that district, were carried unanimously, and each congregation rose by way of protest. DUNEDIN, last night. The case of Henry Guthrie, shipowner, against Solomon Bryant, master of the barque Onyx, for £IOO damages for delay caused by alleged negli- ■ gence, was decided by Mr Carcw, S.M. this morning, who gave judgment for plaintiff for £lB, bolding that, two lays’ delay had been caused by defendant. Defendant had lodged a counter claim for £B3 11s for wages ana disbursements, which plaintiff refused to pay on the grounds that the owner was entitled' to deduct the master’s wages for negligence. Mr Carcw gave judgment for the amount, holding the defendant had not been guilty of such gross negligence as would forfeit bis wages. At the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court, His Honor, in charging the Grand Jury, said the calendarcomprised cases which commonly came before the Court on these occasions. There was nothing exceptional, but lie dealt at length with the case in which Sweeney was charged with the murder of a woman, whose body was found in a house after a fire at Allanton. Emilv Davis, a mere girl, for theft from'a dwelling, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. John Ashton for theft, was ordered to stand down pending the police making enquiries in Australia. William Andrews, charged with assaulting a girl under lfi years, was not in a fit state to plead, and the Judge directed that lie be taken away and brought up- later on. Captain MacDonald, of the Otago section of the Ninth Contingent, has been appointed to the command of the Coronation Contingent.