NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 431, 2 June 1902, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) A UCKLAND, .Saturday. Obituary : The Rev. W. K. Morgan, formerly vicar of St. Peter’s, Oneliujiga.

George Samuel Sammell, forwarding agent, died suddenly while examining agent, aged 70, died suddenly .while examining .some luggage. A girl named Pelley. aged 15, has been received into the hospital, suffering from an overdose of chiorodyn. She is believed to be out of danger, it is supposed to be a case of attempted suicide. The veterans form a guard of honor to the Governor on his departure from Auckland on Monday. TIMARU, Saturday. The South Canterbury branch of the Educational Institute decided to heartily support Mr Murray’s provident fund scheme, also the Otago .superannuation scheme.

DUX EI) IN, Saturday. In the Supreme Court the following cases have been disposed,of: Myers and Andrew Howard, for stealing £2 10s, Myers, not guilty, Howard two years ; Archibald Walker and .John Walker, paint stealing cases, eighteen months' hard labor on eacli count, sentences to he concurrent; Edward Myers, obtaining two gold rings by false pretences, two years’ hard ,abor. WANOANUI, Saturday. The Supreme Court concluded its sittings at noon to-day, when the jury in the civil case of Robert Cobh v Abraham and Williams, claim damages for selling the stock of plaintiff while holding a lien, answered issues against the plaintiff, and judgment was given for defendant, with costs. WELLINGTON, Saturday. The Mokoia, sailing for Sydney today, takes about 100 tons of cargo. The Cabinet lias decided to ask the Education Board to arrange for the saluting oi the llag by school children on the morning of Coronation Day. The Government have decided to supply souvenir cards of the Coronation to all State and private school children throughout the colony Tree of cost.

A SCANDALOUS CASE. AUCKLAND, Saturday. A Maori charged with selling beer at Te Awamutu without a license escaped on the plea that he had ordered live gallons of hop-beer from a brewer, who sent something stronger. He did not know better until the constable sampled it.

ISLAND NEWS. AUCKLAND, Saturday. The s.s. Hauroto, from Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga reports everything quiet at the islands. An epidemic of spinal meningitis at Nadroga, Fiji, caused Unity deaths of juveniles in a short .time. A severe earthquake shock was felt at Lauloko on April 3(1 tin

GOLDEN INDUCEMENTS, WELLINGTON, Saturday. The Imperial authorities have asucd the Government to furnish the names of experienced surveyors willing to un-

dertake survey work of mining areas on the West African Gold Coast. Those selected will he engaged for two years, and will work eight months each year and go on furlough to England during the rainy season, me imperial Government paying half their passage money. The salary offered is a handsome one.

IMPRESSIVE OBSEQUIES, AUCKLAND, Saturday*. The funeral of the late Queen of Tonga was most imposing. The coffin was carried to the grave under a canopy held by one hundred natives. The King followed in his Royal rones, also the British Consul, Mr Hunte, and the Prime Minister, Mr Sartac. The line of route was lined by college students. The service was read by native priests. The Revs. Watkins and Moulton spoke. The attendance of natives was small, owing to the unpopularity of the King’s choice of marriage amongst a section or the community.

THE SLIMES ROBBERY^ THAMES, Saturday,; To-day, Cyril Douglas Finn and James Edgar were committed to trial. Counsel for the defence expressed surprise at the absence of certain witnesses, and said the case presented was an extremely weak one, except for the fact of the possession of the slimes, Accused were committed to trial, and bail was allowed in £IOO and two sureties of £IOO each.