NEW ZEALAND

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 436, 7 June 1902, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND

(Per Press Association). AUCKLAiNJJ,- just night. Patrick hartley, a labourer, aged 64, married, recently examined by medical men on the supposition that lie was oi unsound njind, andy pronounced toj.'be sane, but committed to the Costly Home, was found dead on the railway crossing near Mount Eden station, his head smashed and both legs cut off. It is supposed he had gone to sleep on the crossing, which is under a bridge. A report that the total sdde iof a vessel has come ashore on the West Coast opposite I-lohorua, made by Maoris, is not confirmed. Later inquiries indicate that tiie supposition that the Konig Oscar 11. was wrecked was premature, though it has been ascertained that some kauri ditches are ashore. Steps are being taken to obtain further particulars. It is suggested that Government should have the matter placed beyond doubt. DANNEVIRKE, last night.

At the annual meeting-, of the Waipawa Licensing Bench yesterday a new license was granted for a house at Waipukurau, an hotel at Waipawa being closed to enable this to he done. Mr T. Wilford, on behalf of the objectors, intimated that lie would apply to the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari. An application for a new license in Dannevirke was refused. The Borough Council has decided to vote only £25 to the Coronation celebrations. > PALMERSTON N., last night. In response to representations the Minister of Lands lias promised to havq a report prepared as to the necessary protective works at the Oroua river, which threatens to overflow at Awahuri and the Oroua bridge. FEILDING, last night.

At the meeting ot the Borough Council last night it was decided to spend £SO on the Coronation celebrations,and also to set up a committee to consider the advisability of borrowing a sum of money with the object of securing the full subsidy on the money to be spent in the erection of a techn cal school or other public purpose. MASTERTON, last night. The Stipendiary Magistrate made strong comments at yesterday’s meeting of'the Licensing Committee re the prevalence of drunkenness in Masterton and the fact that forty-two prohibition orders were in existence in a small place like Masterton. The Magistrate suggested stricter supervision by the police. He referred to the'fact c publicans supplying intoxicated persons with liquor asj a cruel action and hostile to their own interests as business men. WELLINGTON, last night. The next sitting of the Appeal Court has been fixed for June 3(L The following have been appointed a Representation Commission for the North Island Messrs J. G. Giles, Wm. A, Richardson, J. W" A. Marchant, Jas. McKenzie, G. Muller ; Middle Island, Messrs N. Y. Wales, T. a. Weston, G. R. Roberts' Tlios. Humphries, Dav d Barron.

The Gazette announces that July 16 will be observed as Arbor Bay. Regulations for the examination of engineers, which come into force on Ist August, are gazetted. Tiie Women’s Christian Temperance Union carried a resolution regretting Mr Wooley’s inability to visit New Zealand, and assuring him of a hearty welcome when he revisits the colony. Arthur Miller, an employee at Hill’s brick-yard, had one of his arms dragged into the cog-wheels' of a machine yesterday, and pulled away from the socket. ' CHRISTCHURCH, last night. 'Hie acting-Premier informed a deputation from the Avon Road Board that he would asjk Dr. Mason to re-in-vestigate the question of the site of the permanent infectious diseases hospital for Canterbury health district, and would see that objections to the present site receive full consideration.

Sir Joseph Ward has received- the following cable from Major Pilcher, Capetown Lieutenant Smith, late of the Seventh, now of the Ninth, is well ; 3353 Wynn sailed by the Aurania on the 4th May ; 3602 Gabot, in Capetown, well. The acting-Premier informed Mr G. W. Russell, M.IT.R., to-day that a Bill would be introduced early next session indemnifying all local bodies for expenditure in connection with the Coronation celebrations. DUNEDIN, last night, Andrew Mercer, J.P., Mayor of Dunedin in 1874, died this morn ng. Deceased was an parly settler of Otago, having arrived in the Philip Laing in IS4B. The Waikare takes the Moura’s place on the South Sea trip, leaving Auckland on the 18th, owing to the large number of passengers.