NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 455, 26 June 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) AUUaEAinD, last, night. In the Police Court- a Maori named Ratema te - Mata was charged with bigamy, and with -making a lalse declaration to the Kegistrar. Counsel for the prosecution stated that a woman named Mere Matui had been married according to lull Maori custom to Molii te YVara in 1875. Mere .subsequently ran away with defendant, who married her before the Registrar at whether a Maori marriage was good in common law, counsel for the defence maintaining it was not Evidence is being heard to day. The Education Board, after considering the qualifications of the candidates -fo-r the position of director of the Technical School, referred the application of Mr George to the Chairman ol the London County Council. It was understood that a reply had been received by cable that the qualifications of Air George are entirely satisfactory, and he will probably be appointed. Mr George is at present head blaster of the Sutherland Technical Institute. He was trained in the Merchant Technical College, Bristol. He obtained first place on engineering side of the college, and was awarded an exhibition in 1891. From September 1893 to 1896 he was partly engage ber 1893 to 1846 he was partly engaged as a teacher, taking a special course in honors and physics at the Bristol University College. He is author of the book on “ Practical Organic Chemistry,” and . the inventor of several pieces of apparatus for illustrative purposes in, science classes. Mrs George holds diplomas under the National Union in Cookery, dressmaking, needlework, and laundry work* Private advice lias been received that the overdue steamer Hafis has arrived at Fremantle, and continues her voyage to Auckland to-morrow. WELLINGTON, last night.

The mails sent from Auckland by the Sonoma on the 7th inst arrived at San Francisco on the 22nd.

DUNEDIN, last night. Air T. Baker, in charge of the boarding establishment at the Boys’ High School, died suddenly last night. He was a well-known athlete in his younger days, and represented Canterbury in interprovincial cricket in the seventies. ... j i At tlie" Agricultural Conference the Chairman made reference to the King’s illness, and a proposal by Air Buckly that the Conference do not j approve of the Government Bill for taxing stallions was rejected by 17. to 7, At a meeting of the Otago Saddlers’ Harness,, and Collar-mabers’ Union it was unanimously resolved,: “ That this meeting expresses its entire confidence in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and 'its administrations, and moreover is of opinion that the statement made retpecting it in other parts of the colony is uncalled lor at the present time..” WESTPORT, last night

Three Lyell lads, Ankett (a telegraph messenger), his brother, and Dollimore, when on a shooting excursion, got lost in the bush, and werein by floods. When found by a search party they had bg.en three days without food.

The. gold dredges on the Buller river had an anxious time during-the recent flood, but all escaped without any ■damage. Every community on ( the West Coast celebrates the Coronation with an extensive programme.