NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 484, 25 July 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night

A Maori named Ilemi Omukitc, at Wajngoro, filled a lead pipe with gunpowder and applied a light- to the pipe, 'flic pipe rebounded and struck his forehead, killing him instantly. HAWKRA. last night. While * hunting with the EgmoutWanganui Hunt Club hounds yesterday W. CL White, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, came down after his horse had negotiated a jump.; He sustained somewhat serious injury, one arm being badly smashed at the elbow. WELLINGTON, last night-: Mr Herron’s cabinetmaker’s workshop was gutted by lire at midnight. The insurances are ’£2oo on the machinery and stock -in the South British, and £2OO on the building in Inc Manchester, I The local honorary; secretary's return of the iVeterans’ Home Fund an- | nounces .that the subscriptions to dale amount to’£G7!) 13s lid, DUNEDIN'" last night. The Queen's statue is lieing executed by W. Hampton, and will cost £2250. The Hon. Richard Oliver says it wiil be cue of the finest representations of Queen Victoria in any part of the Empire. John Laffey was lined £3 and costs 21s for failing to stamp a receipt for the sum of £3O Gs Sd. The Evening Star has given £3O to the Otago University, and has also opened a subscription list, and has icseivgd £l5O within a week,-