NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 496, 7 August 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

By Telegraph—Press Association,

Auckland, last night.

At an inquest on the body of an infant found at the roar of the Prince of Wales’ Hotel yesterday, a verdict was returned of manslaughter against some person or persons unknown. The statue to bo erected in Albert Park as a memorial to tho fallen troopers of the Fifth Contingent will take the form of a life-sized New Zealand troopor, mounted on a pedestal, which will serve as a drinking fountain. Tho figure is of marble, and is now on its way from England.

John Howard, a roturned trooper, has been arrested on a oharge of passing a valueless cheque for £3 10s and uttering a cheque for £4 5s at Stratford and Eltham respectively, early in the present year. He was remanded to New Plymouth. The troopship Britannic sailed to-day for Sydney and Bombay. The Tairua Broken Hills mine crushed 500 tons of ore for /2420. The Wellington footballers arrived today, and wero welcomed by tho Rugby Union officials. Christchurch, last night. In tho Supreme Court this morning Richard Williams was found guilty of breaking, entering, and stealing from a house at Studholme Junction, and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Alexander King, for burning down two hay stacks at Templeton, on July 25th, received 12 months. The criminal sessions have concluded. Greymouth, last night. The gold dredging returns of last week will be a record for the Coast. The Greymouth Harbor Board has decided to go in for dredging river work on Coal Creek. AVellington, last night. At a conference of Unionists last evening resolutions were passed appointing a committee to enquire into and report on the boycotting of Unionists by employers, and recommending that Stipendiary Magistrates be given power to adjudicate in cases of breaches of award ; also that jhe Act be amended to provide in the case of dismissal of an employee that the onus of proving that he was not dismissed because he was a Unionist be placed on the employer. Judgment was given this morning for defendant in the action of Somerville v. Tancred. The case arose out of the will of the late Sir Thomas Tancred. Evidence was taken some days ago. In the Supreme Court Charles Dunstan was found guilty of the theft of a bicycle. Sentence was deferred.

At the annual meeting of the Meat Export Company to-day the chairman, Mr Buchanan, said the latest statistics of the frozen meat trade for the whole colony were decidedly encouraging. There had been a very large increase all round. After paying an S per cent, dividend the Company carried forward £10,228.