NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 505, 19 August 1902, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

Ey Telegraph—Press Association. Invercargill, last night. In the Commercial Club ease Arthur Plank, the steward, was fined Is and costs for selling liquor without a charter or license. His Worship said the fine was nominal, as he regarded the case as a test one. Two young men, for inoiestiug a girl in the street, were fined XlO and ATo each. Christchurch, last night. A young man named David White, re- I siding at Halkett, died whilst being removed to Christchurch Hospital to undergo treatment for consumption. An open-air meeting, conducted under the auspices of the Anti-Gambling League, was held in Cathedral Square on Saturday night, Eishop Julius presiding. Several speakers denounced the totalisator as a curse. It was decided to send a copy oi the following resolution to the ActingPremier : “Conoi.Lring the large increase of gambling, and in the interests of public morality, tins meeting urges upon the Government the necessity of abolishing the totalisator.” Westport, last night. Tiie Westport Club won the ii-.'ilc-i football championship, live teams competing. Stratford, last night. The threo-year-old daughter of Join l’errott was terribly burned this morning She was left in the house while he: mother went to milk. An elder brother playing with matches, set fire to he clothes, which wore burned complete! oil. There is small chance of be:

recovery. Wellington, last night. In the case of Thomas Daniel, who committed suicido owing to scarcity of work, the Coroner’s jury returned a verdict of suicide while in a stuto of unsound mind. The steamer Norfolk left Brisbane on Friday and procoeds to I’icton, where she takes in HOOO carcases of mutton, 750 quarters of beef, and a quantity of potatoes. She afterwards proceeds to Lyttelton. Moro frozen meat, etc., will be shipped there, after which the vessel goes to the Bluff to complete her cargo for South Africa. A difficulty is said to be

experienced in securing cargo, When Francis Thomas Moore, who pleaded guilty to writing a letter threatening to kill or do grievous bodily harm to the Acting-Premier, came before the Supremo Court this morning for sentence, Judge Edwards drew attention to the fact that the plea was not endorsed on the information in the prescribed form, lie declined to deal with the case until the omission had been remedied by the Magistrate. Tho Wellington College closed to-day for the holidays, three weeks earlier than usual, owing to several cases of scarlet fever at the College.

In tho Divorce Court decrees nisi were granted in the case of Samuel James Carman and Mary Ann Carman, for desertion, and Annio McFarlano and Huge McFarlano, for cruelty.