NEW ZEALAND

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 515, 30 August 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND

(By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, last night. At the annual meeting of the Thamos Gas Company, held to-day, the directors’ report showed a profit of £1369, which, after deduction of £499, paid in an interim dividend, left £B7O to be disposed of. A dividend is to be paid of Is 3d per share. The sum of £246 was carried forward. Napier, last night. At the inquest on Arthur Wellington, a fireman, killed by a truck running oyer him at Te Ante railway station, a verdict of accidental death was returned. Nono of the witnesses could state how the accident occurred, but it would appear that deceased slipped on the footboard of the engine. New Plymouth, last night. _ The first general meeting of creditors in J. N. Whitfield’s estate was held this morning. The bankrupt said he sold the business to tho Cash Trading Company for £3600, including stock, lease, etc. Tho Assignee said he had written to the Company asking, their intention regarding its liability to bankrupt, and they said they were considering the matter. Bankrupt thought he could offer 10s in the £ shortly, and the meeting was adjourned for a week.

Keeffcon. last night. A youug man named Castio was Gntangled in the bolt of machinery at the Wealth of Nations’ mine, and his arm and thigh fractured and badly bruised. Westport, last night. Griffiths’ flaxmill at Birchfield was partially destroyed by fire last night, the cause being a spark from an engine causing ignition of the tow. Wellington, last night. In the appeal case, Payne v. the Stipendiary Magistrate, which questioned the decision of the Stipendiary Magistrate in a ease of alleged Sunday trading, the Chief Justice gave judgment for appellant, on the ground that the Magistrate based his finding on an erroneous assumption. The City Engineer reported to the Council last night, disclosing that the dam of the Wainuiomata water supply reservoir is in a condition calling for attention. The concrete is of exceedingly poor quality, and in one place where the earth embankment was temporarily removed the water finds its way freely through a concrete wall ranging in thickness from eleven to fourteen inches.