NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 518, 15 September 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

By, Telegraph—Press Association— AUCKLAND, Saturdays .The fund for the Maori girls’ school has reached £4OOO including £llO3 from Auckland. Yesterday the Committee decided to calf for tenders next week. The school will probably open before next Match, with accommodation for thirty girls temporarily and sixty finally. The Government promise a capitation of £2O on thirty The Stephen’s jNativc Trust give the’ site and an annual subsidy of ','so. NAPIER, Saturday. In the Supreme Court, Anastasia, for pcrjur.t, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment. Ada Olsen, for concealment of birth, was admitted to probation for three months. John Culsham, for manslaughter, was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment.

NEW PLYMOUTH, Saturday, The condition of John Elliott, of Mokoenui, is extremely critical. Dr. Home after twelve hours’ night ride reached him on Friday morning, and performed an operation giving him some relief. There is a slight hope of his recovery. Another doctor from Hamilton was summoned on Friday, WELLINGTON, Saturday*. Yet another deputation of shopkeepers went to the Acting-Premier last evening, to protest against a proposal to compel shops to close at 13 p.m. Sir Joseph Ward said that he had come to the conclusion that the best course to pursue would he to let the shopkeepers decide the matter among themselves by a vote on the subject. A house owned, by Sir Walter Buller and occupied by Mr J. Collins, builder, was burned down last night. The insurance was £309 on the building, and £259 oil the furniture, all in the New Zealand Company. The cause of the fire is supposed to be the bursting of a lamp. Six hundred live sheep are being sent by the Monowai to-day to Sydney, and also one hundred carcases of frozen mutton,

'l'lie racehorse San I-'rau arrived in good condition this morning from Syd- | ney, NELSON, Saturday, Last evening the Mayor presented a handsome gift to Mr W. G. Murray, Commissioner of Crown Lands, on behalf of the people of Hokitika. The City Council has decided to give notice to all riparian residents in the Waitai to remove fences encroaching on what should lie a road, known as the Shakespeare Walk. Floods and gradual accretions have removed all definite tracks of the original road, and the river Ims eaten into private land. Now the issue of public versus private rights is to he tried. CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday, A young man named John Walters was charged at the Police Court this morning with attempting to commit rape on a young married woman early ■this morning. He was remanded until Tuesday. ' Bail was allowed, accused in £299, and two sureties of £IOO each.

OAMARU, Saturday. The railway station at Hampden was burglariously entered last night A clumsy hut ineffectual attempt was made to break open the safe by the u<e of a piece of railway rail. Tilings were a good deal disturbed, but nothing was; 'taken.