NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 520, 17 September 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) NSW PLYMOUTH, last night. The insurance on the house on Smart road, destroyed on Monday morning, was £2OO, in the ltoyai. The loss above insurance is estimated at £l5O.

PATEA, last night. Valuable limestone deposits have been discovered a few miles from Patea. The quantity is large, and the quality is said to be of tiie best.. WELLINGTON, last night/- ' A cable message .was received by the, Acting-Minister of Defence yesterday that Captains Turkey and Potter and Lieutenant Spencer leave Sydney by the Mokoia on the 30th inst. ior Wellington, 'There arc -10 troopers and three nurse,s on the Athcnic, which left. Hobart on Saturday, At the Supreme Court,, Peter Jones, for breaking and entering, was sentenced to two years. Harvey John Reynolds for forging and littering, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, NOLSON, last night. The Nelson Sailing Club devotes, five years to a perpetual championship trophy, all boats starting from scratch. Prize money in addition, will be allocated. . ,

A meeting of the Nelson Cricket Association sanctioned the inclusion of two professionals in Lord Hawke’s team. Immediate steps will be taken to put the ground in order for the match. Welcome rain fell yesterday after a long drv spell, 1.25 inches falling. 'The Criminal session of the Supreme Court opened here this morning before .Judge Denniston. The calendar comprised eight cases of a miscellaneous nature—rape, indecent assault, breaking and entering, theft, perjury, three prisoners pleaded guilty in the Couit, below to breaking and entering. Maud Gyves, a young woman, was admitted to probation for six months on medical evidence that her periodic physical condition explained her conduct, A man named Kirk, /or the iheit of too s valued at, £l. was sentenced to eighteen months, an old offender, to two years 1 imprisonment..

OHKYMOUTH. last night. The Horouah Council the other night asked the Mayor to communicate with the Colonial Secretary to hate over one hundred Chinese corpses removed from the shed where they are stoied await ins shipment. In the discuss on it came out that .several bodies had never been interred and had been caided into the building without know|pd<re <it the sexton. Up to the end of August, twelve am a half million feet of sawn umber had been exported from Grey mouth, as aeainst nine and a halt million lor the corresponding eight months oi last year.