NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 525, 23 September 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night The little girl Nereida Moses, who was accidentally given a poisonous powder on Saturday, in mistake for liquorice powder, is now out. of danger. The safe at Page’s store, Kingslaml. was dynamited early yesterday morning, presumably by the gai:g who have broken other safes of .'ale round Auckland. Mr Page was sleeping on the premises, and was awakened by a muffled report He disturbed the burglars before the safe cas successfully opened, hut they mad: their escape.

NAPIER, last, night. A church parade of friemly societies was held yesterday morniig, upwards of 300 persons taking part. DANNEVIRKE, list night A man named Frederick (biller, aged 52, lost his life in a lire at Maliarahara last night. Decease! was slaying temporarily at the aul, wnich caught (ire, ami this morning his remains were found among lie debris. FEILDING, last night,

In the various local (.'lurches last night, Bible teaching in liie .Stale schools was strongly advecated. A public meeting will be held 10-night to further the object.

WELLINGTON, iist night. In a majority of the city churches yesterday special sermons it favour of bible reading in schools were provided. David Barry, 70 years of age, a well known schoolmaster, was found dead in a bath in his house, ~ower Hutt. lie had laecn suffering from influenza. Death is considered to he due to heart disease.

A large quantity of produce was taken by the Monowai for Sydney and Brisbane, 'including 210 bales of tow, 207 boxes of butter from Wellington, 20!) boxes of (butter from New Plymouth, 380 sacks of potatoes, 209 sacks of oats and barley, 72 sacks of peas from Lyttleton, 1505 sacks of oats, 1003 sacks of ,potatoes, 200 boxes of butter, and 443 sacks of barley from Dunedin and Bluff. NELSON, last night.

it is understood on undoubted authority that Mr A,. I’. fdaginfly, the well-known solicitor, definitely intends to contest the Motucka .seat in opposition to Mr R. McKenzie, the present member, as an independent. TIMARU, Saturday.

The Canterbury Industrial Union of Workers officially advise shearers not to accept engagements with UF' Sheepowners Union, as an award from the Court is expected before shearing starts.

DUNEDIN, last, night. A fire occurred in the Colonial Bank yesterday. It started in the exchange rooms, but, owing to the prompt action of the caretaker the llames were kept under without much trouble till tlu> arrival ot the brigade, The damage will not exceed £IOO. In the Supreme Court an -tetion was commenced claiming £2OO damages for alleged slander, by Edward Bower, licensee of the European Hotel, and a former licensee of the Douglas Hotel, against, Laftey. Defendant is licensee ot Court's Hotel. Defendant accused Power of theft. The ca.se is unfinished. AUCKLAND, last night.

This morning a boy named. Roy Bartley, aged aboutj IG, fell when getting oil the front of a bus in Karangahake road. The hind wheel passed over his head. Deatli was instantaneous. '

THAMES, last night. Henry Gillespie, an old resident of the Thames, dropped down dead today outside his residence at Parawai. The supposed cause of death is paralysis of the. brain. WANGANUI, last night.

The Supreme Court sessions commenced this morning. .Judge Edwards complimented the Grand Jury on the lightness of the calendar, which only included five charges, and he remarked on the gratifying absence of offences against women and children. A peculiar feature was a case against a man named Weightman, for dTsoheying the order of the Court, for the payment, of one pound a week to his wife. The Judge told the jury that. Wcighlman’s wife’s mind became deranged, and they separated, the former goiug to New South Wales. Two years after that, an order was made directing die one pound payment. His Honor held that accused had committed no crime, seeing that the order for maintenance was made when he was a bona fide resident in another colony, and the Legislature never intended that a man should be made a criminal by something done behind his back after he had left the colony. The jury, however, returned a true bill, which Ilis Honor quashed, and then lie discharged the accused. An old offender, William Watson, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for breaking and entering.

MASTERTON, last night. A man named Peter Quillice,,a platelayer, returning home from work on a trolley, came into collision with a goods train on Saturday night, being thrown clean oil the line. He had his ear torn' off, but otherwise was uninjured. lie says that he neither saw nor heard the approaching train. WELLINGTON, last night/ Thomas Underhill, a wharf laborer, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of broaching cargo. flic Magistrate said that not only the character of prisoner, but, the character of the port, was on trial Mr Wilford. for tiie prosecution, said the Union Company had paid £lofi for pillaged goods in the last four months, Another wharf laborer was similarly charged and remanded. At a meeting of the Executive of the Municipal Association, held to-day, it was decided to ask the Government to include in ttie Municipal Corporations Bill the clause adopted by the recent, conference of the Association regarding

the erection of buildings on pjHeation grounds, thaij period for the confirmation of special orders he made 2S days, instead of 29, and that a protest he entered against clause 9 of the Bill, which authorises the lepcal of the fifth schedule of the principal Act on the ground that the repeal would involve the striking off of all special rates that had been pledged.