NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 556, 28 October 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Associalnn. AUCKLAND, last night. The new steamer Claymore, 21 n tons, recently built, in Scotland to the order of tho McGregor Steamship Co., arrived from Glasgow, Capetown, and iiobart last night. Joseph- Hayden and Sydney Freeman, loth aged HI years, were going oil to a yacht at Otahuim in a dingy, which capsised. Both were drowned. 1 lirec other occupants were saved uy a boat, from the shore, being much exhausted. WAIROA, last night. Mr D. Whyte, of Tiniroto, has received a telegram from Hastings, stating that his expenses have been guaranteed for the election. He leit for Hastings this morning to meet the Liberals. WELLINGTON, lust night. Jane Warden came up for sentence this morning on a charge of making false declarations in connection with tlici registration of a child which .-die passed oil as her own. The Chief Justice ordered her to come up for sentence when called upon. The Court of Appeal to-day is hearing argument in the Wellington case Harcourt v. Aiken, an appeal from the decision of Judge Edwards, who . confirmed the verdict of a jury in awarding Aiken £sllO damages for malicious prosecution. Nominal fines were imposed bv hie Stipendiary Magistrate on two electors who signed forms for enrolment as witnesses without having seen the .signatures written by the persons desiring to get on the roll or having heard his- declaration. The Magistrate said that the matter was one of importance. not only in the case of enrolment forms, but in all cases of witnessing signatures. DUNEDIN, last night. Mr limes, who was announced as a candidate for Dunedin in the Prohibition interest, has retired from the contest owing to ill-health. WESTPORT, last night. Nicolas Frame lias been remanded on a charge of stabbing John McLeod oil the arm in a quarrel. Both are employed in the engine-room of the tramp steamer Whitgift. NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. Two men, named George Brownlee and Henry Martin, pleaded guilty m tiie Police Court to a charge of entering a tent ami stealing £2. They were remanded to the Supreme Court for sentence.