NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 812, 29 January 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) WAIROA, yesterday. rr be Government decline to take Mr J. Hunter Brown’s Whakaki estate for close settlement until the native litigation‘is settled. NAPIER, la; t night. r i!ie ease for the Government in the MiJhcurne compensation case opened this morning. Dr Findlay submitted that the other side were not entitled to esl the Government to pay a price base! on any subdivisioual valuation of the land’ which had to take into account the cost of roading, surveying, etc. The case is expected to finish tc-morrow. , ~ v poll is being, taken to-day on the Be jough Council’s proposal to borrow £.42 000 for various works. There is a stroDg feeling that the sum asked fo.: it more than required, and the proposals are likely to be rejected, ... FEILDING. last night. An amateur Operatic society, was formed here last night.

WELLINGTON, last night. Two Maori hoys, aged K and -1, wer: playing with their father s loaded gun at Ohau yesterday, and by some accident the elder boy shot his brother dead. ASHBURTON, last night, Tl i; . damage to business premises by yesterday’s wind is estimated at fully . HOKITIKA, last night. The weather has been very broken dnr in" the week and unusually cold for this time of the year Snow ft I last evening on the low-lying hills roinvl the harbour. A league is moving m the direction of” obtaining an expert report on the impiovcmcnt of the hat hour . t proposal is mooted to procure smtibffi auxiliary "oais for He local timber trade. A report will be obtained as to the class ‘ot vessels consthnsL.