NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 821, 20 February 1903, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Auckland, last night.

In the Supreme Court, in tho case against Henry Essex, charged with breaking and entering and theft of slimes from 1 the Waihi Gold Mining Company, and • also with receiving, the Crown admitted • that there was no evidence to support the ' charge of breaking and entering. Evidence is now being taken on tho charge , of receiving. • The Arbitration Court award in the typographical dispute is on the basis of tho industrial agreements in force in Canterbury, and Otago, except that the minimum is raised to seven thousand ons. Napier, last night. Tho Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company cable : “ The frozen i meat market is depressed. There is a further fall of North Island mutton. First quality lamb has also declined one halfpenny. To-day’s quotations are : Canterbury 4|d, Napier, Wellington and North Island 4d; lamb, first quality 6£d, second 64 d.” Feilding, last night. The three-year-old daughter of Constable Whitehouse swallowed some carbolic acid this morning. The child died at 12.40 p.m. Hawera, last night. The Maori killed yesterday while riding to Kotcmanae after tho races, was named Bangi, aged 55. He was drunk, and after boing placed on his horse by a native friend started galloping. Ho fell heavily on the metal, and was picked up dead, his skull being fractured. Wellington, last night. The Supreme Court gave judgment this morning on application by certain Newtown electors, chiefly sympathisers with the prohibition movement, for writs of prohibition and mandamus to prevent the Stipendiary Magistrate ordering a scrutiny with the object of striking off certain votes in connection with the Newtown local option poll, and judgment went in favor of the prohibitionists, the Court holding that the Magistrate had not jurisdiction to order a scrutiny, as he had done. Costs £25 and disbursements were allowed the petitioners. The effect of this decision is understood to be that those attempting to upset the Newtown poll will have to rely on alleged irregularities and the question of whether informal votes should count in the estimation of a three-fifths majority. At a mass meeting of carpenters and joiners last evening it was decided to ask for an increase from Is 4d to Is 6d per hour. The Arbitration Court fixed the minimum at Is 4d, but the men are dissatisfied. There was talk of laying down their tools and boycotting, but eventually : it was decided as above. In the Divorce Court, in Winch v. • Winch, husband's petition, Feely v. l’eely. ; husband’s petition, Lamb v. Lamb, wife’s ] petition, decrees nisi were granted. ] The petitioners against the prohibi- J tion poll at Newtown intend to appeal , against the decision of tho Supreme Court to-day,

Christchurch, last night. The University Senate resumed its sitting this morning. A resolution of sympathy was passed re the late Hon. W. Eolleston and Bishop Cowie. The Senate then went into committee to consider the Chancellor’s report. Dunedin, last night. John Cairns, charged with assault and robbery from Thomas Beid, was remanded on bail, himself in £2OO and two sureties of £IOO each. In the Supremo Court Mr Justice Williams upheld the will of John Jenkins in favor of Percival Commins, doctor of magnetics. Westport, last night. A steerage passenger by the Mapourika, from Wellington to Greymouth, was found drowned in the Buffer river this morning. East Cape reported a light northerly breeze yesterday ; barometer corrected, thermometer 73 in shade. The weathei" 0,35 of a mu S&V' gloomy nature, With a heavy swell,