NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 824, 24 February 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

By; Telegraph—Press Association— Palmerston North, last night. 1 Cable advice was received last night of the death at Sydney yesterday of Mr S. Cohen, for many_ years a well known resident of Christchurch, and father of Mr M. Cohen, of Palmerston. Deceased was aged 76, and had been residing in Australia for the past two years.

At the S.M. Court this morning, Frederick Batke, who represented himself as an Imperial artillery man, with Buller at Tugela, wa3 sentenced to four months’ imprisonment on five charges of false pretences. Accused masqueraded the streets of the town for over a week in an orthodox Imperial uniform.

Dunedin, last night.

Frederick Ralph Payne, two years of age, a sou of Mr Payne, solicitor, fell over a bank at Belleknowes, sustaining injuries to which he succumbed.

Mr George Dowse, the woll-known handicappor, died yesterday.

Thomas Eedpath shot himself with a pea-rifie shortly aitor returning from church at Waitahuna yesterday. Ho had beon suffering from insomnia. Tho criminal sessions opened this morning. J udgo Williams congratulated the Grand Jury on tho lightness of tho calendar. Alexander Logan was committed for sentence from Gore on a charge of forgery, and was admitted to probation for six months, and ordered to pay £1 2s, costs of tho prosecution. Hector Morrison, convicted of indecont assault on a married woman at Waikouaiti, was sentenced to twelve mouths’. Lloyd Evans, for forgery at Christchurch, was admitted to probation for twelve months, on condition that ho paid £3O to prosecutor and £ls towards tho costs of prosecution.

Invorcargill, last night

At tho I’olico Court to-day, the Magistrate, Mr McCarthy, sentenced a passenger to seven days’ imprisonment without the option of a tine for creating a disturbance by singing in a railway carriage. James Carey was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment for indecent behaviour in the presence of girls.