NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 826, 26 February 1903, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

LICENSING ELECTION

.(Per Press Association.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, last night-. The New Plymouth Council of Churches lias decided to bring outlive candidates lor the Licensing Committee pledged to ten o’clock closing. LAND HUNGER.

No less than five hundred and fiftyeigtit applications were received at the Land Office for the eleven sections of land now offering for selection, varying from one hundred and Jweiitymiir to four hundred acres. The ballot. will fake place on Thursday.

ENTERTAINING THE SQUADRON AUCKLAND, last night-.

At a meeting convened by the Mayor tu-day, it was decided to arrange for an acquatic display on Saturday, on th: occasion of the arrival of the Australian squadron also to arrange for a. day’s sport in the domain for the entertainment of the officers and men. The squadron executed some manoeuvres at the Bay of Islands today, aud engaged in gun practice, SUPREME COURT. DUNEDIN, last night.

At the Supreme Court to-day, Good Malison, who was found guilty of assault, was admitted to probation on paying the sum of eight pounds to the young man assaulted, and was ordered to pay, the costs of me prosecution. Samuel Southam, wno pleaded guilty to six charges oi housebreaking and robbery,, hut successfully defended himself in another case in which two hundred pounds’ world of jewellery was stolen (a razor and ring being the only articles from the house found on him), was semcnced to four years’ hard labour on each charge, sentence to he cumulative.. Southam stated that the other man whom he described to the police had been concerned in some of tiie robberies. Sll EAREPiS’ UN 1 ON.

The Otago Shearers’ Union is forwarding to the flockmasters a proposa 1 re the conditions of labor The hours arc from seven a.m. to forty minutes jiasl five p.m., with halt holiday on Saturday. ’ The price of (lock sheep is fixed at eighteen shillings per hundred. FATAL ACCIDENT.

A man named William Sherberi was inured this afternoon while shunfing in tiie goods-yard. On being taken to the hospital, it was found necessary to amputate his right leg. The man never rallied, and died to-night. I If; was thirty-one years of age and married.