NEW ZEALAND

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 827, 27 February 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND

Per Press Association

WANGANUI, last night.

In the .Supreme Conn this morning V.eLor Caller was admitted to probation for two and a half years for forgery at Mangaweka, and was ordered to pay twenty-four pounds for costs. Guildford Andrews received a sentence of two years for breaking and entering the Museum and Borough Council Chambers. Thomas Kelly and Richard Arthur Toy, for assault and robbery at Feilding, received a sentence of two years, and Richard Wickham six months for escaping from a policeman. ...••■ 11AWERA, lal night.

At the Police Count a man for supplying liquor to a prohibited person was lined live pounds and costs, or in default a month’s imprisonment. Tho Magistrate said that the offence was ail abominable one, and was becoming much 100 frequent, and he declined to allow even an hour in which to pay the line. Four similar eases will lie heard at the next, Court sitting. The "Temperance Party have decided lo run candidates for the Licensing Committees, pledged to ten o’clock licenses.

A poll lo borrow five thousand five hundred pounds for drainage extension and street improvements was catried by a large majority. WELLINGTON, last night.

il: is rumored that Mr Diimic, inspector of Scotland Yard, succeeds Mr Tunbridge as Commissioner of Police. The steamer Surrey has been iixed as the March steamer under (he contract with the Government and the New Zealand and South African Steamship Company, and the contractors have nominated for Government approval the following loading ports Port Chalmers, Napier, Gisborne, and Wellington. Government approval will be withheld until the fourth of next month, in order lo gp'e any ports in the colony a chance lo come in under a guarantee of Ilir.ee hundred tons of»cargo. Guarantees of cargo should be in the hands of the Secretary or Industries and Commerce before the fourth March. CHRISTCHURCH, last night.

The University Senate this morning passed a resolution allowing junior scholars to use their scholarships while pursuing .medicine, Jaw, or engineering courses, as well as arts or science, as previously provided. TLIUARU, last night.

During the hearing of applications for renewals of old age pensions here it transpired that one old lady who had been receiving a full pension of eighteen pounds owned property worth one hundred and eighty pounds, am! therefore was entitled to a pension of ten pounds. Prior to making the original application four years ago she mortgaged her property and lent Ihc money to her son. The Magistrate warned the applicant that she was liable to prosecution, and ordered her to repay thirty-two pounds received in excess; in default the pension would he stopped. DUNEDIN, last night. Southam’s sentence was four years in all.