NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 870, 21 April 1903, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Associati in. WANGANUI, last night. At, the District Court this morning •Judge Kettle sentenced an old man Kiernau, aged 7(i, to three years for indecent assault on a girl of eight.. PALMERSTON N., last night.

Jubal Fleming, well known at Pa! merston, Wanganui, and Christehurcl died suddenly at s.2(i this morning aged ho. Wellington, last night.

The two men drowned in the liai bur hoaling fatality were Lennar Cross, aged 21, second mate, wli comes from London, and A. Gabrii .soil, A. 8., a Norwegian seaman. HOKITIKA, last night.

Henry Leslie Michael lias been elected’Mayor unopposed for (he seventh term. For nine Councillors’ seats there are twelve candidates.

The weather is very boisterous and unusually cold. DUNEDIN, last night.

Judge Williams passed the following sentences on prisoners : —James Cedes, for burglary, at iUorninglon, JS mouths; Francis Edwards, aged in, horse-stealing, at Oauiaru, twelve months; Patrick Brosnalmn (In), David Rowe (17), Robert Turnbull (la), Jor housebreaking, were associated in the dock with William Quail, charged witli receiving stolen goods. (Juan was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, Brosnalmn and Rowe to 111 months’ imprisonment, and Turnbull was admitted to probation for one vear. NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. The Arbitration Court has given several awards. The Hgmoul Boot Factory was joined lo the award operating in oilier districts, with a slight modification as lo the hours of lalior.- Tlie award in llie carpenters and joiners’ case lixed 1 lie minimum wage at Is .’-id per hour, with preference 1o unionists. In llie painters’ case, the minimum was lived al Is Hd, with preference to union men. HAWEKA, last, night.

The body of .Summers, drowned in the Wangongoro river on Thursday, was .recovered yesterday afternoon, lialf-a-mile below the lord where the accident occurred.