LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 893, 16 May 1903, Page 2

LA TE NEW ZEALAND.

By Telegraph—Press Association—

Napier, las: right. A lather serious accident befol Captain William Edwards, master of the lighter Trusty, in the bay this morning. Tne lighter was discharging frozen moat into

the Gothic, and Captain Edwards had gone on board the big steamer to receive tne boat note, While he was standing on the hatchway he was knocked overboard by a meat sling, and falling on the deck of the Trusty broke his left arm, and received a severe shaking. The injuries are nut likely to be dangerous.

Christchurch, last night. At the Police Court to day Edwin Drapper and Thomas Houlahan, charged with assaulting C. H. L. Waiter, auctioneer, were lined £TO each. Notice of appeal was given. The inquest on tho illegitimate child, Albert Edward Gillies, adjourned from Tuesday, concluded to day at the morgue. Dr Clayton, who had made a post mortem, stated that on Tuesday the stomach presented intense inflammation, which might possibly have been caused by an irritant poison. He was not satisfied that death was due to natural cause.-, gastro enteritis. Professor Biekerton said lie had been unable to detect poison. The jury ritunud a verdict tiiat the child died Irom natural causes. A meeting of the Council of the New Z-aland Busing Association resolved to write to the New South Wales Association stating that it would send a team to compete against New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria iu September. It was resolved to decline the request of F. H. Survey, a professional, to arrange a match between him and A. Partridge. Dunedin, lust night.

The Parliamentary excursion, iueiud

ing Sir J. G. Ward, over the Otago Centra! railway, returned to town this evening. Misty rain set in at Ophir before the party left by coach, and then the party saw practically nothing of tho Ida Valley and country about there served by the line. There appears to be a consensus of opinion amongst members that the line having been carried sc far, should at least go to Alexandra. Rain became heavier after leaving Ida Valley, and tho hills on each side of Maniototo and part of the plain were shrouded in mist. Wellington, last night.

Mr J. IT. Pope, Inspector of Native Schools, will be retired from Government service at tho end of the year.

Government has acquired from G. Parsons an estate of 2du acres in Marlborough district, near Kaikoura, which will be cut

up into small farms. The statistics of rainfall in Wellington for the past o 7 years shows that rain foil on an average 170 days each year, Feilding, last night. The Government Engineer’s report

dealing with the Feilding-Apiti railway is favorable. Ha says it would form a valuable feeder to the main lino. The estimated cost is £IIB,OOO.

Auckland, last night,

An enquiry into the management of the hospital instituted by tho local bodies openod to-day, A mass of statistics was laid before the Commission, and the secretary of the Hospital Board and Dr Collins, senior medical officer, with tho aid of a blackboard, explained tho reasons for increases in various items of hospital expenditure, the largo number of infectious cases deult with, and consequent additional cost, being, according to the doctor’s statement, mainly responsible for the increased cost of running tho hospital. Tho enquiry was adjourned until Monday.

Dunedin, last night.

At a meeting of Caversliam electors, after tho Mayor had explained the position of tho borough, a motion was carried that the time has not arrived for the amalgamation of Caversliam with Dunedin. The Hon. J. McGowan, Minister of Mines, arrived from the north to-night, and proceeds iu tho morning to inspect the Charlton Creek district.