NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 921, 20 June 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

OBITUARY,

Per Press Association., NAPIER, last night. Obituary : Mr T. 11. Spencer, a well-known Native interpreter. Deceased was the son of an Anglican clergyman. He came to the colony in the very early days. He has two brothers in the Ministry, one being stationed at Nelson. TRACTION ENGINES.

.PALMERSTON N., last night, Owing to the great increase in traction engine traffic in the district and the consequent cutting up of the county roads by the extraordinary traffic, the Kairanga County Council has imposed an annual license lee of £25 on each engine not used solely for agricultural purposes. A NEW LICENSE.

STRATFORD, last night. The Patea Licensing Committee yesterday granted a new license lor Whangamomona, forty miles inland from Stratford. The grant was op-, posed by the temperance party andl the case occupying the whole day. The new; license replaces the Whcnuakura license, which was dropped.

A SURPRISE VISIT. * WELLINGTON, last night. Messrs Duthie, Aitken, and Buchanan, M.H.R.’s, paid a surprise visit •to the Porirua Asylum to-day, and found everything in model order. There was no overcrowding. They strongly condemn, jiowever, the new ■building ip course of erection, as the site is damp and unsuitable, and worst of all, the building is being erected of wood, even in the (ace of the Colncy Hatch tragedy. FATAL ACCIDENT. INVERCARGILL, last night, Henry Currie, aged twenty-five, 'a single man employed at the Nightcaps mine, was killed by a fall of coal , last night. Ilis relatives reside at Blackball, near Grcymoutli.