NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 924, 24 June 1903, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Association, AUCKLAND, last, night. In the annual report of the Devonian Ferry Company, a net profit m £31)10) (!) is shown. An interim dividend of id per cent, is declared, and £3130 earned forward. N API hi It, lav i night. \] r i|. 11. Simmonds, killed at Waikaremoana, was employed by the Tourist Department as a landscape gardener in laying out Lie grounds •it the Government accommodauunhotise there. Deeeased, wiio leaves a widow and live children in Napiei, was fur some years secretary to the local 1 lortieullural Society. Applications for the Argyll settlement, are not coming in as last as was expected. Tills is attributed to the system of grouping the. sections, under which an applicant mignt he compelled to take a section altogether unsuitable for his purposes. NKW PLYMOUTH, last, night. yir McKinnon Lain, the manager of the New Zealand Band in Lug-

land, writes We have .been havj lui wondcriul success. We playeu bv command, before the Prince and princess oL Wales, and will play i>y command before the Kins and Queen about .Jline. Thu Lour is proving a iinaucial success.” WELLINGTON, last night. \| t - id. (ierard, chief clerk to the Wellington Ollieial Assignee., has been appointed to succeed Mr Lawson as Odieial Assignee at Auckland. in the Supreme Court tins morning, four prisoners came up for seulence. Alfred W. AitUen, lor the t, was sentenced to lifted, months; Isidore M. Cohen, false pretences, lb months. Theodore Lcchner and J. Chapman, the hoy burglars, applied for probation. Chapman s case was adjourned with the objeet putting him on a farm. Lechnei was sent to an industrial school. Amongst the very large, number of cables and telegrams received by H e Premier, conveying Inrthday gettings, were messages from Mr Chamberlain and the Mayor of Wigau.Laueashue. DUNEDIN> last night. Surgcons-Captain id. -J. ° Neill and A. It. Falconer, of the New /calami Medical stall, have passed then proficiency examination m London, conducced by the officers oi the Hoy al Army Medical Corps. Both ait Dunedin men, and both served with distinction in South Africa.