NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 947, 21 July 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

A TEMPESTUOUS [VOYAGE. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. The ship King George arrived from New. York this morning. The vessel made Cook’s Straits some weeks ago, but, owing to extremely, bad .weather, was unable to reach Wel- . lington. The Heads were made several times, but the ship yjas blown .off, and after wasting 20 days in ineffectual attempts to get to port, and losing several boats, Captain Pulton, the master, decided to make Auckland. A FALSE REPORT, AUCKLAND,;, last nighty The Star’s Pukekohe correspondent Wires: “I cannot find any cattle sickness in this district. The local veterinary surgeon knows nothing of any outbreak of anthrax, as reported in the Wellington telegrams.’! SHOOTING. ACCIDENT. . ,1 TAURANGA, last night. Some boys were shooting with a pea-rifle in the township of Te Puke, when one of the bullets struck a Maori standing near in the left ‘breast, penetrating his lung. . He lies, in a critical condition. ASCENT OF MOUNT EGMONT. NEW PLYMOUTH', last night, A party of four —Messrs G. E.; Mannering, A. R, Standish, Claude H.. Wilson and Fj Carrington—made the first winter ascent of Mount •Egmont on Sunday, reaching the top after seven hours’ climb.,' The snow was very treacherous, new. snow ly-, ing loosely upon the old and harder surface- One thousand steps were cut in the course of the climb. A snow storm came on when the party were at the top. MAORI WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE. WANGANUI, last night, A young Maori woman, the wife of Neil Wilson, Kauangaroa, committed suicide this morning by taking strychnine. Her husband went outside, and, returning some little time after, found his wife on the floor, and 'a bottle containing strychnine on the table. Emetics were applied unavailingly. Deceased was depressed at the loss of her child two months ago.