LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 949, 23 July 1903, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Association Wanganui, last night.

At a public meeting to-night resolutions approving of Bible reading in the publio schools, and requesting Mr Willis, the local member, to support Mr Arnolds Bill, were carried. Auckland, last night. A young man named Tnomas Joy was drowned at Taupiri this morning. He was getting logs from a creek for a sawmill and slipped into the water. The body was recovered twenty minutes after, but all efforts to revive life failed. Blenheim, last night. The representative football match, South Canterbury versus Marlborough, resulted in a win for the visitors by 13 points to nil. The visitors outclassed the local men in the back department. Wellington, last night. The Rev. James Paterson, who has resigned charge of St. John’s Presbyterian Church after twenty-five years’ ministry, was to night presented with a cheque for £347 by his congregation, and with a valuable piece of plate for Mrs Paterson. Hawera, last night. Frank Whiting was to-day committed for trial on a oharge of perjury arising out of a recent licensing case.