NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1056, 25 November 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

!(Per Press Association.) WANGANUI, last night.

The town is filling with visitors for the agricultural show opening to-morrow. The entries are large.

particularly the horses, which constitute a record for the colony. The weather has every appearance of keeping fine. Two volunteers were fined the maximum for misconduct during the battalion camp of instruction a few weeks ago.

WELLINGTON, last night

The s.s. Kahu reports that when passing Cape Palliser this morning she could see no sign of the wrecked barque Ben Avon. It is supposed siie lias gone to pieces.

At the Supreme Court, Robert Og-

ilvie, charged with an unnatural offence and found guilty of indecency, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. ’" r

NELSON, last night,

In the bye-election for the Harbor Beard lor Waimea County, the returns so far available assure Mr Franklin’s return, he polling 114 to Mr Batt’s 38 and Mr Hoult’s 30. Six or eight small returns are still to come. Mr Franklin resigned because the Board adopted the report, of the consulting engineers, entailing what he considered to be deviations from Mr Leslie Reynolds’ original plans of harbor construction. CHRISTCHURCH, last night.

'At the annual meeting of the colonial shareholders of the' New Zealand Shipping Company to-day, the report and balance-sheet of the Loudon Board were adopted. Messrs J. ft. Blair, John Anderson, and G. G. Stead, the retiring directors, were rc-clocted, and Mr 11. P. MurrayAynsiey w;as re-elected Chairman of Directors.

HOKITIKA, last night, The body of Henry Appleton, missing since the 7th inst., was found this morning in the . river, near where the fatality is supposed to have occurred.