AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1073, 15 December 1903, Page 2

AUCKLAND NEWS.

Per Press Association., AUCKLAND, last night.

AnuioJ Trimmer, married, aged 62, fell when leaving a friend’s house and died almost immediately. The cause of death i 3 unknown.

Sir Joseph Ward has returned from Botorua. Ho returns South on Wednesday. Mr Seddon returns South by the Takapuna to-day. George Spurway, an old ago pensioner, has been committed to prison for two months for what the Stipendiary Magistrate described as the worst case of fraud in' connection with pension he had seen. Accused’s pension was cancelled, and he was ordered to refund double the amount paid. He had declared himself possessed of no property, but shortly before apply, ing for the pensian withdrew T2Bl from the savings bank and subsequently redeposited the money, and again withdrew it prior to renewal of application. In the Supreme Court William Adams, who pleaded guilty to supplying the natives of Kaikohe with rifles 'and ammunition, was refused probation, and was fined £SO or six months, the sentence being regarded by Judge Edwards as lenient. In the divorce case, Isabella Major v .George Everett Major, a decree nisi was granted'on the grounds of desertion and adultery, with costs',