LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1353, 13 January 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

EGG-LAjYiN.G: COMPETITION* (Per Press Association.) BLENHEIM, last night. The New. Zealand Egg-laying Competition Association, formed irj Blenheim recently,, decided to-night .* to proceed with its competition, whether Government auspices which had'* been applied fox are granted ox- not. Arrangements for finance were adopted, and it was decided to procure a, site at once, ■ -f

.YOUNG, WOMAN KILLED, AUCKLAND, last night, ' While riding a horse at Wilson’s beach, Remuera, a young woman named Mary White was thrown through the animal swerving, and drag-« ge,d for some 70 or. 80 yards wiPfci, her foot in the stirrup-leather before the girth gave, away, and she was picked up unconscious, and expired , shortly, afterwards.

A YOUTH FATALLY, INJURED,

WESTPORT, last night. A lad named John Champion, 17 years, was run oyer by a truck today at Denniston, where he wau working for the Westport Coal Com-t. pany,. and died at 3.15 pm.

PRIMITIVE METHODISTS* CHRISTCHURCH, last night* erence"~the^rerni e aie 6hodist ConE. Drake, gave his address, which dealt with the English Educations Act, the House of- Lords’ decision o*', the United Free Church of Scotland > and the Newtown licensing -J urged aggressive missionary-’ sSL;and systematic ministerial educ3-* , The address was an able and educational utterance, which was well received.

A BLUFF CARTER AND A BOOK AGENT. I INVERCARGILL, last night. The long-pending decision in tta> I action of Skerret-t, a Blujl carter, against the Encyclopedia Company I for the recovery of a guinea paid for a copy of a volume in which plaintiff understood his portrait anil biograph .were to appear, was given to—day a The principal ground of -tho claim Was that the plaintifi was induced to sign a contract -by, reason of fraudulent statements of t?hai agents. The -Magistrate found that plaintilS had read the order and knew the nature of the contract. Ha. had afterwards said he Was disappointed with the work, and instructed defendants not to publish any* thing concerning him. It was absurd to now say that defendants had never consented to publish bis biography- Judgment was given fan .defendants, with costs £3 ios. Leave to appeal was • reEused*