NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1377, 11 February 1905, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

jCPer Press [Association.) Stratford, last night. At tho District Court to-day Henry George Culliogham, a bankrupt, was charged with a breach uf the Bankruptcy Act in obtaining credit frool.Newton Kilig, auctioneer, by means of fraud. He was acquitted. The local wel come to Judge Haselden., ' • ...

Wellington, last night. Messrs.Marchant, Surveyor-General F. Simpson, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Taranaki, andj J. McKenzie, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland, are also members of the North Island Representation Commission.

Arrangements are being made by the Government to soil'd an export from Calcutta to superintend the sterilising of bones for shipment to New Zealand. It is belie the .-position will be" filled, by Mr Laurio, 'who was appointed last year to manage the sterilizing works which tho Government had decided to erect at Auckland and Bluff.

Mr K. W. Dwyer, S.M., at Kaiapoi, is to take up the duties of Magistrate at Auckland. Mr JR. A. Acbeson, of Carterton, who has been appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate, wilhprobably be stationed at Westland..

Roc-fton, this day. The annual meeting of the Trades and Labor Council was commenced on Wednesday. A lengthy order paper was subEmbodying suggestions from the vario'.s unions regarding needed reforms for the safety and health of miners. The Union demands several Acts affecting minors, etc. Tho Council adjourned cn Wednesday afternoon to visit the Progress battery, and resumed this morning. The sitting is likely to continue for five or six days. HOKITIKA, last nibkt. The Magistrate, Mr ; V. G, Day,, lias been notified, of his transfer -to North' Canterbury; and to assist in Ohristchurch district. General regret is expressed at his departure^