NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1378, 13 February 1905, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) NflW PLYMOUTH;, Saturday. I - Tlio jockeyj O'Connell, injured wibilsdi riding Inniskillen on Thursday, regained consciousness last night. Nq bynes w.ero brokca. He is rapidly improving. WESTPORT, Saturdays •Patrick Ryan, proprietor of the I (Victoria Hotel, lell in his bar on Thursday, and. badly broke his right leg. He was admitted to the hosI pital, and died. last, night.. Pie was in bad health generally. CrRKYMOUTII, Saturday, Roberts’ sawmill was burned down this morning. The loss will be about £IBOO, The building was insured for £3OO in the Phoenix. WELLINGTON, Saturday. Captain Post left for Sydney this afternoon for the purpose of bring- I ing oyer the trainiiug vessel Sparrow to Wellington. Mr R. A. Wright, : of Wright and Carman, printers, has been appointed organiser for the Bible in Schools j

movement, at a salary of £3OO and travelling expenses. He begins the Iwor)> at the end, of the present month, probably, in the South.

' AUCKLAND, Saturday* 3 ‘ £Tff a case air rbho Auckland Sypl' rerno Court yesterday, morning of 3 alleged cattle stealing against a young man named Win. Winters, at I- Aratapu, evidence was given by; a - youth named Pcrcival Smith* who is 1- undergoing two months sentence in connection with the same aKair. '• When Smith’s evidence bad reached . a certain stage, His Honor observed • that the evidence might prove that . accused took the animals to another ■ part of the district, and thus com- ; mitted an impudent trespass, but it did not prove theft, and there would be no case to go to the jury unless something more were proved- He instructed the jury to bind a verdict of not guilty, with which' they, complied. He was informed that Smith had been sentenced by, ’.Justices to two months’" imprisonment, of which there were three weeks more to serve His Honor said he was of opinion the boy ought not to have been, convicted, and probabfy he ought to be released. 'No definite order was made, but it is probable the boy/s release will he arranged,; ! STRATFORD, Saturday. Mr Massey addressed a large meeting here last night, when he criticised the Government policy, especially in regard to the land question. He said that the Commission would cost £SOOO or £6OOO, apid the report would not be worth three farthings, j The leader- of the Opposition hjid a good reception.;