LATE NEW ZEALAND

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1385, 21 February 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND

(Per Press Association.) Thames, last night. Tho timber trade continues busy. Large cargoes are being exported to Australian ports. The principal: timber is white pine for butter boxes, eto.

i WaDganui, last night. Goneral Average has been scratched for all engagements at the Wanganui meeting. The Supreme Court opened this morning before the Chief Justice. A man named Middleton pleaded guilty to brooking and entering and was remanded until to-morrow for sentence, as also was MeAlinden for assault. The jury disagreed in the ease against Jones for alleged theft of a suit of clothes.

Dunedin, last night. The annual report of the Otago Rugby Union stated that during . the year £IOO was voted to the Accident Insurauce Fund for investment, starting the season with £52 cash in hand. £2OO was transferred from the fixed deposit to the current account, and there is now a baok over, draft of £22 3s 4d. The assets amount to £1256.

Dr J. D. Marks was to-day appointed senior house surgeon to the Dunedin Hospital. Tho Representation Commissioners sat to-day, and hope to complete to-morrow the division of Dunedin into three electorates.

Blenheim, last night. In Flaxbourne case to-day the whole of the sitting was taken up with the addresos of Messrs Sim and Skerrett, counsel respectively for respondent minister and the claimant. Mr Sim spoke for two hours and forty minutes and Mr Skerrett spoke for nearly three hours. Mr Justice Cooper Baid that the Court would reassemble on Wednesday afternoon, when he would intimate if a decision had been arrived at. He remarked that whereas the amount of claim was £335,000, the highest valuation on the side of the Crown was £146,000. Thus the Court had to consider a difference of nearly £200,000. WELLINGT GN, last night. The Executive meets to-morrow, to decide the fate of Elßs, sentenced to dea/thi fon the murder of Collinson, b.ut recommended to mercy. The Premier will o.pon the Feilding Show or. Wednesday. The Hon. T. Y. Duncan, Minister of! Lands, narrowly, escaped a serious •acciden t to-day. tie jumped off a moving tranjear, and fell heavily' alongside the track. The bogey (struck one of-his boots, apd twisted him round as he lay on the ground. His body was afterwards struck by the rear of the ear. Mr Duncan was picked up by onlookers, who. were astcwiished to' find that be was- uninjured.

AUCKLAND, last night. Lady Onslow, Lady Dorothy Ohslow, and the Hon. Huia Onslow; left -by, the steamer' Manjuka to-night, for Sydney. Dr Bell, the new Government Geologist,. arrived by the mail steamer.