LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1397, 7 March 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) -- WANGANUI, last night. 'At the innuest to-day on Norman, McLeod, who hanged himself on Sun- v day, a verdict of suicide while item.—:.'; - porarily insane was returned. INVERCARGILL, last, night. J.ustico Williams and jury, have been engaged fours days hearing they ■ divorce case William James Kidd v, . Ann Kidd and E. E- Wallis, all of > Gore, husband’s petition for- divorce, op the grounds of adultery, and for-x’ . £SOO damages. A; counter petition j ' .was filed by fespondent applying for' divorce on the grounds of . adultery (admitted) and cruelty-. ' To-night;,-, •the jury, after- -two hours’ retire- "-v ment, found, fo.r »etitioner and assessed damages! at one hundred, pounds.. „ •

AUCKLAND, last night- iV .The Premier arrived at Uargaviiie - to-night. Ho received deputations j ati -Hellensville and other places,, and had a hearty, welcome at several ; stations along tho line. . ; ’ George Wright, photographer, formerly, of Christchurch, was drowned: Whilei bathing .‘•at Mangawbare today. • ’ . V>b. A sixteen-year-old girl named Mary —- Ann King,, xeting in. Freeman’s Bay* swallowed the heads of a bos and a •half of matches- -An emetic was immediately applied, -and. the. girl is —- \ ; now making good progress .towards *. recovery.

BLENHEIM, last- night. George May, forty-fi,ve years ofi , age, unmarried, was drowned in tho -- •; Waijrau 'river to-day. He was sailing up the riven ip a taoat witb an--•f r ~ other man when a gust of wind—caused the boat. ito capsize,- May, who was wearing an, overcoat* Struck out fox the shore and. sank- Hi' companion clung to the boat . ajj saved himself,' May, was recently, •sheep farmer in Canterbury. The inlqu'est on! Abraham lEart, Who ' Wins killed in „a blasting accident in ' a road metal -quarry at Bara on the 24th February, when his brothers also were seriously injured, was resumed at Picton to-day.. Captain A.— Walconer gave expert- evidence to tho effect that not sufficient was observed on. returning ''-‘to the 0. efuarry,! when the charge of gunipowoc misfired, 'the brothers only allowed V an interval of half an hour. The v~F •' service regulation was two to four hours. A cheap fuse was. used, such? ; • as he himself would not use. for explosives, and ho attributed the mis- « fire to a fault in the fuse. A verdiet was returned that death wag due to an explosion, no blame being attachable .to anyone.;