NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1433, 18 April 1905, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

, .-,-„(Eer_J^resa_Aasoclattopi^) : A . -i,-> . AUCKLAND, night, .William 'prifAor. .undergoing a sentence of tw,o years- at Mpunt- Eden gaol,, was chapgj'd with destrevlng prison property and assaulting two warders. He alloged ,xbab the warders did not use more violence than was necessary. He sentenced prisoner to fourt-eei days’ confinement and .the. loss o' tw.elvc months’ marks. William Henderson, who vas found under Miss Bo.ule’s bed, was sentenced to three months as a vagrant. He could not explain why, te waa in the bedroom, Hie denied that ho contemplated robbery, James Regan, editor and proprietor of Saturday Night, wat charged With .knowingly gelling i paper .wherein was an article obtaining matter of an- obscene nature, likely, to corrupt morals'. Mr To-, Crown , I'rosocutor,;."secured an adjiumment un’iii to-morrow, to allow, the case 'to come before ,thc Stipenaary Magistrate, NAPIER,, las night,. Al tho inquest held oq he body of !Anj(s ‘ McDonald, ‘found unconscious in a street channel at Hstlngs, a verdict ’ pj death from. apqfeXy was returnei. ' Mb C .Carnell has beer re-elected, Mayor unopposed. Ten candidates have beet, nominated for Ebja flo.uspila WANGANUI, lait night. Aflei the .longest spel of. dry .weather .experienced ‘here for fortytwo years, rain, has fallen in sufficient, fluaatiby to. raise the water in the riper several feeti greatly facilitating tourist' itraffi* to and from Taumaranni, 5 HGKITIK-i!, last nightAn elderly woman named Ellen Cato fell .over a 40ft,sluicing faoe at ivumaia on Wednesruy night, and Was discovered , this morning alive, Thu ribs on her right. side wore broken. -Her body ,vas terribly ' 'bruised,! She, waa. removed, to the hospital, .wjiere she lies in a precarious condition, DUNEDIN, last night. At the City, Court Joo How was fined .£lO for selling a pakapoo tickets Hie. was given the alternative of a' month's imprisonment. .The Stars Cromwell correspondent wires that a'bu'ggy containing Win, Mu-pro,.. Charles. Williams, Joseph Orkney and Will Ruffie,. bolted down the Bannockburn Hill. The occupants jumped out, Williams) was seriously injured, and has reached Cromwell Hospital. jMunro, who Was winchman of Electric 'No, 2 dredge, died this morning-