LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1439, 27 April 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

MINING SHARES,; (Pen Press Association.) 1 ' DUNEDIN, last night. _ .The only sale on the Exchange after the Eas.ter holidays! was Otago, at '9os,! i , TI-IE MOANA. CHRISTCHURCH, last night* Sailed ’ The s.s. Mo ana, tor, Sydney, via East Coast ppets,. Pa**-' sengers for Gisborne; i Mra Uqrri® ■and Miss Craighead, A FIRE,; ' 1 ' NAPIER, last night.

Aj four-roomed house at Greenmea'dows, owned by Mr H, Stevens, and occupied by Mr P, GrucTiy, was destroyed hy. lire this afternoon. The furniture was insured, for £-100, but .the insurance on the buildinig is not •known, THE PUKEKOHE FATALITY, ' AUCKLAND, last night. At the inquest o® the body of Albert Hammond, who was killed by Jailing from the express train near (PukeKoho on Tuesday, the ‘evidence was to the effect that deceased . was standing "on the gangway between two carriages, when a lurch throw him agaipst the railing,which gave .way, and caused him to fall, on to the line. . A verdict of accidental death .was returned,. GO.OD TEMPLARS,

INVERCARGILL, last night. At the Grand Lodge meeting of the I.(J,G_,T, hot-day, after the discussion of the cash statement and statistical portion of the Grand Secretary/® report, the report Was finally adopted. The report of. the Grand Lodge Parliamentary reprosentati.ve, Bro. E. Walker, was adopted. The hearty thanks of the Lodge .was accorded, to Bro- E, Walker, The Grand electoral superintendent’s report .was adopted. It was decided to remove the Grand Lodge Office to Wellington. The report of the committee on the state of order .was adopted,, Bro. Taylor Was re-elected G- C-T. , A TECHNICAL PLEA'. 1 DUNEDIN, last night. In Chambers to-day application Was made to make absolute a mile nisi granted for habeas corpus in respect to Elizabeth Jioihnston, who Was recently convicted of sly-’grog selling and fined £SO on each of the two charges, on the ground 'that the Warrants were informal, inasmuch as the provision in the Jiustice of the Peace Act having reference to a Cumulative'sentence not having been complied with. The order was ■granted and as a result Elizabeth Johns! one, instead of having to ser,vo two month®, is now at liberty after haying served onetmointh.