WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1443, 2 May 1905, Page 1

WELLINGTON NEWS.

(Pec Press Association.) Wellington, last night. A well-known resident, Mr G. H. Luxford, who arrived in Wellington in 1840, died here yesterday, aged 79. Deceased had been a successful grazier at Palmerston North and Wairarapa, and was the pioneer owner of the Melrose estate, Wellington. The members of the Land Commission left for Auckland this morning. . Mr P. J. Nolan, a member of tbe New Zealand Times' literary staff, well-ltnown in the colony, has accepted a position on the Sydney Daily Telegraph. The time in which the Land Commission is to submit its report has been extended a month. The Supreme Court criminal sessions opened to-day. The Chief Justice, 'in his oharge- to the Grand Jury, coograiulated the district small calendar, although the figures for the past year did not show that crime had decreased. Notwithstanding the prosperity of the colony apd the fact that work could be easily got, the criminal class did not show any diminution, and it was regrettable that theinajor. ity of cases were of theft. His Honor believed that one way of stopping orithe was to see that when a man committed si crime he would be convicted by the jury.: If it came to be recognised tnat a man-guilty was certain of conviction it would have an immense influence.