LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1448, 8 May 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) i WhaDgarei, last night. Tho Baud Commission party drove through from Waipu, arriving at 7 o’clock on Saturday evening. There was perfect weather, and the roads were good. They stayed oyor to day at Whangarei, and leave early to-morrow for Kawabawa.

Christchurch, last night. The Canterbury Political Reform League was formed at a largely attended meetiugr here on Friday night, and the Opposition platform, as propounded by Mr Massey in his speech hero on Tuesday night, was adopted. Arrangements were made for a Vigorous political campaign. ft is anticipated that a portion of tho e ootric tram?, ays here will be in operation before the end of tho present month.

Tlie fourth trial of the case in which Herbert Pearson was charged with committing a criminal assault on a woman named Beuth, at Cambridge, on October 5 of last year, is to .take nlaco at Auckland on May, 39. Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, will on this occasion hear the case. ’ At the first three trials the jury f were unable to agree. In no other . instance has the fourth trial of an accused person been ordered in tho

colony. A graphic picture of the battle around Mukden is) sent by. Router’s correspondent. Much, of the was hand-to-hand. Dead' sold |f*®« littered tlio streets and co.tir‘t-ya'jfc? r ?' none .having been buried for ‘§olw days.. Twisted rifles were c\l e ry~ where.. Gruesome encounters yiap-- — peneu on every , hand, mercifully hidden by the smoke of 100 great guns,, ami tho sweep of a blinding duststorm, 'Reserve troops ‘dug holes for themselves in the ground, as wide apart as possible, to escape the shranncl fire, .The evacuation of tho Sliaho was stupendous. It involved hundreds of miles of telegraphs,, railways, military roads, and complete Red .Cross toiyng. ' , ,