NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1474, 7 June 1905, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Presa Association.) Dunedin, last night. At tho annual meeting of tbo Dunodin Licensing Committee oil the renewals were granted. Tho polioo report ettitod with regard to one huuso that there were occasional iudioutione of after-hours’ trading, and that one or two other plaooa required atriot supervision owing to tho ohuraoter of the customors. Invoroargill, lost night. During tho night the promises of Jae. Grant, tobaoooniai, Doe street, were brolton into and ilB in nionoy and about 4-30 worth of pipes and tobacco stolen. Bntrance was effected by brooking a large j pauel in the buck door with uu axe. Wostport, lastnigbt. I The launch Kuramoa (lato tho Hnurk) in tow of tho a.s. Oreti from Picton to Wostport was left at Xotaranui Bay, owing to Che launch towing lludly aud shipping water. . i .^.5 Ximaru, last night. The Supremo Court opened this morning. Andrew Nelson and John Wilson, both old offenders, were sentenced to aevoD yearn each for forgery. Joseph Morris, for breaking and unt.'iing, received Bix moDtbb’ sentence.

Wellington, last night.

Fines of ss, with £3 lOscosts, wcro, imposed this morning by the Stipendiary Magistrate in three cases in which shopkeepers Wci'O charged with keeping piemises open contiary to the Shops ana Officoe Act. Dr ’Finlay, who apponrcd ft r the Labor Department, said ouly half tl e Europeans and none of the Chinese shopkeepers wore complying with the. law which the Depur mi uc was determined to enforco.

Mr Galbtilith has been chosen manage: of tile New Zealand Rugby football team on its Australian visit.

Ada Jewett, a young woman employed at Petono Woollen MUIb, was struck by a train ut the railway crossing near the mill, her collarbone, arm; and ankle being fractured, and internal injuries BustaiDod. Her condition is serious.

Mr J. G. Woolley, the prohibition ora* tor, arrived last night on the invitation o f the liov. Frank Isitt, bis aim being expressed as, “No interference with general politics, but to heip to bring about a square issue'between the Christian Chm cb and the liquor trade.” He says he has nothing to do with the man who takes his liquor into his own house, his quarroi being with the saloons.

Mr Willis, M.H..R. for Wanganui, "returned by the mailboat. In au interview, he referred to tho now process of making bricks of Taranaki ironstitid by means of special patented liquid, which completely solidities them. A small company iB boing formed to take up a coulpe of miles of beach, asking for no subsidy: from the Government.