NEW SEAL AND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1483, 17 June 1905, Page 1

NEW SEAL AND.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, last Dight.

John James Hinder, charged with etnblezzleraent of £62 from Hellaby and Co. was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment.* -

In the Supreme Court three executors in the will of the late William Adams were allowed five per cent commission on the realisation of. the esiate. The estate, valued at sixty thousand pounds, was bequeathed to four children and their off spring till the latter reaobed 21 years. It was then to revert to the ostbblished High Church of Scotland, Paisley, for charitable purposes. The executors are Jeasio Prime, Jane Potter (two daughters), and Mary Fulton.

Thames, last night. At the inquiry into the origin of the fire at the Briuu Born hotol,- by which two men were suffocated, no evidence was given aa to how the fire commenced. Two men who left the premises and subsquently re-entered the hotel by the window after closing time, accounted for their movements satisfactorily. The evidence was that the fire commenced outside the building at the head of the fire esoapo steps. Palmerston North, last night.. In the Supreme .Court, W. J. Short was sentenced to twelvn months for perjury.. When sentence was pronounced, the mother of the prisoner, who was in Court, was seized with a fit, and had to be removed. Flanagan, one cif the viotims of the acci- 1 dent yesterday iB suffering from a fracture of the left orbit, a severe scalp wound, a contused Shoulder aud severs concussion He recovered consciousness late last night, but it will be some days before ho is out of danger. B. Cbondeler sustained a transverse fracture of the right tbigb, and Mibb Brayshaw a broken ankle. The two latter, with the remaining sufferers, are doing well. Dunedin, last night. • In the Divorce Court, in the ease of Charlotte Hurt v. Henry Hart, adjourned from yesterday, a decree nisi was granted, to be made absolute after 1 three months, l petitioner to have the custody of the child. Despondent, who was oonvicted at the last sitting of the Supreme Court for perjury, was proved to have led an immoral life. I Wellington, last night, r In connection with the butter freights’ controversy, the New Zealand and South I African Steamship Company announces ; I that it has made a further reduction ,iri the rate of freight from New Zealand ports to I Bristol, Harry, Cardiff, Liverpool, ManI cheater and Glasgow by their service of steamers, running under oontract with the Government, and is now prepared to carry butter at fd per pound. This brings the freight down to tho level of the freight I from Australia, arid is S-16tbs of a penny 1 lees than the oontract just made between

the BhippiDg companies and the Dairy As soclation.