NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1489, 24 June 1905, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) _ Napier, last night. At the annual meeting of the A. and P. Society the balknce-shoet showed'fbat the operations of last year resulted in a profit of £340, the period under review being the best in the history of the Society. The membership now exceeds one thousand. ■Wellington, last night.

Mr Justice Edwards, this morning sentenced John Hassell, an old offender, to two years’ for forgery ; Charles Mack to two years’ for-theft. A young woman named Morris; who left, her: child- on the doorstep of business premises, where it was found by the'poliCe, was admitted to two years’ probation, it being shown that she had watched until the police took tho child away. . -, The Compensation Court is still occupied with tho Tawaha estate case, whioh is being resumed by the Crown under the Land for Settlement Act. Tho case for the owners k of the property haß not yet closed. -•- •- . Seventeen persons, including four females, were charged at tho Magistrate’s Court this morniDg with a breach' of the Electoral Act by signing their names as witnesses of claims for enrolment without seeing the signatures written. All pleaded guilty, and urged that the offence was committed through; ignorance, without felonious intent. Mr Myors, Crown Prosecutor, said tho caseß were brought as a warning to the public against the laxity in attesting signatures. All tho defendants wore convicted, and (ordered to pay costs, the Magistrate pointing out that the maximum (penalty for the offence was 450. DunediD, last night. The report of the sub-oommittee appointed.by the Institute of Accountants to enquire and report ro recent examinations, in which only two out of 86 candidates passed, has been published, Tho committee conclude that the alteration in the personnel of the Australian Board of Examiners has resulted in an unsatisfactory method of marking and conception of the standard of efficiency required, and recommend the appointment of a paid permanent Board of Examiners in Australia, or examination in practical branches in England. In a supplementary report they go further, and recommend the Council to face tho question of whether or not New Zealand should continue the connection with the’Australasian soheme of examina tion.

Auckland, last night. Herbert Derain, aged 11 years, died in the surgery of Dr Maurice Purohas after an operation for a nose trouble. Chloroform was administered, and the growth removed. The boy recovered consciousness, but a few minutes later bis breathing ceased. Efforts to restore respiration failed. . At the inquest on the lad Deram, death was; attributed by three medical men to the action of chloroform on the re3piratory centre of the brain, the child being in. delicate health. A verdict of misadventure was returned. The Premier has received information that Mr Frank Dyer, of tho firm of Bannatyno and Co., Wellington, merchants, has been appointed Greek Consul at Wellington. Tho Premier leaves Auckland this afternoon for Wellington, via Now Plymouth, accompanied by Mrs and Miss Seddon, who arrived this morning from Sydney by the steamer Ayrshire, having spent an extremely pleasant holiday. Mr Seddon transacted no public business to day.