NEW ZELAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 150, 8 July 1905, Page 1

NEW ZELAND.

(Per press. Association.) Christchurch, lost night Obituary : Mr, G. U Moore, Btationowrier niTGlenmark, aged 92,'“pne pf the oldest settlers of ’Canterbury. . ■ . A’ public meeting last night, not largely attended. promoted by the Medioal Association of Christchurch, ail'd presided over by .the Mayor, passed a resolution, V .That.it ia.desiriable, that .a .ne.jy.sftn.atoruim’.ior the treatment of tuberculosis be 'e'riected 1 in North jCanterb'ury AistrjfSt V ; '"That a eo'fnmittee] oo’DSiatipg pf '.the ■Mayor of Christchureh,'"members of the Upper and .Lower. Houses, Chairman and members,and secret ary of tbe'Nortb Canterbury Hospital Board, North Canterbury aud'Ashburton United Charitable Board, North ’ ' Canterbury, Eduction Board; County fCounoil, "Boad end Town Boards, in the distriot of fhe North Can. terbury Hospital Board, regisiered medi. pal practitioners. in the distriot, editors of newspapers, ’ members of the Committees of' Norse Maude's consumptive camps, Bishops Julius and Grimes, representative clergy and a large number of loading citizens, male and femnle, be appointed, with power to add to.their number, to collect subscriptions and act in any other way necessary to carry the scheme into effect.” Greymo.uth, last night. George Bennett, engaged in gold-mining at Stillwater Creek, was -killed yesterday by a fall of earth. Bennett was 49 years of age, and leavos a wife and four children. Westport. last night. At the District Court William Joseph Williams, of Waimangaroa, ex-Justice of the Peace, was found guilty of indecent assault on a girl under 16, and was this morning sentenced by Judge Haselden to four years’ imprisonment. Counsel for the defence asked the Judgo to reserve a law point under tho well-known easo, Bex v. Blight, for the Supreme Couit, but the Judgo refused, and said counsel had his remedy by application to the AttorneyGeneral. In a previous indictment against Williams for a similar offence, the Judge directed the jury to return a verdiot of not guilty, as the depositions disclosed an attempt at a major offence, and the proceedings were statute barred.