MEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1523, 3 August 1905, Page 1

MEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Association.)

[ CHRISTCHURCH, last night. In the Supreme Court Whi. Powers was found guilty of gross criminal assault on a little girl. Sentence was deferred.

DUNEDIN, last night. | Art the annual meeting of the Chalmers Licensing Bench an the applications for licenses, were granted, except that for the Botanical Ga rdens, in which the applicant asked for an adjournment. AUCKLAND, last night. The W’aihi Company has declared' a dividend of three shillings per share, involving’a distrihjutio'n of £75,000 mal.iny the total dividends paid £1,502,8.96. ■ ’

The ArbiCraiion' Court in flic toil penalties totalling ’£6s anil costs for a breach of the award by, underpaying firemen. In McDonald,J;P,, wan fined £lO an.l Costs, £2 Os, at the Police Court for a breach of the electoral law in signing his name as a witness to a woman’s" claim for -enrolment as aii elector withgut- bearing her declare the same. There was no evidence of intention of fraud on the piarb of defendant, but Mrs Newman had gone out of the colony on a holiday toAVstralia on April 17 th," and ' the Claim was presented with her signature on 'Jiu no sth, at the same time as her husband in person declared his own Claim before McDonald. NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. A young man named Wiley, art employee at Keily.’s sawmill, on ' the Mokaw river, was killed yesterday, by a tree falling on him while lie. was bush!" tilling., He belonged to tip innate. WELLINGTON, last night. Sir Joseph Wand states That •' the Civil Service Superannuation Bill, which includes officers of the Post, and Telegraph Department has been completed/ and has been agreed ‘to by Cabinet. Sir J. Ward is forward tig . copies "to the Various Departments affected, so that they, may have .an opportunity of ■ considering proposals of such! importance to them