NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1526, 7 August 1905, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) STRATFORD, Saturday.

I District Judge Haseiden was ocI copied late lust night with a case I in which Emma E. Spinner, a married woman, sued Joseph BloomI field, farmer, for £2OO damages ‘for alleged slander. Plaintiff, who was I ii\dng apart from, her husband, took a milking contract from Bloomfield, ana with her four sons and’ two I'daughters lived in a cottage aa defendant’s, property, also keeping a boarder, "a man formerly employed lon her husband's farm. It .is alI legod that defendant impiuted improper conduct between plaintiff, and I the be aider. The jury awarded £SO damages. WELLINGTON, Saturday. I The body of the man found drowned in the harbor on July ?,S has ‘ been I identified asi that of William A. John-' ston, whoso parents reside at Roslyn WESTPORT, Saturday. The .subscription list for shares in I the Westport-Stopk'ton Company opened yesterday, and ijiet with considerable enthusiasm. The first ap» plicants include some forty residents of Millcrton and the miners working in the adjoining colliery of the Westport Coal Company. iA large deposit of the best Admiralty coal has been 'Proved to exist in ,the property by mining Operations on Stockton .Company’s west boundary.

CHRISTCHURCH. Saturday.Nineteen young men were before the Gpurt, to-day on remand, charged, one with keeping a. common gaining house, and ''-the others with frequenting. if 11 pleaded guilty. Whit-tie, keeper of the house, was fined £SO, ancl the others- £3 each, all with imprisonment alternatives. The cases were the result of a police raid last week.. DUNEDIN, Saturday.

'A meeting at K-aitiamgat'a last night resolved to ask the member for the. district to support,maklng a main issue on the Bible in schools referendum,, the question, ■“ Shall the existing system of national education be maintained?''