NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1529, 10 August 1905, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Association. Auokland, last night.

Frederick Simmonds, married, ngod 45 years, died last night in a padded cell at Mount Edeu gaol. He had boon romandsd on a charge of druukenmss, and suddenly beoamo violent, throwiog utensils about. He was placed in a padded cell and a doctor summoned, who found Simmonds in a state of collapse. Artificial respiration was tried, but war unsuccessful, Tho doctor pronounced lifo to bo extinct, His wife lives iu Noithern Wairoa, Dunodin, last night.

Between 1 and 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon burglars entered the house of Joonno Potter, a widow, during her ftbsouo, and .stole ovtr £SO worth of jewellery. David Millar, residing at Sawyoiß’ Boy was riding home on horseback laat ui bt and was knocked over by an olcotric car. His hip was damaged. Christchurch, last night,

Early this morning tho railway station at Kaiapoi was bruken into and tho safe dynamited. Burglars had drawn a luggage fcarrow to tho window under the platform verandah, and broke two panes of glass on each aicio of tho fastener, and thus gained an entrance. The thieves stole £l9, £5 of which was in oheques. The nearest house was some chains away. An explosion was heard st about 2 a,m., and the noiso of a vehiolo bciug driven through tho town in the oarly morning, but Ihe burglary was not suspected and no alarm was givou. Mr A. R. Atkinson will oontest Riccarton seat.

Mr J. Matthews, State forester, has written to tho Exhibition Committee that on his next visit he will meet tho Horticultural and Garden Committee, and discuss the best means of ob'aiuing native plants for tho Exhibition grounds, and the best Bobeme for establishing a fernery.) Argument in tho case of John Ross, con victed at the Supremo Court last week for betting from a buggy on the road at Plumpton Park, was heard befoie Mr Justioe Denmston to-day. Ooudbgl for the defence sought to show that u buggy was not a place wiihin the meaning of tho Act, but without calling on the prosecution his Honor ruled that accused had a circumscribed and defined area by tho use of the buggy, arid tho conviction must hold. A fine of £lO and costs (£5) was inflicted. In the Divorce Court Ephraim Waldron obtained a decree nisi against Catherine Ellm Waldron for adultery with Robert Stephen Sbackel. Costs were awarded against co respondent.