NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1552, 7 September 1905, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

,'(Per Press Association,.') Auokland, last night. A determined suioide has occurred at Helensville. A farm laborer named Duncan had been in ill health for some time. He went .into the titree, taking h*s employer’s shotgun, which he placed over his heart. He pushed the trigger with a stick. The affair was discovered when deceased was missed and a search instituted. At the inquest a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. Deceased has relatives in England. For the position of principal of'the now training college at Auckland, the Education Board has received 14 apj plications from New Zealand, seven from Australia and the Islands, and 49 from England. Details of the last not yet having arrived, selection has been deferred for some weeks. Thameß, last night.

Important developments continue to be reported from the Waiotahi mine, where to-day was secured the largest haul of gold-bearing quartz reported for some time.' Six hundred pounds’ weight of splendid stone was obtained, of which 1501 b came from the reef at a low level. Shares which six months ago were quoted at 16s are now worth 795. ,

Napier, last night. -$ At the Supreme Court Thomas Williams, alias Wilsen, and Roberts were sentenced to five years for criminal assault. The Judge said he felt tempted to order floggings. Miria Tawera was admitted to 12 months’ probation for perjury. It had been shown she lied at the instigation of her uncle. New Plymouth, last night.

In connection with the Richmond bankruptcy, Edgar Watt, land agent, has served Govett, solicitor for bankrupt, and George, a creditor in the estate, with writs claiming £SOOO damages in each case for alleged slander.

Oamaru, last night. A meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association decided to erect a memorial cairn on Sebastopol Hill (Totara estate) to the memory of the late Mr Thomas Brydone, general manager of the New Zealand and Australasian Land Company, who was one founder of the frozen meat industry of this colony.