LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1619, 5 December 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Pgr Prana Association. Dunedin last night.

At a meeting of the Dunedin Presbytery it was mentioned that the late Francis Henderson, of Broad Bay, had bequeathed £SOO to the Presbytery for the Presbyterian Orphanage, £IOO to Deacon’s Court, North-east harbor, the proceeds to be devoted to the sustenation fund, and that valuable property at Broad Bay passes to Dunedin Hospital on the death of an aged sister. .The Presbytery passed a suitable motion. A resolution was passed record* mg the loss the church had sustained by the death of the late William Hutchison and William Martin, both office-bearers of the church. ’ Bain which fell in the afternoon rather interfered with the final meetings of candidates to night, but still all were largely attended, and the keenest interest is taken in to morrow’s contests. Open-air meet ings had to be abandoned. The no-license advocates and the trade also held final demonstrations, the latter being held in front of the Town Hall. It is anticipated that the results of the polling for the election may bo known by 9 p.m., but as to the local option poll these are expected to be late under the new system of count ing,

Auckland, last night.

The trial of Wm. Reid, fisherman, who pleaded not guilty in the Supreme Court to the charge of having a'tempied on August 13th to murder Mary Kate Donovan, and to the alternative count of having done her actual bodily harm, was concluded to»day. After a brief retirement the jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and accused was discharged. A youth named William John Steele, residing with his parents at Ponsonb.y, accidentally shot himself with a revolver at 8 o’clock this morning, and is in a critical condition. A woman named Maria Alexander, married, was admitted to the hospital today suffering from the effects of pho3> phorous poisoning. She is progressing favorably. The volcano at Savaii was still very . active when the Hauroto called at Samoa, and the lava has done considerable damage to adjoining property. Natives are now relying on European food, their plantations being nearly all destroyed. A severe drought ct Tongß is assuming a serious aspect. There is a great falling off in frait shipments. Good rains have fallen at Haapai and Vavau. Christchurch, last night.

The hearing of the action, Miss Jessie Graham, of Auckland, against Dr. Herz, wherein the plaintiff claims £SOO general aud £274 special damages, was continued at tho Supreme Court to-day. Defendant gave evidence that the operation to stra'ghten plaintiff’s club foot was properly carried out according to the best methods of Professor Lorenz, under whom he had worked in Germany, and the foot | was properly attended to. Afterwards gangrene, whioh set in, was not due to excessive tightness of the plaster cast used to keep the foot in position after it had been twisted round, but to stoppage in an artery. The ease was unfinished when the Court adjourned until Thursday. At the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court today, Wm. Barzer was committed for trial on a charge of perjury by swearing that he had personally served a summons at Lyttelton on February 24, knowing suoh assertion to be false.'