NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1630, 19 December 1905, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) Dargaville, Inst night. u Tho steamer Barooua, for th 0 Wairoa-Dargavillo-Helensvi lie sorvic 1 arrived yesterday after a passage o four days two hours. She is a smart passenger steamer, and was built last year at Newcastle at a cost of £6OOO. George Jordan, injured in Awalcino bush a week ago, diod last night at Kopuru hospital. Dr Collins amputated his leg yesterday, but deceased gradually sank and expired at 9 p.m. Auckland, last night.

Cyril Alexander Young, aged. L 4, whose parents reside in Rata street, Ponsonby, fell from a horse which he was riding without a saddle. Death was instantaneous. It is presumed his neck was broken.

A private cable records tho death of Dean Poley, of Temuka. Robert Leas, agedGl, died suddenly at his residence, Parnell. The Wnihi return for four weeks is ‘£59,1G0 from 24,603 tons. Ike total gold won to date is- £4,508,404. Royal Oak tributers obtained £7Ol from one ton of ore and 5431 b of picked stone. In the Supreme Court sentence of five years’ imprisonment was passed on Tom Albert Jackson, for attempted rape on a schoolgirl.

Blenheim, last night. A man named Earl Bealmen, a seaman on tho schooner Ronga, at Havelock, was arrested there last evening on a charge of stabbing Felix Ostman,' a shipmate, on Saturday night with a pocket knife, the result of a quarrel. Tho wound is in the left breast, and Ostman’s condition is serious.

Chrislohurok, last night. The Trades and Labor Council, as a result of addresses by local doctors, decided to appeal to tho affiliated unions for subscriptions for the estabishment of a consumptive sanatorium.

DunodiD, last night. Twenty-one pigeons, sent to Wellington on Thursday, wore liberated at Kandallah at 4.22 a.m. on Saturday. Ten of these reached Dunedin at 2.40 p.m. Saturday thus doing tho distance, 395 miles, in 10 hours 20 minutes, a record for the Dunedin to Wellington flight. The Upper Clutha Railway League has been constituted at Cromwell, with the object of bringing pressure to boar to carry the construction of the Otago Central line to Hawea. Tho New Zealand Portland Cement Company shows a profit for the year of £7297. It is proposed to pay a 7 per cent, dividend, absorbing £2IOO, and the balance will be carried to profit and loss, except £876, carried forward.