LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1639, 4 January 1906, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

' (p er press Association.) Christchurch, last night. L’ghtning during yesterday’s storm damage! tho Harbor Board a telephone at Adderloy Head signal station. It struck a t ill pine tree at Burwocd near Christ, church, and kindled a heap of dry branches at tho foot of tbo tree, the fire spreading to a neighboring; shed, which waa de* Bt At tho Magistrate’s Conrt to-day a ’ woman namad Aomo Cements was sentenced to six months imprisonment by Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., for using obscene language within hearing o persons in a public highway. During the height of yesterday s thunderstorm, what is stated to to a thunderbolt fell on tho beach at Redclifh, between Christchurch and Sumner. Wellington, last night. A special feature of the critniual rooords for Wellington during the year 1905, as entored through the Police Office and the Magistrate’s Court, is the decided drop in the number of bncst3 for drunKenneßS. During 1904 tho total number of cases 0 f drunkenness dealt with was 2106, of which 281 wero women, but dutiDg the year just closed there were 330 less arrests—lsß4 men and 192 women ; otherwise the oriminal lift was bcnviir than daring the previous year.