NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1661, 30 January 1906, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

Par Pratts Association,

Dargaville, laet night,

Thomas Henry Nioholis has been summoned to appear on a oharge of Arson ia connection with a fire on December 24. He ODd MoCoy will be tried to-morrow. Greymoutb, last night. The Bank of New South Wales shipped to-day £20.000 worth of gold. Judge Haselden dismissed the legal points raised in the oase of Pankhurst v. Hoskings. An appeal will be taken to the Supreme Coutt. - _

Wellington,-last night.

Speaking during his visit to Pahiatua district, the Premier said that during the forthoomieg session of Parliament proposals would be submitted for a remission of taxation on the necessaries of life. The Premier denies that Mr Macintosh, general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, is leaviog the institution owing to a difference of opinion oonoerning the Government's banking aooount. Mr P. W. Robertson, of Wellington, the Rhodes scholar for New Zealand, who went to Oxford last Ootober, has won the open scienoe scholarship at Trinity College of the value of £BO. The winning of tb e scholarship is considered at Oxford to be a greater Bobolastio feat then winning the Rhodes scholarship. . John Frederiok Crook, charged with escaping from Mount Cook prison works, when BerviDg throe years sentence, was to day sentenced to six months’ further im prisonment for escaping, and a'so three months oonourrent with the present sentence for the theft'of clothes subsequent to his escape. A number of sawmillers and others who have been floating timber rafts down the Wanganui river without a license, pleaded guilty at the Stipendiary Magistrate Court to day, and as the prosecution did not press for a heavy penalty, esoaped with fines of 20s each aDd costs.