LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1671, 10 February 1906, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

.(Per Press Association.)' Invercargill, last night A ease in connection with Tattersall’s sweep was heard here to-day, T. T. Lumsden suing Mrs Nora Cavanagh for £SO. Mrs Cavanagh won £4OOO, and Lumsden, who apparently sold her the winning ticket, made a demand for £IOO commission for identifying her at the bank as the person entitled to receive tbo money. She promised to pay it, but at the bank a receipt for £SO was eigned by Lumsden in full satisfaction. The Magistratehold that on his own svidecct plaintiff bad no legal claim, and gave judgment against him with £4 7s 6d costs to defendant. Aftc-r a mest extraordinary summer seosen, marked more by sunless woatber and low tempora'uro than rain, the conditions are now oxco’.lcnt, albeit with a singular persistence of south to oast winds. The potato disease has been encouraged by the absonco of sunshine and the continual wclnofs of the soil, but it is not goneral, and it is hoped will bo stayed if the present conditions continue. Now Plymouth, last night. No alarm has been caused in Taranaki by the reported coilapso of the butter matkef, and ft is claimed that the market could stand a further drop without bringing the avorage for the soason below the

anticipations of the opening of the season

and the roturus of tho part few yca-a. The experience of three of the past four years has been that buttor shipped in February has arrived home on a rising market about

110 s, and it is hoped that there mayyot be a similar recovery. On the whole not the slightest apprehension is felt, and it is generally stated that too much of a scare had been created out of a drop that Lau-t have b;en anticipated. Christchurch, last night. Tbo four-year-old and only son of Mr H. T. Lance, of Horsley Downs, was found drowned at the fountain opposite Horsley Dowob hous9 at noon to-day, Both parents are away for a holiday. Welliogton, last night. At a meeting of tho Colonial Executive of tho Farmers’ Union to-day it was decided that the levies bo made tho same as la=t year.

Vice-Admiral Sir Wilmott Fawke and officers of tbo squadron were guesis at a ball given by the Navy Leugue in tho Town Hall to-night. There was a very large attendance. At the Supreme Court to-day, Charles Philip was acquittod of a charge of indecent assault.