LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1672, 13 February 1906, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) Blenheim, laßt night. Recently the Hospital Board received loaders for a new hospita 1 , lowest of which was JGIIOOO. This being double the amount of funds available no tender was accepted. To-day the Board resolved to call for fresh tenders, and insert a provision in the contract providing for the cessation of work in the event of no further resources being available when £SOOO now in hand is spent. A movement is on foot to ereot a monument to mark Capt. Cook's landing place at Ship Cove, in Queen Charlotte’s Sound. It was at this spot Cook hoisted the Union ,Taok and formally took possession of the South Island.

Owing to the exceedingly rough weather in the Straits disorganising shipping movements, Blenheim and the rest of Marlborough has been without a Welling" ton mail since Thursday. The mail is now aboard a river steamer, whioh has been stuck up outside the Wairau bar, and will not be sorted till to-morrow. The delay has caused much inconvenience

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At the Supreme Court to-day the grand jury found true bills in every case, Arthur Henry WoolstoD, wbo came up for sentence on a charge of entering , a dwelling with intent to commit a crime and causing actual bodily harm was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Henry Marsella, who had pleaded guilty in the Lower Court to a charge of breaking, entering and theft, was eenteneed to two years. In the case of Wm. John Kmley. charged with assault with intent at Kaikoura, the jury found a verdict of not guilty alter two hours’ retirement, and prisoner was discharged. The ease bad been tried at ths previous sessions, when the jury disagreed. -