NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1685, 28 February 1906, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, last night. On Sub-Inspector Black’s last appearance in the Auckland Police Court before proceeding to Dunedin, Mr | Lundon, solicitor, and Mr Kettle, i S.M., expressed regret at his departure. Mr Kettle said Mr Black had discharged his duty honorably and straightforwardly, and in nearly every case efficiently. He would have liked to have seen Mr Black promoted, D.unedin, last night. The Bruce No-License 'League in? tend nominating a new committee, which, it is thought, will be returned unopposed, Tho City Council came a cropper in the Police Court this morning, when it proceeded against motorists using tho tram track. The discovery was mado that thoro was no by-law dealing with tho olfonce,

Invercargill, last night. I When the Supreme Court opened tho Crown Prosecutor intimated that thoro woro no indictments. The registrar presented to Judgo Donniston a pair of whito gloves, remarking that it was four years since a similar presentation was made to his Honor by the local Bar. The Crown Prosecutor, congratulating Judge Donniston, said it had not fallen to the lot of any other New Zealand judge] to have the same experience. His Honor remarked that it was a matter for groat satisfaction to find in a large and prosperous district such asluvercargill wasjhe centre of, there had been for throe months froodom from serious crime.