NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1730, 23 April 1906, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

I (Per Press Association.) Auckland, April 21. In the Police Court, Peter Wilson, an old man, was committed for trial on a charge of bigamy. The evidence of the Registrar of marriages showed that accused applied for a license on March 23rd, 1903. He described himself as a widower, and a marriage took place the next day. In September of the same year accused obtained a license for marriago with Annie Brennan, and a marriage took place in the house of the Rev. Laycock The Rev. Gillam, who celebrated the first

marriage, said ho had no doubt as to the identity of accused. Annie Peni I son deposed that on tho occasion of the alleged illegal matriage accused told her he was a widower. Accused said his first wife had left him for three years, and he thought she was I dead. He reserved his defence. Wairoa, April 21. A fire commenced at 4 45 yesterday afternoon in a goods shod at North Clyde, owned by the Wairoa Mohaka Shipping Syndicate. The shed contained forty bales of wool belonging Ito W. Goldstone, Frasertown, twentyeight bales W. Boothman, Buatikura; six bales R. B. Sem, Mohaka; sixteen bales of flax, M. F. Bourke; general stores of the settlers of TuriI roa and Mohaka, and a dumping plant valued at over £7OO. The insurances are not known. Only a few piles are left. Ihe fire is still smouldering. The Harbor Board Wharf adjoining was saved with difficulty. Nelson, April 21. During tho past few days enormous numbers of fish, resembling sardines or small herrings, have been shoaled on the mud flat between Stoke and Richmond. Millions have been put down as manure, and thousands have been salted by housewives, or eaten fresh. The fish is very similar to the “ Picton bloater,” having only a backbone, and they have never before been • seen this side ol ■ the French Pass. Flounders, barracouta, and other fish have also been similarly shoaled up, and some think a marine disturbance remotely or directly connected with the San Francisco cala- I mity caused it.