NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1743, 8 May 1906, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

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Jamos Stuatt, 71 years of nge, on inmale of tba OKI Mon’s llotno, diod yo» tf relay. lie choked wbilo eating an orange given him by a viri or.

Gorp, last right. A shooting ollray occurred on Saturday. A Chinaman uarned Sen Cboy fired four shots with n revolver at another China man, Shin Boon, wounding him in tho leg, hut not soriously. Tho allair was the outcome of an old feud. Auckland, 1 ant night.

John Fi zgerald, aged 78, a Coromandel prospictor, miss'ng siuoo Friday, was found dead yesterday at tho bottom of an old overgrown air shaft, His neck wos biokon, and tho body otherwise badly mutilated.

Wellington, last night, Fred. Marshall, oonduotor of an elootric ca l- , Bustaioed oououssion of the brain through being struck on tho head by a tramway polo while leaning from the top of a double-decker

Invercargill, last night. At a meetmg of the Eiucat'onal Institute a report was submittid that tho obairman of a oountry committee had apparently, with the sanction of the majority cf members, taken the i xtreme step of trying to suspend a thscher. Such action being seriously prrjudicial to his reputation, it was resolved to forward the report (o tho New Z'aland Institute, in order that legal advice might be obtained, and authorities given for the local Institute to take proceedings at law.