NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1808, 14 July 1906, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

(Fez Prem Association.)

Auckland, last night.

The detectives have arrested a man named Partcn, charged with having committed burglary and the theft of £355, in notes and cash, and nearly £SO worth of jeweller, at Glenalvon boardinghouse. All tho notes, £3O in cash, and a quantity of jewellery have been recovered. The stolen property belonged to a Blenheim station owner named Young. Accused was brought beforo the Stipendiary Magistrate and remanded. Tho Tairua Broken Hills mine return is -100 tons for £1520; Golden Belt, 310 tons for £IOOO. Hastings, last night.

Fifty acres of the Primley estate, a mito from town, were yesterday sold fo a Hastings syndicate for fruit planting, at £BO an acre. . A school is to bo erected at Pakipaki, where Borthwick’s freezing works carry on operations.

Wellington, last night. Alfred Miners, for breaking and entering at Hastings, was sentenced to two yearn’ imprisonment with hard labor.

Wanganui, last nigh*.

Tho Herald draws atrentiun to the inisiako mido iu a provious issue as regards the death rato last year in New Zsaland hospitals. The lowest mortality in proportion ta tbo number of cases dea't with was at the Thames, tho deaths being odd iD 25, Waimato one iu 24, Wanganui one in 17- . m A fire occurred this morning in Taupo quay, which destroyed the boat-budding shop of Robert Law, and the moulders’ shed of tbo Wanganui Bash emd Door Factory. Thorn wore no insurance?. Law lott several boats and plenks. The police this morning found tbe upptr portion cf an infant’s body in a crotk, wbero yesterday iho lower portion was found. It is thought (o to tho body of a newly-born infant, though dead about six wreks. A portion of clothing was found on the romains discovered this mornlrg, Christchurch, last night.

Tho Coroner's jury to-day returned a vordict of suioido whilst in a stato of unsound mind in tho case of McCutohecD, iho man who shot himself at Lincoln yes torday, aftor being arrestod cn a charge of forgory, and whilo waiting to be married.

Ashburton, last night,

One cf the largest deals in property which has taken place in this district for seme time has been computed, Messrs Niooll Bros , meat exporters, having purchased from W. P. Kollotk, tho Maronau estate, containing 6057 acres of egricut tural and pastoral country, with 8030 owes and waking plant, as a going concern,

Dunedin, last night,

Tho reeponeo ol tho public to the Farquharscn fund has been so hr arty as lo fully provide for paying tho passage cf Mr Ferquhareon, the Rhodes scholar, and a'so for his maiutonance and comfott at Oxford until ho cm draw on the fund left by Mr Cecil Rhodes. It was resolved to tngrgs a eecond-olass passage for Mr Fuiquharscn by the Faparoo, and provide for his outfit. Tho Governor has been asked to be present at the presentation on tho 25tb,