LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1812, 19 July 1906, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

PRESS ASSOCIATION Ohristohuroh, last night, An old age pensioner named Caldwel

dropped dead in the Ohristohuroh Hospital

to-night. He had been sent up from Lyttelton under modioal orders, and died in the corridor on reaohing the institution, Henry L. Hamilton was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having at. Wellington forged cheques for £24 15s.

Alexander MoKenzie, billiard markor, was also committed for trial on a charge of having committed perjury in stating in evidence in a case heard on May 29th that ho had never made any bets since he beoarne a billiard marker. Two private deteotivos stated that on April 17thi they

saw aeenEod on the Christchurch racecourse receive something from differenl people and mako entries in a book.

Tho till taken from tbo tobacconist shop at Eangiora was found by the polios in a backyucd, also two sixpenoea supposed to have been part of the cash taken by tho buiglars on Monday night. DunediD, last night. John Sharp was oommittod for trial to-day on a charge of having unlawfully assaulted a girl under 12 years of age. Bail was allowed. The evidenoo was of a revolting nature, A suggestion wns thrown out at a meeting of tho Hospital Trustees that tho now wing of the hospital should ba named Seddon wing as a memorial to the late Premier,