NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1822, 31 July 1906, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

I'IIKSS ASSOCIATION Dunedin, List night. Mes-rs Clourlay High., of Dundee, mo building to tho order of Messrs lluddnrt. Parker and Co. a stenruo of 5000 tons regibtoi', to bo delivered in Australia at tho end of 1907. Tho uoiv steamer, which will bo placed in tho intercolonial trade, will, it it understood, bo able to maintain sixteen knots over long distances, A cargo steamer to bo run in tho Australian intor-Stato trado is also in com so of building. Christchurch, last night. Tho Hon. J. 1). Ormond sued tho Railway Department for £'2ll 9', tho valuo of a bag and its contents lost on tho railway. Plaintiff arrived from Wellington at Lyttelton by steamer and placed two Uladstono bags in tho van of tho train, waiting on tho wharf and giving thorn in ohargo of a man in railway uniform, and travelled to Christchurch by tho same train, Ono bag bad not boon seon since. Mr Bishop, S.M., today gave judgment against Mr Ormond on the ground that provisions wove mado under the Railways Act that tho Government wore not responsible for passengers’ luggage unless it was checked. Plaintiff had not checked tho luggage and could not recover.

Wellington, last night,

Tho Supremo Court criminal sessions opened to day before tho Chief Justice. In his charge to tho Grand Jury nis Honor said there had boon no diminution in tho quantity of crimo in tho district. None of tho thirteen charges on the calendar, however, were serious, except perhaps one. There were, however, some charges that wore universal, and showed a depraved moral stato of those persons accused if tho evidoneo against thorn was to bo believed, charges which in tho old form of tho English indictment ought not to bo named among Christians. Sentences wero passod as follows Patrick Kearney, obtaining money by means of valueless cheque, four months; John William Lucas, burglary, niuo months ; William Joliu Lower, forgery and uttering, twelvo months; Percy Burt, theft, four months.

Mrs Harding’s private hotel and confectionery store, ono of Clock s buildings, Petone, was partially do* stroyed by firo early this morning. The contents woro insured for £250 in tho Stato ollics, and Clock’s buildings for £ISOO in tho New Zealand office. Tho inmates had a narro w escape.

Westport, last night. The bodies of three of the four men drowned on tho Karamea bar have now boen recovered. Transon’s remains wero found'yesterday. Foil ding, last night. Professor Kirk, Government biologist, purchased 2d tons of Northern Star potatoes on Saturday from Henry Burrell for distribution amongst the Maoris. These potatoes are portion of a crop yielding an average of 15 tons per aero on 10 acres, grown by Mr Burrell, and sprayed six times with tho Bordeaux mixture recommended by tho Agricultural Department.