LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1839, 21 August 1906, Page 3

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

I'EESS ASSOCIATION Dunedin, last night At tho Supremo Court to day John Sharp was found guilty of iadecont assault on a young girl, and Bob?. Mattbowson Gooch pleaded guilty to a similar offence, sentence in each cbho be'ng deferred, Edgar Turner was found guilty of forgrry with a strong recommendation to mcro.y on account cf the small sum involved arid of the man’s large family. Prisoner bad cabled to a firm in Sydney in the name cf a partner in tho firm asking that £ls be forwarded, and when the cable authority oame back ho secured the mmey. Dunedin, last night.

At a meeting of the Reserves Conservation Society the secretary reported that he had esesrtained it had boen decided to erect two large hoardings north and south of the new railway statit-n, on which to exhibit advertisi mrnts, O.ie will bo 300 ft long end 10ft in height abovo the ornamental fence, whilo the other wi 1 be 150 ft long. It was resolved that a meat emphatic protect against tbo adoption of such a course be forwardol to tho Efoo. M nisler for Railways, and that tbo City Council be approached and ibi aid invoked id endeavoring to prevent tho inflicting oi such a barbarity on the community.

During the past week returns have bsen reported from 03 dredges, the total yield being lC6lcz ISiwt 4gr, or an averega oi 27iz per dredge.

Osmaru, last night

A largo meeting of employers was hold to-night, at which it was decided to form a braAioh of tho New Z a'and Employers’ Federation for North Otago. A committee was set up to draft a constitution to bo Bufcm tted at a future meeting.

Mosterttn. last night,

The Rev. J. N. Buttle, srcritary of the Wesleyan Foreign Mission Fund, to-day leceived iotimation that Mis R. D. Nof worthy, who recently died at Blenheim, had bequeathed £IOO each to the Wesleyan Fore'gn Mission Fund and Wesleyan Home Mission Fond.

Greymoulh, last night. The ooal exports for the week onding Saturday wore! —State mine 0058 tons 6owt, Biunner and Tynoside 798 tons 7owt, Blackball 1623 tons Bswt, total 5477 tons 16cwt; coke 28 tons, bricks lo tODS 19cwt.