HEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1853, 6 September 1906, Page 1

HEW ZEALAND.

I'UESS ASSOCIATION Auckland, yesterday

Mr Kottlo, S.M., gtivo judgment in the cases of selling indecent postcards against Barney Bnrripp. lie lield tlmt certain cards were clearly libidinous, intended to have an indecent, immoral, and ohsence effect, anti calculated to have a pernicious influence in depraving, demoralising, and debauching the minds of persons, especially boys and girls, into whose hands they might come, besides prejudicing good morals As defendant had previously been lined Tf>, a nominal penalty of os and costs was inllieted in each ease.

Christchurch, yesterday

A lire broke out at 10.30 last night in the ollice premises of the Crown Boot Company, owned by P. J. Dolacour, and occupied by Floriuicc, Thompson and Co., indent agents. The room was gutted. The building was insured for AEOOO. Eltham, yesterday.

An Association football representative match played yesterday at Kaponga, between Taranaki and Auckland, resulted in a win for Auckland by three goals to one

Wellington, yesterday

The Acclimatisation conference opened its sittings here to day. A proposal that hotelkeepers and clubs be compelled to take out licenses to deal in game was rejected. Opinions were expressed adverse to shooting ducks from cylinders. The twenty locomotives with tenders, which Messrs Brice Bros., of Thames, have contracted to build for the Railway Department, arc to bo delivered within three years. The amount of the firm’s tender was nearly 4-1-10,000, being at the rate of something less than JMOOO per engine All the locomotives will be of the four-cylinder balanced compound typo, similar to the two engines made at Addington, and now running on the HurunuNßluH’ section.