LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1857, 11 September 1906, Page 3

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

PRESS ASSOCIATION Ohristchurob, last night. Georgina Franoia Brown, matron of a private nursiDg home, appeared before Mr V. Day, S.M., at the Police Court this morning, charged with manslaughter. Tho information alleged that on August 6;h, at Christchurch, by omitting and neglecting to provide a newly-born infant of one Clarence Bell Patterson with proper oare and attention, she caused tho death of the said infant, and was thereby guiliy of manslaughter. Accused was remanded for a week on bail.

New Plymouth, last night. A prisoner who esoaped from a gang at the Weßtem Park this afternoon wasi captured when making his way through th' town to-night. At an inquest on Robert Muscbamp, who shot himself at Waitara on Wednesday, a verdict was returned that death resulted from a gunshot wound self-in-flioted.

Hokitika, last night,

Es Mayor Mandel, in a letter appearing in to-day’s local paper, gives a full and reasonable explanation of the charges made by Mayor Michel against him at the Borough Counoil meeting on Friday last in regard to the town clerk’s offio?. The explanation gives a detailed account of tLewhole oiroumsttnees,and apparently exonerates Mr Mandel. Wellington, last night.

The Coroner held an inquest to-day concerning the death of Walter Bibbin, a recent arrival from South Africa, whose body was found in the bedroom of a hotel in the city. Medical evidence showed that death was the result of drinking oxalic acid. Deceased was financially embarrassed.

Auckland, last night.

A prisoner named Joseph Thompson, alias Handley, alias Cooper, escaped from Waiotapu on Sunday. He was last seen going in the direction of Galatea Thompson has a largo number of convictions against him, and at present was serving three years for breaking and entering at Palmerston North.