LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1862, 17 September 1906, Page 3

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

TRUSS ASSOCIATION Auckland, last night

Captain Stowor, who was injured recently by an aeoident on board tho Ayr. shire, died last night. A firo in Groy stroet last night rosultod in a two-storoy house owned by Rev. W. E. Lush, and oeouplod by Mr Muhor, boing gutted. A train nooidont ooeurrod nt Epsom on Saturday after tho Pnkurauga Hunt Club race?. It appears that a oar was nt n standstill when another oamo from bohiud and dashed into it An tldorly man who was sitting ou a sand box in tho stationary oar I was thrown ro tho ground, but save for a slight sca : p wound was not othorwiso injured. The passengers in both oars were I considerably shaken, and tho apron and platform of the roar oar was much damage f.

Waipawa, Inst night. A verdict of nooidoutsl death was re

turned at ttio inquest on Franklin Porini, killed while shuutiug at Pukohon on tho 4 h inst. A rider was added that tho Railway Department be recommended

that no men bo Bent ns assistants on uigkt trains entrusted with lamps unless they have proved ellicront in signalling. Oarnatu, last night.

At tho annual moetiog of tho North Otago Farmers’ 00-oporativo Association tho annual report was adoptod. It mentioned that tho paid up oapital had boon increased from £l3 677 to £17.487. A dividend of 7 per cent, was declared. A bonus of 2.J- per oent. is to bo paid on purchases of drapery, ironmongery, and grcoories ; a refund of 5 per cent, commission is to bo made on sales of grain, and 20 por oont. ou horses, etc. A sum of £869 10s 01 was to be carried to tho reserve. After apportioning other sums tho balanoo was carried forward, and the halanoo available for distribution waa L 4092,

Wellington, last night,

An inquest was hold ou Saturday afternoon on the body of a man fuund at Wadostown on Friday morniDg. There is oonsiderablo doubt rrgarding the doooasod’s ilentity. Arthur Pennymau, of Wiilowbank boardinghouse, believes the body to be that of John Mailing, last sern alive on May 19. h. Henry Siarr, a s man, is of opinion that deoeased is I'red Brown, who disappeared from Otago Buffet, Wellington, about a month ago. A verdiot was returned that dsoeased, name unknown, oommitted suicide by oultiDg his throat with a razor. Deceased’s body bears latoo marks of an anchor, heart aod cross on tho left arm, and a thistle on the right arm; also an anohor on the book of the left hand,