NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1871, 28 September 1906, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

I'RUSS ASSOCIATION Oam tru, last nigbt. John BrnroU, figort 08. living by himsolf at Duntroon, out hi 3 throat with a razor yo (o ilay, cud succumbod to bis rclf-in tl otod injury this m ruing. Brafoll wus suffering hopelessly from cancer, and was vo'y dospondout. E l.n P.vnn, ngrd 3G, tho wifo ol a surftioetnau at Windsor, dropped dead lußt evening, apparently from heart disease.

Dunedin, last night. Percival John Hughes, who bus been going round 0;ago towns prescribing mtdieino for fees, was Sued at tho lolioe Ceurt a maximum penalty of r£so, or thrro months’ imprisonment, for falsely representing himself as u doctor of modioino. Chief Doteoiivo Herbert said aooased was simply a fraud, who wont about the oouutry victimising pooplc. Wellington, last night. A deputation of master bakers of the oniony waited on tho Minister for Pubho Health tc-tay to urge that thovo should bo a definition of fancy bread, which does not requiro lo bo of tho full weight proscribed by the Aol, and also (hat all bakers’ establishments and shops where bread is sold should bo licensed. The Minister promised to inquire into the points raised, and said tho publio intoreßt must bo considered. Christchurch, last night.

Tho Exhibition Executive received the fails of lading to-day of 43 cases o ftatusry shipped por s>s. Ormuz from Naples, bciug a portion of tho Btatuary purchased by Sir Joseph Wa*d for d'eoralive purposes during bis vis’t to Romo. Ad tho price pal organise in New Zealand h’.vo botu communicated wdh the obj.-ct of giving orgsu recitals in iho Ex hibsion Coneort Had aud assisting at coamber ooncorts with organ rec tal?.

Auckland, last night. The gold returns ior Auckland district fjr tho past two i.nd a half wetki amount ! o 166,294. At the inquest on tho body of Tilson Em ; tb, dent ss, of Onehuogs, Mr Pond, Governmint analyst, reported there was no truce of poison in tho specimens submit od to him. Tho j ary found the morphia thoory had not been established, and that death was duo to diabetee.

New Plymouth, last night. An interesting and novel question relative to transfers of mortgages under the Land Transfer Act was the subject of argument in tho Supreme Courtyesterday. A mortgagee holding eeveial mortgages had sub-mortgaged tho same, and then, after rt gisiration oi tho latter dealing, bad executed a transfer of the moitgng'S, subjtet to such sub mortgage to a third person. Tho District Land Registrar refused to register the transfer of the mortgage made by the mortgagee, on the grouud that under section 94 of the Land Transfer Act, 1885, the sub mortgagee had become a transferee of tho mortgngoo’s powers, snd that tho sub-men tgag, o alone could transfer tbo mottgagee, Mr Justios Cocpor reserved bis decision, stating that the point, horn i.s (mpottanco, would be dcc’ded by the Appeal Court,