HEW K&ALAKD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1916, 27 October 1906, Page 4

HEW K&ALAKD.

I'll 1C SB ASSOCIATION Auckland, Inal i ij. lit. 'information wnn received by tlio local police Iroiu YVniheko yesterday that a mini annual Jackson, who was onin ii,-ming at VVaiheko, wan supposed :.o havn been drowned. JLo wont out in a skill' on Handily afternoon, ami when some distauco iroiu tho slioro suddenly disappeared. Hie cap ami one of liio oar« of tho skill’ driftod nslioro, and search iuuow boing made for tho body, Tho Manapoim, iroiu Cook Islands, brought 25 ifinmlors, in charge of the .chief Ainkoa Haniolu, bound for tho exhibition, taking material with them to erect a native house on the exhibition grounds, also materia! for hat and mat making. Tho same steamer brings for the exhibition a beautiful Lift's canon inlaid with pearl shell, and presents from tho native men to the Governor, ITemier, and Native Minister.

Hastings, last night. Tho body of James liragg, a <l uar " tor'Caste, who with Albert Webbio was drowned at Waimarauia on Wednos-* day, was found yesterday afternoon two miles from tho sccno of tho acoidoiit Gobbio’s body has not yet been recovered.

Wellington, last night. The Chief Justice tins moming'imposed the iolloiviug seutoucea : Ernest Taylor, foiging and uttering, nine months ; Matthew ltd ward Bickering, theft, two years ; Richard Ellis, theft, oighteoii mouths ; Edwin Arnold, theft from tho person, two years; Edgar Michael Tell, forgery and uttering, twolvo months ; H. Wall Wyn, tlieit, admitted to probation. Dunedin, last night. Elizabeth Hastio, for attempted suicide by drowning, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called on. It was stated tho girl was now an inmate of the Salvation Army Home.