NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1934, 16 November 1906, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

PRESS ASSOCIATION Auckland, last night. A young man, aged about 25 years, was found wandering at Onshunga in a very weak state. He was evidently suffering from some brain trouble. He was removed to the hospital. He said his name was John Hodge 3, but otherwise his memory was a perfect blank. His clothes bore the name of a Dunedin tailor. Otherwise there is no clue to his identity. Napier, last night.

The Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company, London, cable as follows : “ The values of mutton and lamb have declined ; quotations are— Mutton, Canterbury 4-g-d, Napier, "Wellington, and North Island first quality s|-d; beef, hinds 4<fd, fores 3£d.”

"Wellington, last night.

Fmil Steiner, a native of Prussia, who was not permitted to land from the Warrimoo yesterday because he could not pass the handwriting test, was allowed to come ashore to-day. Coached by the German Consul, he has been able to write sufficiently well to satisfy.the authorities. The sittings of the Representation Commissioners to readjust the electoral boundaries opened this morning. A party of eight Albanian gipsies arrived yesterday from Sydney. They will have to pass the statutory writing and language test before being allowed to land. There is trouble between the contractor for the Kilbirnie tramway tunnel, Mr A. McGuire, and his employes. Three shifts of men, twenty in each shift, have left work owing to the conditions being unsatisfactory to them. Mr McGuire says he can get miners from elsewhere to do the work. The men want 10s a day for those who do timbering, and 9s for others, and 46 hours a week.

Hokitika, last night.

The body of an elderly man, identified as W. H. Clark, a civil engineer, supposed to have come from Auckland district, who arrived hero about a month ago on a prospecting expedition, was found on Ocean Beach, early this morning. The body had only been a short time in the water, it is presumed siuee last night, but there is no evidenco to show how the accident happened. Christchurch, last night. The case of Georgina Frar c’s Brown, proprietor of a Christchurch nursing home, charged with manslaughter by neglect of a newly-born child, was called on again to-day. The proceedings wore abandoned, the evi denee not being conclusive that the child was born alive.