LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1939, 22 November 1906, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

PRESS ASSOCIATION,

Thames, last night,

John Brown, a jockey apprentice employed by James Twobill, a most promising rider, met with a serious nooident while riding in exercise work. The horse fell, and Brown sustained oonousaion of tho brain, and brokon collar bane, He was removed to the Thames Hospital, where he lies unooneoious.

Christchurch, last night,

At Lyttelton to-day Norman Walter Forde, soaman on the Athenio, was fined £5 for smuggling at r .mapfcone, At the same Bitting of the Cjurt Richard Gibson, mister of the schooner Joseph Sims, was fined 21s for leaving port on September 26-h without giving a eertifioato to the Odleotor of Customs that tho ship was sufficiently ballasted, and that tho ballast was properly seoured. Tho oaso was the first of its kind einco tbe ooming into force of the regulaiiona regarding tho ballaeting of saffiDg vessels, and a heavy penalty was net applied for.

Wanganui, last night, Willi-im Hall, of Wanganui, was ton’ght appointed secreiary of the Wanganui Jockey Club. There were 44 appi 0 iUtF.

Chrisiobureb, lait night. At a meeting of the Nor<h Canterbury branch cf ike Farmers’ Union to day, reference was made to the deaths of Mr Kukbride and the Hon, A. Pitt, and motions of sympathy wore oarrled, -