LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1946, 30 November 1906, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

PRESS ASSOCIATION Wolington, last night, Tho first of the three-weekly mail services to connect at Sydney with the Suez steamers will leave Wellington on Friday of next week. Tho High Commissioner cables that at the wool sales fine merino shows an advance of Id, medium li-d, and crossbreds Id per lb. At the Supreme Court to-day John O’Keefe, charged with sheep stealing at Martinborough, was acquitted, Albert Stanard , and Arnold Wilkes,, were found guilty of assault and robbery, aud were remanded for sentence,

They have so far been twelve applications finally dealt with by the Laud Board for workers’ homes, of which there are twenty-five at Petonc, Six tenants are in occupation.

Two men, William Kay and John Davy, were sued at the Supreme Court to-day for T3l by Thos. Hanlon. The men are now serving sentence imprisonment for rob - bing Hanlon, and the sum sued for was the amount found in their possession. Judgment was given for the amount claimed.

Dunedin, last night,

The Premier has received a cable from General Babioglon, deeply deploring Colonel Piit’a death, and extending sincere sympathy.