LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1951, 6 December 1906, Page 3

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

PRESS ASSOCIATION Wellington, last night.

Walii Kai, a Taranaki Maori, was liberated from the Terrace Prison this morning after serving 16 years’ hard labor. In 1S«0 Kai murdered an old man namod Stephen Maloney, who lived in a hut at New Plymouth. Robbery was evidently tljc motive of tho crime. Kai was sentenced to death, but on account of his youth—ho was only 17—the sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life. His discharge to-day was due to liis exceptionally good record whilst in gaol, and in some measure to the fact that at the tirno of the murder lie was unable to appreciate the gravity of lhs crime. Tho Crown has entered a nolle prosequi in .tho ease against O'Brien, a police constable who was charged with having robbed a man whom ho had arrested. Two juries have failed to agree in this ease. Dunedin, last night

The commander of tho warship Pioneer, now at Dunedin, has received a wire from the Admiral at Sydney, directing him not to take any more recruits in Now Zealand, The cause of tho stoppage is unknown, but probably the complement is full. Auckland, last night,

At Te Awamutu this morning Sir J ohn Gorst visited the school, and gavo an interesting address to the children. He then proceeded to Ngaruawahia, and was shown the places of interest in tho neighborhood. To-morrow he will pay a visit to Mahuta’s people at Waahi. The Auckland District Methodist Synod rejected a motiou to renew tho request for independent legislative power by 37 votes to 5. The Rev, B. b\ Rothwcll was appointed representative to next year’s conference.