NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1965, 28 December 1906, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

AUCKLAND, yesterday. Doris Evelyn McCarter, aged nine years, died ill tile lio.sqital to-day, as the result of burns sustained through her clothes catching lire at Otaliulm, yesterday. Deceased was going to buy sweets when her clothes became alight in the main street. It is surmised a passer-by carelessly threw down a lighted match. Eight motor cars of various sizes and power leave Queen street this afternoon for a reliability contest to Wellington, Fourteen cars were entered .but the number was reduced by Ryan and Company’s lire and accidents in the South. The insurances on Ryan and Co.'s lire were as follows: —British and Mercantile, £JSU(j; Commercial Union, £1600; stock, machinery, and plant, North British, £7500; Liverpool, London, and Globe, £3500; Commercial Union, £2OOO, Royal. £SOO. Other companies are interested in these amounts by reinsurance. The North British also covered the

motor cars ,valued at about £9OOO, but tlie amount of the insurance is not yet obtainable. WAIROA, yesterday. The Caledonian sports were a great success. C. Catanacii, from scratch, won tlie mile, two miles, and throe miles bicycle races. Jioroka Heketa won the ICO yards run in three heats, and the 220.ynids handicap; Knocks, the half mile; Samson, 440 yards; and Lambert, the hurdles. The mile resulted : Knocks, 1; White, 2. J) AN N IfiV 111 KE. ves ter da y. Ernest Morgan, a station hand, aged 19, was killed by falling from a bicycle while descending a hill near Glengarry station. WELLINGTON, yesterday.

Major Wynyard, of tlie English cricket team, is confined to liis bed and will be unable to play again for some days. CHRISTCHU ROM, yesterday. The Premier lias received a cable

from the High Commissioner of South Africa, stating the necessary notices to bring into operation the ieciproc.il treaty between New Zealand ami South Africa will be gazetted this week, The Commissioner expresses gratification at the successful conclusion of the negotiations, and expresses a hope that the treaty will be the beginning of closer commercial relations.

TIMAR.U, yestei day. Last evening Daniel Find, a settlor belonging to Pleasant Point district, was killed. He was standing at a corner in tlie Point township, when a trap, driven by a young man, ran into him, death being instantaneous. Deceased leaves a large grown-up family.

1 DUNEDIN, yesterday. A syndicate of four, including two employes ol the Gas Works, tliew 'Tatterdemalion in Tattersall’s consultation on the Slimmer Cup, and receive £4OOO.

H AMILTON, yesterday. A lad named Benjamin Spence, aged 15, whoso parents reside at I'ukete ,vvas drowned in the Waikato river last evening. Deceased got into a canoe, which upset, and immediately sank. His body lias not been recovered.

JTLENHEIM, yesterday. . The insurance on the Criterion building was £4OOO in tlie Phoenix, £2OOO in tlie South British; on tlie furniture, Soutli British £250, Ni tjoiial £2OO, Victoria £3OO, Royal Exchange £450; stock, in the National, £2OO in the \ ictoria. Miss Millington, milliner, stock, £250 in the New Zealand.