NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1972, 7 January 1907, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

Press Association. AUCKLAND, Faturday. A siDg'c man named George Frederick Clark committed suicide by taking carbolic acid this morning. He was formerly an inmate of the asylum. A verdict of temporary insanity was returnedNEW PLYMOUTH, Saturday. A young man named William Wilson, working on the railway deviation, caught his foot in the points and was knocked down, and a loaded truck went over his head. Small hopes are entertained of his recovery. WAIROA, Saturday, John Mitchell, Junr., a half-caste, committed for trial for arson, has confessed that he burnt his dwelling down. It was insured for £T3O in the Standard Office. He pleads mental derangement consequent on his wife’s death and the extenuating circumstances that it was Maori custom to burn down a dwelling in which were the effects of the deceased who occupied it. MASTERTON, Saturday. It is believed the Acclimatisation Society will have to re-stock all the creeks in the vicinity of the Kuamahunga river owing to ashes from the bush fires decimating the trout, Dead trout of all sizes are seen in the deeper holes, WELLINGTON, Saturday. Captain Wynyard brought with him an invitation from the M.C.C. to send a New Zealand cricket team to England. This was not to have been announced until later in the seasem, but owing to liis return to England, Captain Wynward has made it public now, and hopes it will bo accepted. WESTPORT, Saturday. Advices have been received from London that the Westport Railway and Coal Company of London, to work the colliery area known as Coolcjs lease, in the Westport district, had been successfully floated, and that the money for dcvclopment of the mine w as available - at any time, and would be placed in the bank at the direction of the Now Zealand directors. The Agent-General in London had informed members of the company that he was satisfied with the bona fldcs, and was ejuito prepared tc , cable confirmation to the Government i necessary. The Wesport Harbor Board receipt! for 1906 totalled .£83,698, and the ex pendituro 164,919. In ISBS, the firs year of the Board’s inauguration o works, the total revenue for the yea amounted to £BIO7. The past year' (1906) actual receipts amounted t £70,897, being an increase of nearly nin times as much as in ISSS. The coc output in 1885 was 78,094 tons, and las year (1906) it had increased to 607,60 tons, or nearly eight times more tba 1885. The tonnage of shipping deal with in 1885 amounted to about £120,00 registered tons. During 1906 the tor ! nage dealt with aggregated 575,22 B registered tons, the increase in this cas being nearly five times as much. Tli y Board recently reduced port charges o coal shipped for bunkering purposes. The flat lands along the sea coast at ™ being taken up with a view to born: for coal at low levels.

BLENHEIM, S.turday.

The following lire tho results of the I 34th week of tho egg-laying competition, 2108, grand total, 72,4(33. Highest for week: Aldridge 31, Hockey, brown Leghorns 31; Brookes 30, Medical Hall 30, Volknmn 30, Lorry 30, all white Leghorns. Highest aggregates ; Brookes 9(38, A. and P. Association 906, J. Ilodson 914, Marlborough Hotel 892, Brow Poultry Farm 889, all white Leghorns.