NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1975, 10 January 1907, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

Press Association. AUCKLAND, yesterday. Mr Sol. L. Ziman will be submitted as the Auckland candidate for the Rhodes’ scholarship. Ho is 20 years of age, and has studied at Auckland Grammar school and the University. The New Zealand and River Plato Co. directors cable stating that tho meeting of shareholders approved of tho payment of a dividend of 7 per cent. Mr _ Sproule, representative of tho Oceanic Company, says thero is absos lutely no truth in tho Age’s report that tho Oceanic line has been sold to the Japanese..

WAIHI, yesterday. It has been raining here almost continuously since New Year’s Eve. The potato and oat crops in tho neighborhood have in consequence suffered considerably.

NEW PLYMOUTH, yesterday. Specimens of petroleum have been brought in from Kent road. They are probably the finest surface indications yet found. The property of 170 acres has been purchased outright by Mr Steele.

STRATFORD, yesterday. The Stratford Hospital Board has appointed Miss Elsie Fothcrgill (Auckland) matron out of fifteen applicants, Miss Eleanor Crespin (Wellington) nurse, and Miss Rita Graham (Waihi) nurse probationer.

INVERCARGILL, yesterday. A meeting of the Southland centre of the New Zealand Athletic Association last evening, T. King, of Victoria, who competed last season in Auckland and West Coast districts, and J. Foster, or G. J- Foster, of Auckland, were disqualified for life, for “ringing in.” The association intend taking criminal action against the lattor.

The Exhibition Commissioners have given a shield valued at £2O for a pipe band contest at their sports this month. The Magistrate, Mr McCarthy, fined Israel Moore to-day £2O, and required him to enter into his own recognisance of £SO and two sureties of £25, for indecent language in a railway car on Boxing Day. The evidence was that the language was used in the presence of ladies. Patrick Hughes, with previous convictions, was fined £ls for indecent language on an Invercargill street. In both cases drunkenness was advanced as an excuse for misconduct. Hughes was also ordered to find two sureties of £25 each to keep the peace for twelve months. The Magistrate directed the attention of the police to the sworn evidence of Moore that he was supplied with drink by a Riverton publican whilst under the influence of liquor, with a view to prosecution.