NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11006, 2 July 1901, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

(I'RESS ASSOCIATION" T_LEfi_A.il,'*.) AUCKLAND, July 1. Forty Austria**- (cave by the Mararoa, en routs to New Caledonia. Under an engagement _ made through the Austrian Corn-lid the nien .will be put on road work. More are to leave ehbrtly. Over 600 have left this year. There was a heavy gale with torrents of rain last night, but no great damage was done. The following is a summary of the work of the Stipendiary Magistrate in connection with the old age pensions during the first quarter of the present financial year (April Ist to July Ist) for tha Auckland district: — Number of renewals investigated and certificates authorised, 381; number of new pensions grantedj 30; number of inward transfers, 11; number of deaths, 26; number of outward transfers, 8; number of rejected certificates cancelled, 3; total on the regisJuly Ist, 1029; total on the registers, April Ist, 1025—an increase enly of an n«Mition of four in the last three months. The deaths for the corresponding period last * c„r were 13

NEW PLYMOUTH, July 1. Mr Stanford, S.M., sitting as a Licensing Committoa this morning, gave a decision upon an application for a new license. He commented severely upon the, underhand at-" tempts to influence 'his decision, and gave lengthy reasons for finally granting a license to the' Commonwealth Hotel. PALMER-TON NORTH, Juiv 1.

A local stable proprietor, named •_.' Cocke-ry, was arrested to-day on a charge of horae-testing.