Late New Zealand Telegrams

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 37, 13 February 1901, Page 1

Late New Zealand Telegrams

Per Press Association.—Copyright. Wellington, last night. The Midland Commission started sitting to-day and then adjourned to Nelson, for which they leave to-morrow. A return was produced showing that while in the hands of the Government the railway has yielded revenue £12,366 in excess of expenditure. Auckland, last night. The Indian troops were about town to-day. They are delighted with the Auckland climate, and are making the most of their stay. They are particularly anxious that the arrangements for the Now Zealand tour should include a stay of at least four days in each of the principal ports. They are not good sailors, and appreciate the rest between each sea Voyage. There is keen interest in shipping circles here in the run to Sydney of the Sonoma and the Mararoa. The red-funnel boat has beon delayed for a slight defect in the engine-room, which brings the hour of her departure very closo to that of the ’Frisco mail steamer. In view the Mararoa’s record-breaking on the present trip North, it is anticipated that the Union steamer will give 'a good account oftherself.

Christchurch, last night.

A young man named George .Richard Wilson was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment by Mr Batham, S.M., this morning for biting a piece out of the lip of Thomas Downie during a quarrel last week. Accused was the worse for liquor at the timo, and Downie swore . that he gave him no provocation. The Magistrate said that Wilson had behaved like a wild beast.

At the Suprome Court this morning a verdict of not guilty was returned in the case in which James Middleton was charged with assaulting a man named Power with a long-handled shovel. ■ At the Supreme Court Donald Mcßae, charged with breaking and entering at Lyttelton, was found not guilty, Dunedin, last night.

Herman Booth, aged 19, who pleaded guilty in the lower Court on January 22nd to theft from a dwelling, was admitted to probation by Mr Justice Williams for twelve months, conditional on his paying £6 2s by weekly instalments of half-a-crown.

The total cost of liquidating the Colonial Bank up to date is £6633 6s Bd. The Judge to-day granted Messrs Vigors and Simpson an additional £l6O each. When they ask for a final order of dissolution the liquidators expect to return the shareholders about Is per share. . ■'