WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 117, 28 May 1901, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

MAORI COUNCILS. By Telegraph.—Tress Association. Wellington, last night. The Councils under the Maori Lands Administration Act have now been elected. Their constitution will not bo complete, however, until Government representatives are appointed. FRIENDLESS SEAMEN. The matter of finding bail for friendless seamen was referred to by Mr Hasoldon, S.M., to-day. He expressed surprise that the existing seamen’s societies did not meet tho requirements of such cases. If, ho said, their functions did not extend that far, ho would bo glad to see some philanthropic person move in tho direction of starting a society to look after the interests of friendless seamen. A SHOCKING CASE. The case of Fong Lee, a Chinese who was charged with having indecently assaulted a girl under 14 years, whom he had since married with tho consent of her parents, was before tho S.M. Court to-day. The police elected to proceed with the prosecution, and the Magistrate committed the accused for trial, though he said lie would refrain from expressing an opinion on the whole circumstances. The wife was not called on to give evidence. STUD HORSES. The four selected in England for the New Zealand Government by Mr Gilruth, arrived by the Gothic in charge of Mr Douglas, Veterinary Surgeon. Tho animals were landed in splendid condition. They are Danger Signal, a ten-year-old Shire stallion, selected as a present from Rothschild’s famous stud, an animal of Gargantuan proportions; the two-ycar-Shiro colt Hertfordshire Boy ; Single Stick 11., a four-year-old chestnut hunting sire, purchased from the Langton Stud Co., Yorkshire, and an Arab stallion acquired from Sir Wilfred Blunt, in Surrey. Danger Signal goes to the South Island.'