NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 191, 20 August 1901, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

By Telegraph— Press Association. Napier, last night. A single woman named Elizabeth Schmidt, aged 27, in service at Hastings, gavo birth to a child on Saturday. The infant was subsequently found smothered in her bod. The mother admits that the child was alive when born. A charge of murdering her infant is to be preferred against the woman.

Lord Ranfurly arrived here by express -rain on Saturday,

Wellington, last night. A fire occurred this morning in a boarding-house in Bouleott street, owned by the Compton estate, and occupied by Mrs Young. The upper part of tho building was destroyed. The liouso was insured in the Liverpool and London and Globe for £3OO, and the furniture for £755 in tho New Zealand.

A meeting of Petone railway employes hold to consider tho question of being brought under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act was opposed to tho idea on account of the loss of present privileges which it would entail. No vote, however, was taken.

Tho sum of £245 was taken at the football match at tho Athletic Park on Saturday, exclusive of tho grandstand takings. As boys were admitted for sixpence, this represents an aotondanco of nearly 6000.

In the Supreme Court, Alfred Hornby was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for receiving stolen watches. The Chief Justice stated that ho was of opinion that the prisoner was either one of the burglars who broke into Laory and Company’s or an accomplice. A building at Potone, owned by Mr G. T. London, and occupied by Mr Odlin, was destroyed by fire last night. The insurance on the building was ,£2OO in the Alliance, and on the furniture JUOO in the North Queensland. The brigade smartly saved adjoining buildings on both sides after they had taken fire.

Timaru, last night. A branch of the Farmers’ Union has been formed at Waimate. At a meeting of trades-union delegates on Saturday night to consider the formation of a South Canterbury Trades and Labor Council it was deoided to adjourn for a month, as several delegates had not received authority from their headquarters at Christchurch. The meeting then passed a resolution asking the Minister of Labor not to delete the clause in the Factories Bill regulating the hours of labor and overtime. Special reference was made to fellmonger and allied trades, and to the refusal of the Arbitration Court at Christchurch to make an award.

Dunedin, last night. The criminal calendar comprises eight eases, mainly of a minor character.