NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 804, 20 January 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

By telegraph —Press Association—* WHANGAREI, last night.-

An unprecedented Hood occurred on Sunday morning. Several bridges were destroyed, and considerable damage done in town and district. Recent freshes- brought down a large number of logs from the higher readies of the riven AUCKLAND, last night, To-dav the City Council purchased the Harbor Board’s property at Freeman’s Bay, known as Victoria Park, at £SOO per acre, for the purpose of a public park. The racehorse The Swimmer, while being schooled at Ellerslie this morning, came down, breaking his neck, NAPIER, last night. Mr F. W. Robjohns, bead of the well-known firm of Robjohns, Hindmarsh and Co., died yesterday, after a long and trying illness, aged 30, IMaera lianita was committed to trial on four charges of horse stealing and one of the theft of a bicycle. PAI-HATUA, last night, A boy aged three years, son of Mr Sydney Wcatherley, of Wakanui, fell into a bucket of scalding milk, and died from his injuries. Following are the acceptances for Uio Cup ■:—Motor, Regulation, General Symonds, Kalniwai, Plaidic, Moiti, Benefactor, Aide-de-Camp, Platypus, Volley, Roseplot, Lady’s Link, Jewel Gun, Elusion, The Rioter, Lissa, Vain, Oudenarde, Mussel* Rags, Stepdaughter, Cumulus, WELLINGTON, last night.

Following is- the allocation of flic vote of £-17,000 for school buildings ill the colony Auckland £OOSO, Otago £6500, North Canterbury £6300, Wellington £5300, Wanganui: £4200, Southland £3550, Hawke’s Bay £2700, Nelson £2250, South Canterbury £IOOO, Taranaki £1750, Marlborough £OSO, Grey £BSO, Westland £BOO,

The report of the Harbour Board for the period of nine months, presented at the statuory meeting to-day shows that the work has grown enormously in all departments. The Secretary states that the problem is now to provide accommodation for the growth of trade. Since the incorporation of the Board in 1880, the revenue lias amounted to £1,571,490, of which £851,084 was derived from loan. The sum 0f£96,843 represents the revenue moneys and the remainder from revenue for the 12 months ended September, 1902. The Board has spent just upon a million* and a half since its constitution. The past year’s credit balance on working account is£l732. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The Bowling Association’s Tournament opened to-day in periect weather The green is in magnificent order. A large number of visiting players are present

DUNEDIN, last night,-

The Magistrate, Mr Graham, this morning dismissed the previously : heard case against Macassey, secretary of the Forbury Park Racing Club, charged with inserting an advertisement in the Star for the purpose of inducing persons to tret at the recent meeting at Forbury. The infant daughter of Mr, T. B, •McCarthy, of Riverton, aged 21 months, was run over by a trap on Saturday night, and fatally injured. Two men named Joseph Raven and Alfred Daplyn were drowned at Fortrose on Sunday evening,. They went out in a Hat bottomed boat for a row. The boat swamped on the b»x. Two others who were in the boat were rescued iu an exhausted condition.