LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10898, 16 February 1907, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. At the inquest touching the death of the infant son of Gertrude Susan Mangan, who, it will be remembered, recently sued a gaol warder named Wrack for maintenance of the cliild,* which died shortly before the close of the police court proceedings, the medical evidence disclosed that death was due to failure of nutrition, brought about by a constitutional defect or defect of nourishment. At the Supreme Court criminal sessions to-day -a yoiwig man named Claude Marmont was found not guilty on a charge of indecently assaulting a little girl at Newton, and was discharged. STRATFORD, last night. News was received this afternoon Unit Richard Cantell, a yuiuig married man residing m Inglewood, was killed through the horse Jean falling with him whilst competing m the cup race at Whangiimomona to-day. WELLINGTON, last night. . The Rev. W. B. Marten, one of the best known Methodist ministers m New Zealand, died m Wellington to-day. Mr Marten had labored m the ministry m New Zealand for about 40 years. The Rhodes scholarship committee of selection met to-day, and selected Colin Gilray, the Otago University nominee, as the scholar for 1907. Gilray, who is a son of Professor Gilray, is 22 years of age. He had taken a B.A. degree, and has represented the South Island and New Zealand on the Rugby football held. CHRESTOHURCH, last night.. Cecil P. Gibson, a young man employed by the D.1.C.. who originally came from Bolton, England, left for Springs tun yesterday morning to attend the firm's picnic, but became ill, and was removed to the Christ church hospital, where he died late last evening, apparently froni poisoning. He had served m the South African Avar, and had suffered from malarial fever, being delicate. An inquest was opened tliis afternoon, but was adjourned m order that an examination of the body might be made. The Women's Christian Temperance Union 'Convention Aviis continued! ■ this morning. The report of the woi'k ;»i ong seamen was read," and showed that the unions iii Dungdhi and Timaru owned local Sailors' Rests, and that Greymouth was about to erect one. Miss 'Smith, of Langley Mills, England, gave an address upon the state of the work m Great Britain. Resolutions were carried, urging the raising of the age of protection to 21 years, the legal recognition of the economic equality of husband and wife, and the abolition of all sex distinctions iii thc factory. Mrs Hislop (Victoria) gave an account of the state of affairs ill that country, and of the recent campaign led by Mr Judkins. A motion was passed urging that scientific temperance be included m the examinations for teachers, and that it should be made a class subject m the schools, to be taught m connection with hygiene and physiology. TIMARU, last night. The Pareora School Committee, of which the Hon. J. Anstey, M.L.0., is chairman, have resigned m a body as a protest against the action of the Education Board m declining to comply with the committee's request to erect a now school. in a more central pail of the district. There has been friction over this matter for the past two j-ears, and deputation after deputation has been heard by the Board, the residents of Pareora district being divided m opinion as to whether the school should be shifted or not, - though the committee was unanimous that the school should bo shifted lather than spend the "money on repairing the existing school, which* is m a bad state of repair.