LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11146, 9 December 1907, Page 6

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) DARGAVTLLE, tliis day. Mr/A. E. Harding, who vifas defeated at last general election by .six votes, announces liimself as a candidate for Kaipara at the next Parliamentary election. MASTERTON, tips day. The loiig-continued absence, bf- rain ie •'.cutely felt by fanners. Grain crops are stinted and the growth has almost ceased. Unless the drought is relieved before long the conseciuences will be serious. PALMERSTON N. f thi s day. At the S.JM. Court to-day t a charge of manslaughter watt brought" "against ..Emmanuel "Wliite, andjie was committed for trial ;tt liie next sitting of the Supreme Court. White gave two school girls \i. rid*; on liis horse, whir.- broke into a slutrp center and to"'r. Ilium on the load,/ one girl, Lucy Goldfinch, sustaining a' friictiM<?d skull and .subsequently dyings i The case against White -rested on the/! point that he contributed towards the/ girl's deab by failing to take prbper pre-./ cautions, for their safety- - CHRISTCHURCH, this day. At the Police Court to-day the S.M. granted the application of "the Jockey ('iui> io withdraw the remainder of the informations against bookmakers for trespassing on the Riecai'ton racecourse. i DUNEDIN", this day. I A meeting of the Gt.lgo branch of the railway servants, after hearing addresses yesterday by PresideijJ-. Walker and General Secretary Edwards, passed a resolution disapproving of the action of theseofficials m visiting branches at tjj£ present juncture, and also because of tlvs harassment of the branch for the past two | years or more. i.