NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 273, 27 November 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

[isy telegiufh. l-lUiSS ASSOCIATION’.] Auckland, last night. Andrew Ferguson, injured by- a fall down the Post Office lift yesterday, died at the hospital this morning. Ho was married, and aged years.

Woodvillc, last night. A very heavy frost last night damaged the potato crop for the third time this season.

Wauganui, lust night. The Wanganui Bicycle Club has resigned from the League, and will in future hold open meetings, regardless of any governing body. Wellington, last night. The postmaster at Cheviot telegraphs: “ Two shocks were felt hist night, at 8.110 and 9.4;'). The former was of a double nature, but both wore very slight." Christchurch, last night. T\vo bookmakers, Sydney Ncttleiield, oi : Napier, and Bornan Watson, were each lined 40s and costs for trespassing on the Metropolitan Trotting Club’s grounds a} Addington on November Sin and October hist respectively. The Magistrate told Nettleford, who had been fined several times previously for a similar offence, that, had ho not gone off the course promptly when warned a second time, he would have boon sent to prison, and if he came before the Court again on a similar charge he need not wonder if ho was sentenced to imprisonment. Dunedin, last night. Thomas Attewell was found not guilty of arson at Gore, and John Burrows guilty. The latter was sentenced to four mouths’ imprisonment. i