NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 408, 6 May 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Hie Native Minister met the Arawa tribe al Rotorua on Saturday and dis-.u-sed matters m connection with Land Councils for the district. Mr Carroll is due at Huntley on May 20 at a large meeting convened by Mahuta to hear what objections the Natives have to the boundaries gazetted, and to decide the question of proclaiming the Waikato district. A fire on board the ship Otago at the wharf on Saturday night was suppressed without much damage, The steward on going into the cabin, found a lot of smoke, and found a room containing kerosene and some stores on fire. Two or three buckets of water put an end to all danger. The Mararoa arrived on Saturday afternoon. She left Sydney in a heavy gale, and experienced a very high sea during the voyage. Her speed was reduced to 13 knots till coming down the coast. At the Supreme Court the Judge cngratui ated the Grand Jury on the calendar being the lightest since his accession to the Bench. There are 13 charges, mostly of theft. The Tairua Broken Hill’s return as £2,122 from 400 tons of ore. Tiie Barrier Reefs mine and plant were sold by auction as a going concern, being purchased by a local syndicate for £ll,lOO. At tiie Auckland Supreme Court William Powell was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment for horse stealing. WELLINGTON, last night. The first prosecution under the Opium-smoking Prohibition Act of last session came into tiie Magistrate’s Court to-day, when a Chinaman was fined 20s for unlawfully permitting the smoking of opium, and a European named Samuel Northy fined 10s for smoking the drug. Both pleaded guilty, Returns from the Wakamarina Golden Point mine are 13ozs lldwt. 18 grs for 113 hours’ work ; Mosquito, lOozs 2dwt for 97 hours. Mounteney Jephson, a passenger to tiie colony by tiie Warrimoo on April -23, was fined £5 and costs at the Magistrate’s Court to-day for failure tp report himself within the specified time in terms of the regulations under ithe Public Health Act. Mr McArthur S.M., intimated that the penalty in future cases where passengers wilfully persevered in ignoring the regulations would be severe, At the Supreme Court criminal sittings Michael Power was sentenced to eighteen months 1 for receiving stolen goods. Thomas O’Connor was acquitted on a charge of theft. The export of gold from the colony last month was almost double that for April last year, viz., 43,0520 z., as against 22,5800 z. The total for the past four months was 141,7790 z., valued at £541,440, as compared with 137,8630 z., valued at £533,567, during tiie corresponding period of last year. During the first quarter of the present year 10,000 oz more gold was exported from Auckland than during the first quarter last year. Tiie export of silver last month was 51,638 oz., as against 3i,1140z in April last year....

Rockland’s ' beach returned lOoz 15 dwts for 10G hours ; Hauhaii Creek 12oz for SS hours. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. Mr P. M. Hansen, Australasian representative of the British Electrical Traction Company, is asking the Conference of local bodies now discussing the re-construction and control of the city and suburban tramways to give him some indication as to whether the proposals submitted by him on March Ist are likely to he adopted, PALMERSTON N., last night. The Manawatu Cricket Association ,has obtained the necessary guarantee of £IOO for a match with the English team proposing to visit the colony.