NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 983, 1 September 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

CHARGES OF FORGERY. IV: Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, last night, Frederick Cooper pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence today on two charges of forging an authority to deliver goods, purporting to be signed by A. W. Rutherford, and with forging the signature of A. W. Rutherford to a cheque fon £5.

ASSISTING DISMISSED RAILWAY MEN. DUNEDIN, last night. A meeting of railway men at the ■Trades ,I-lali was addressed by, .Mr Swift of The following resolutions were carried .V That this meeting off railway mc-n in Otago district sympathise, with the dismissed men, and to show practical .sympathy each man be. asked to donate not less than half a day’s pay towards assisting the men; that the executive be requested to donate £2OO from the funds for the same purpose and that the Ota go branch bo asked to donate £ls from tho branch funds.

A BREWER FINED. INVERCARGILL, last night. Mr McCarthy, S.M., gave judgment at Core to-day, in the ease against George Whitingham, brewer, for selling beer within the no-license district of Mataura. Defendant’s license was issued after the passage of the statute authorising the carrying 'of no-license, add his Worship held that it was subject to that contingency. Defendant was convicted, and was fined £5 and costs. INFANTICIDE. HOKITIKA, last night. The body of a newly-born male child was found in the river to-day.