NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1451, 11 May 1905, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Presß Association.) FEILDING, last night.

Mr, W. 'Dicks;oh ‘will contest the Oroua seat at the forthcoming election in the interests of the Government.

Before Mr Thomson, S.M., this morning a lad named Rink was charged with -‘'Wounding a school-fellow) named Jones at the. High School with a knife on May Ist. The evidence of .witnesses showed that the latter aquinted water oven Rink,, who was sharpening a pencil. Rink caught the boy, and hit him in, the back* inflicting a slight wp.un'd. lie had no inteuition of doing him an injury. The magistrate sentenced the had no option hut to commit the lad to take his trial at Palmerston, hail being allowed., PAHIATUA, last night. The Ballance Co-operative Dairy, Company, jiay out next week £2550 for April butter-fat, being at the rate of ninopence per lb, or 2d per lb more than in the corresponding month of‘ 1904." Owing to the dry, month the company manufactured 61 tons less butter than in tlio previous" April, notwithstanding an increased number of suppliers. The average test rose to 4.44 per, cent. WELLINGTON, last night.

When the s.s. Mocraki arrived from Sydney to-day it was found that one of the ship’s hoys was suffering from a skin eruption Sufficiently Suapicioub to induce the p.ort health officer to call in the'district health'officcr. The two doctors decided that ‘ the trouh'e the hoy is sU'fTe'ripig from is not contagions, and the vessel, was accordingly, allowed to come alongside.