NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1594, 26 October 1905, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

.(For Press Association.) Auokland, last night. A woman named Driscoll met with a Berious accident last night. She accidentally, sot her clothes alight with a candle, being badly burned. Her condition is critical.

Tho gold returns for Auckland district during the,past thr.eo weeks show that bullion of the value of £79,814 was won. , ;

A settler named Robert Bell, of Rawene, met with a serious accident last week. While engaged in hauling logs to Taheke river with a bullock team,

one of the'logs got across a truck, and Bell went to move it with a jack. The log fell upon a bunch of green supplejacks growing from a rotten tree, and at that moment the bullocks started off. The tree was torn down and fell upon the unfortunate man, who was picked up in an unconscious condition, die was taken to Raweno Hospital, and never recovered consciousness, death (Occurring two dayb later. As a medical certificate was given to the effect that death was., due to pneukhonia an inquest was not held.

Wellington, last night. Before < the Audit< Commission this morning Fredk Silver, assistant de[fence store-keeper, was examined as to transfers of stores and the methods of the Department. "J. Collins, assistant audit .secretary, of the Treasury, saidl he* had searched all l • accounts out of which it was possible Captain Beddon could be paid a sum for reorganisation of defence stores or for any other purpose, and had found no trace of any such payment. It was absolutely impossible that any such cheque could have been paid without the record appearing in the Department’s books.

t T: Craig, of .Wanganui, who along with Ross, Williams, Drake, ana 'Burke waß to have represented New Zealand at the champion athletic meeting in Sydney, has strained himself and cannot make the trip. Lyttelton, last night. In the Lyttelton Magistrates’s Court to-day Mr Bishop, S.M., gave judgment for the defendant Union with costs, £3 Is, in the case of Hansen v. the Lyttelton Stevedores’ Union, Hansen had been suspended, and precluded from working on Lyttelton wharves for a month because he went grass-seeding on the peninsula in February, contrary to the rule of the Union, providing that no member shall work for any persons other than ; the Canterbury Stevedoring Association without a permit from the Union. The Stevedoring Association, in return for this, agrees not to employ outside labor while. members of the- Union are available. Plaintiff relied mainly on the English case, Gibson v. the National Amalgamated Laborers’ Union, in which it was held that a union interfering;; ; with, '.plaintiff’s common law right sto dispose of his labor according to his will was guilty of a tort. Mr Bishop said the legal conditions governing labor in England were entirely different to what they are under our special legislation in New Zealand. - He held that; the Union*was not.acting unlaviffUlly,' and jhad the necessary statutory power to make the rules un<Jer which it had |acted. Christchurch, last night. Mr Holmes, Government engineer, arrives at Christchurch to-morrow morning to inspect the new RiccartonChristchurch tram line. Cars will •run immediately after the line has been passed.

Timaru, yesterday. The Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s show opened to-day in dull and threatening weather. The entries constitute a record, totalling 004, being 53 in excess of those of last ■year. Since last show the Association has spent £7OO, on the ground and buildings, and as a-result the arrangements for this year’s show are more complete than ever before, and are thoroughly satisfactory in every way. The judging of sheep and horses is proceeding to - day. Given fine weather for the principal day tomorrow a record attendance is anticipated. Dunedin, last night. The magisterial inquiry into the wreck of the County of Ayr begun before Mr Riddell, S.M., and Captains Sundstorm and Gordon, nautical assessors.. . The Crown*.Solicitor appealed for the < Collector of Customs,And Mr Sim for the captain and officers of the vessels. Nothing fresh so far has been elicited.

At the Police Court, in the case of James Geedes, charged with having signed his name as a witness to a claim for enrolment without having seen the claimant’s signature made, it was shown in evidence that witnessing it defendant asked claimant if it was her signature, and she replied affirmatively. The case was dismissed, defendant being allowed ft guinea professional costs, At Boblb and Co. are to be had gents tweed trousers, well worth 10s per pair, at 7s 6d ; all in splendid patterns and in any •ize. _