NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1906, 16 October 1906, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

PRESS ASSOCIATION Auckland, last night. Walter Richard Webb and Wilson Williamson, wanted on a charge of forgery, arrived by the Victoria from Sydney last night. They were before T»-J* AJLASJ* AAAAAg . »»OUU was churgod with forging a cheque for £338 in the Dame of Edmund Mahoney and uttering the same. Williamson was charged with forging a cheque for £lO in the name of Jabez Bunting. The police stated that £330 of the money obtained on the large cheque had been recovered. Each of the accused was remanded ou bail, with two sureties of £IOO each.

Waihi, last night. William C. Fitzgerald, chomist, in a largo way of business here, and formerly of Wellington and Wanganui, died yesterday from the effects of a drug named trional, taken to induce sleep.

Wellington, last night. In the Supremo Court sentences were passed as follows : Johu Albert Wall, breaking, entering, and forgery, Wanganui, eighteen months; James Downey, forgery and uttering, Masterton, twelve months; Job L. Munson, late railway porter, larceny from a railway station, two years; William Laughton, who said ho was 8G years, a charge of indecent assault at Napier, two years. Christchurch, last night.

Mr T. E. Donne, speaking to a resident of Hanmer, stated it had been finally decided to convert the Spa into a sanatorium. The public have been agitating for this for a considerable time. William Thomas Newman, a station cook, aged about 60, single, died in the police cell this morning from heart disease. He had been arrested on Saturday for drunkenness.