NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1241, 25 September 1911, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By. Tclcgraph—Presa Association.! .4 THE LAURIER DEFEAT. ITS BEARING'ON RECIPROCITY. Auckland, Septombcr 23. Mr. W. A. Beddoo, Trade Commissioner for Canada, interviewed oil tho subject of the. deieat of the Laurier Government, said a,s the election was- prohablv fought on tho question of Reciprocity with Lnitod States tho Con-:T\-ativo victory must mean that the Reciprocity jiropcsals will bo killed as it was 'liat the agreement should be approved bv the Parliaments of United States and Canada. Mr. Beudoa said the change in party would not involve a change of Canada's Trade Commissione." in New Zealand. As to the effect of the change respecting Reciprocitv Mr. Beddoo said nad the agreement been carriod all the natural products of our country, which were the same as those to he admitted to Canada from United States free, would also have gone in duty free. J[r. Beddoo received a cablegram stating that six Ministers hod been defeated, and that no doubt the Liberal' party was defeated. A BOLT FROM GAOL. Gisborne, September 24. A man named Burnecle, aliM Pcarce, who, at tho just-concluded session of the Supremo Court, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and four years' reformative treatment, and who escaped from gaol on Wednesday, was on Saturday evening in tho vicinity" of Waerangaokuri, 27 miles from Gisborne.

THSY JUST ESCAPED. Blenheim, September 23. About i o'clock ihis morning <i ' six-room-j<l house in Maxwell Bund, owned by Mr. R. M'Callum, and occupied by, Mr. E. S. Hylton, secretary of the Miirll.urough Education Board, was totally destroyed by fire. The inmates got out jus>t in iiLia, faring nothing except 'hoi l '- clothes. Tho house was insured for £\M in tho Nos' Zealand office and tho furni(uro for JC2SO in the South British. THE NEW OTAGO TUG. Dunedin, September 22. Tho Harbour Board to-nisrat considered tho tenders for the new tug. There were 12 tondcrs, eight from firms in the Old Country, two from firms in China, and two from local firms. The tenders ransod from £.18,500 to jC2t,OOO, and it was eventually nsracd to accept tho tender of Messrs. Stcronson and Cook. Port Chalmers, at .€22,778, with a proviso that the tug bo built locally.