NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 57, 8 March 1901, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

By Telegraph—Per Press Association, Wellington, last night.

The Railway Department are importing plant with which to creosote sloepers. It will be erected somewhat between Woodville and Dannovirko. The Government have ordered the Railway Department to prepare three saloon carriages for the use of the Duko and Duchess of Cornwall. One will he for tho Auckland section, another for Wellington, and another for the Hutunui-Bluff section.

The Government, on re-considera-tion, have decidod to hold over the question of the plebiscite on tho question of Federation with Australia pending the taking of evidence in Australia by the Federation Commission, This will leave the public greater time for consideration, and the subjects will he more matured than at present. On Mr Justice Cooper taking his seat on the Supreme Court Bench today he was given a hoaifcv welcome by the local Bar. The troopship Dalhousie, after coaling, sailed finally from the colony at noun.

The following additional officers have reported themselves at the Seventh Contingent camp: Lieutenants D. Stewart (Auckland), E. W. Wilkinson and J. Drury (Wkangarei), J. A. College and W. H. Wilson, Wilson was a sergeant in the Second Contingent,

Hawcra, last night. The election of twelve members for the Taranaki district under the Maori Councils Act of last session is being held to-day. So far there is little interest in the proceedings, the result of various meetings held in different places on the coast, seeming to indicate that the Natives consider the Act unnecessary,

Napier, last night. Messrs Nelson Brothers recoived the following cable from the Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company to-day: “ Frozen meat market continues to decline. North Island mutton has fa 1 lon another l-Bth per lb. To-day’s quotations are : Best Canterbury, 4id ; best Napier and North Island, 4d.”

Invercargill, last night. The Supreme Court sittings have closed, the civil and criminal business only occupying two days, though. six elapsed since the previous sittings! The case of Elizabeth Winter v. the Nightcaps Coal Company, claim £l5O for the loss of plaintiff’s husband by accident, was settled out of Court,

Wooclville, last night. A, lunch given by the directors of the bacon factory was a great success. About 500 people were present. The menu was in French. The estables were entirely composed of products from the factory. Mr O’Meara, member for the district, proposed the toast of “ The Bacon Industry.” He said he intended to urge the Government to acquire a large fleet of cargo steamers to export the products of the colony, and to place New Zealand on an equal footing in other markets of the world. Mr Anderson, one of the directors, said Sydney was now the principal market for the Company’s products, but if Federation closed this market they would have to seek markets • in America, Europe, and the Cape, and competition would increase the quality of the Company’s products. “ The Dairy Industry ” was toasted, and the speakers urged the extension of the industry, as more profitable than wool, and one that had done more to advance the prosperity of the colony than anything else; Auckland, last night.

At the Police Court to-day a young man named'George Donovan, a jockey, was fined 40s and costs, or 14 days’ imprisonment for cruelly ill-treating the horse Venus in the Steeplechase at Potter’s paddock. The evidence showed that the horse had been cruelly spurred. Waipawa, last night. Surgeon-Captain Godfray was entertained at a social at Waipukurau last night. There was a large attendance. Captain Godfray received a cordial reception. An address of welcome was delivered by Mr W. C. Smith, H.L.C. Feilding, last night. - A young man named Alfred Cawood, employed in a smithy, was killed yesterday afternoon by. a kick on the head from a horse which was standing in the shop. Christchurch, last night.

At an inquest held this morning on a man found drowned yesterday in the Avon, the verdict was “Pound Drowned.” His identity is still unknown. The Education Department has asked the Board of Education to furnish specific recommendations for increases of teachers’ salaries, so that they may arrive at a satisfactory solution of the difficulty regarding distribution of the Parliamentary vote.

| last night. Three pronounce the case of Mr Sjorrison, member for Caversham, tojfbe cancer. Three others fail to find all the results they would expect in such a caso, and having doubts as to - its being . cancer, recommend a course of medicine lasting for five weoks.