NEW ZEALAND.
By Telegraph.—Press Association,
Dunedin, last night.
The Dunedin Stock Exchange has voted twenty guineas to a fund that is being raised to defray the expenses incurred by Patrick Tansey, of Kumara, in prosecuting the Lawsons for salting the Foley’s Creek claim. The Star states that Captain Robert Fraser, the eldest son of the Hon. T. H. Fraser, has been appointed by the Government to command the new defence vessel wb’ch is being built at Home to their order for submarine mining purposes. Captain Fraser leaves Wellington by the Rimutaka on the 28th to bring out the new vessel.
Auckland, last night.
A fire at Papakura destroyed Coulthard Bros.’ mill and plant. The insurances are £2OO in the New Zealand Office, and the total loss is estimated at £I3OO.
The Chief Justice opened the civil sittings of the Supreme Cov t tb’S morning. One of the cases on the list involves the disposal of the suiplus fund of the Auckland Exb’bition, amounting to £2OOO, as between the Erection of a Chamber of Com mere a and a Technical School.
The Governor and Lady RaDfurly will give a reception on the evening of June 11th at Government House, Auckland, in honor of the v isit of the Duke and Duchess of York. It is probable that Lord and Lady Ranf'urly will accompany the Duke and Duchess of York to Rotorua. Wellington, last night.
The Hon. Mr Cadman and Mr E. M. Smith will shortly leave for England to endeavour to interest British capitalists in Taranaki iron-sand and the mineral resources of the Mokau district.
Timaru, last night.
The Board of Education has resolved to submit to the Department a proposal for the allocation of a special grant for teachers’ salaries on a uniform {[percentage on last quarter’s salaries. The increase -will be about per cent
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 62, 14 March 1901, Page 4
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