NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 277, 2 December 1901, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Saturday

The annual report of the Kauri Timber Company states that a second instalment of 5 per cent., amounting to .£13,800, has been paid off the new issue of the Company’s debentures, reducing the amount from £261,200 to £‘247,400. The results for the year show a trading profit of £57,436 15s Id, which, with the balance brought forward from last year, £51,623 0s 7d, amounts to £10,059 15s Bd. The directors allocate £55,099 as provision against depreciation of certain assets. This leaves available £54,059 15s Bd, of which it is proposed to appropriate to payment of dividend for the year at 4 per cent, per annum, £23,400, and to forward to next year £30,659 15s Bd. Dunedin, Saturday. A ease of loprosy, has been discovered noar Palmerston South. The patient, a Chinaman, is isolated about two miles from other people, and all precautions have been taken.

New Plymouth, Saturday.

Sixteen hands have entered for the contest to be held hero on March 11th and following days. The entries include Wellington, Wanganui, Dunedin, West Coast, and Thames Bands, and tho contest promises to be the largest yot held. Wellington, Saturday. Tho Post and Telegraph Conference decided to establish an official newspaper, and a committee was appointed to carry out the idea, either by acquiring the Katipo or in some other way. The executive of the Association is to remain stationed in Wellington. The following New Zealanders have passed the first examination of surveyors under the Australian Federal system : A. W. Creagh (Auckland), F. 11. Jordan (Tauranga), M. F. Haszard (Waihi), H. T. Mitchell (Auckland), H. M. Kensington (New Plymouth), G. Cuthbertson (Invercargill), B. C. Basstin (Invercargill).

The Health Department does not consider it necessary to quarantine vessels arriving from Sydney, as a precaution against plague, but there will be a rigid examination of all such ships, and rats caught in the chief ports will be frequently examined, their special susceptibility to plague baccillus rendering their condition an excellent guide as to the degree of danger to the public. Christchurch, Saturday.

Tho second annual sports meeting under the auspices of the North Canterbury Public Schools Amateur Athletic Association is being held in fino weather. There is a record number of competitors, and tho attendance of the public is very large. Great interest is being taken in the different events, and the meeting as a whole promises to be an unqualified success. A number of events were got off before midday, the chief being : 880 Yards Championship of North Canterbury Public Schools, which was won by T. Leader (East Christchurch School), with R. Rydor (East Oxford) and C. Canavan (Opawa) second and third respectively. Time, 2.25 4-5.

An inquest was held this morning concerning tho death of tho newspaper runner Henry Craze, run over by the train near Hornby and killed. A verdict of accidental death was returned, a rider that no blame was attachable to anyone being brought in. Tho Coroner commented on the fact that boys wore allowed to rush through trains from carriage to carriage, frequently pushing and jostling each other, and hinted that the railway authorities should do more to prevent it.