NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 284, 10 December 1901, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

[By Telegraph—Press Association.]

AUCKLAND, last night.—A meeting of planters ip Fiji decided to form an assocv.tir.vi, forty joining. It was decided to await the final answer of the Commonwealth with regard to duties on Fijian products before taking further acton Up to November 36' natives had been deported from Fiji. 'Plie reasons were stated. A severe earthquake was experienced in Fiji the week before last. The Hauroto, on arrival at Fiji fiom Sydney, was quarantined for se\eral davs.

Several burglaries are reported to have occurred in Onelumga last night In one case a safe was removed in a hand-truck, opened in the street, and its contents pffea, hut the thieves only got £l.

Captain H. Marks has been elected warden of Sin a lie defeated Mr Reimenscnn tdor, the former warden, a main quis’i-.u being federation with New Zealand, which Captain Marks is opposed to.

WAIPAWA, last night.—(T. -iv.i: .Mr Edward i’.ibby, aged 72, one of fie oldest residents of the district, and a well-know a sir iekeeper. WELLINGTON, last night.—The s.s. Sierra, with Biitish mails of the 23rd November, left San Francisco on me 6th inst.,.at 11 a.m., one day late. The statement has been upheld that the Government intend bringing into operation at «n early date the export duty on timber, hut Ministers wish it to he known that they have no such intention.

The Wellington Amateur Athletic Club has selected the following to icpresent it nt the championship meeting in A' ekl'.i.'id :—L. 11. Webster, 100, 250, ami -Mtl yards ; W. H. Pollock, -110 and ISO yards ; S. Henderson, 4-to vards hu'dk-.s and half-mile flat; J. I. W. Davis, one and three mile runs. The racehorse Boreas died at, Porirua yesterday, of pleurisy and pneumonia.

The return of the quantity and va.ne of frozen meat, and dairy produce exported firm the colony during November nr; follows : Butter, 25,285 owl., valued at £110,806 ; cheese, 1833 cwt., valued at £4155 ; frozen he if, 8844 cwt, valued at £10,892 , frozen mutton, £13.075. the quantity being 10,63'Sewf, , PI 385 carcases lamb, \alue £l9-13.