NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 329, 1 February 1902, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

[ly tulkgrapit. —Pitres association.] j AUCKLAND. lust i Id.l. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company this afternoon the report showed a credit to profit and loss account of £3911. The directors recommended | ilie usual dividend of fid a share, in I addition to an interim dividend oi fid, I and the issue of 30,000 out of 80,000 unallotted shares, which entitles each shareholder to one and a half shares | paid nit to lUs for each share held on j January 23, fractional parts to be paid in cash. These shares rank equ-

ally with existing shares, carrying a dividend from June 30th last. WANGANUI, last night. A man named Williams was lined £3 and costs £3 5s fid at the Police Court for supplying liquor at Raefahi, Inland Wanganui, to a Maori woman. The Magistrate, i\lr Kettle, reserved judgment on a second charge of supplying the woman (whom he claimed to he liis wife, according to Maori custom) with liquor. .STRATFORD, last night. The Premier has accepted the patronship of the Taranaki Rille Association. MASTERTON, last night. Mr A. W. Renal 1, one of the pioneers of the Wairarapa district, died yesterday, aged S 3. He was a member of the General Assembly when that body met: at Auckland. He had been a confirmed invalid for five years. WELLINGTON, last night. Mr John Hutchinson, senior member for Wellington, states that his present intention is not to stand for re-elec-tion at the general election. CHRISTCHURCH, last night.

The Annual meeting of iiie New Zealand Ironmasters’ Association opened this morning. The report and balance sheet were adopted. Dir W. Cable (Wellington) was elected president, and Messrs Alec Burl (Dunedin), G. Fraser (Auckland), and J. L. Scott (Christchurch) vice-presidents.

At the ironmasters’ meeting it was stated that the Association could not lie registered under the name of New Zealand, and it will therefore lie registered under the name of Otago, as a majority of the members reside there. ASHBURTON, last night.

Dir McLachlan, the member for Ashburton, addressed his constituents at the Oddfellows’ Hall last evening. 1-lc eulogised the Government, particularly Mr Scddon, and prophesied an uneventful session. He received a vote of thanks in himself and the Government. HOKITIKA, last night.

At the annual conference of the New Zealand United Fire Brigades’ Association to be held here on March 1U it is proposed to hold a public exhibition of fire-escapes for' the benefit of the delegates who are attending the conference. Several patentees of fire-es-capes throughout the colony have expressed their intention of attending at Hokitika at the time of the conference with their appliances, to give a practical exhibition, of the work they perform. A special construction, with window openings, will be erected for the purpose of a proper trial, in view of the general public, being made. The public will he afforded every means of inspecting the advantages of the different escapes brought under notice. Secretary Gilberd, of Napier, and the local committee are now making the necessary arrangements for the exhibition.