NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 340, 14 February 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Sir Joseph Ward arrived from New Plymouth, and remains in town today. He will be at Onehuhga to-mor-row to open the new post office, and will be entertained at luncheon there. The Congregational Union discussed the advisability of removing the headquarters to Wellington. It was decided to let it remain at Auckland for this year and consider the question, at next session. A resolution protesting against, the way the liquor law was administered by some of the magistrates was not put to the meeting, the reference committee considering that in the absence of evidence on the allegation it was unwise for tiie Council to discuss it. NAPIER, last night. A live-roomed dwelling at Hastings, owned by R. McGjffen, and unoccupied was destroyed by lire early this morning. The insurance was £3OO in the New Zealand office. FEILDING, last night. Yesterday at the S.M. Court the licensee of the Manchester Hotel was fined £5, and the conviction to be endorsed on iiis license, for Sunday trading. WELLINGTON, lait input. In the Supreme Court, Andrew Petersen, for cattle stealing, was put on probation for eighteen months, and Thomas Reardon, for assault and robbery, was sentenced to 2| years’ imprisonment. M. Edouard Glasser arrived from Sydney to-day to study ort behalf of the French Government the application of our labor laws in regard to the mining industry. He will visit all the principal mining centres of the colony, and then make a similar tour of observation in Australia. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The Conciliation Board considered the dispute in the tailoring trade this morning. After hearing b oth Union and employers’ statements, it was decided to adjourn in order to allow a conference to field for the purpose of deciding on a log that would he acceptable to both parties. The masters said that they were willing to accept the award to be made by the Arbitration Court at Dunedin next month in the tailoring dispute there, but the Union would not agree, as the Dunedin dispute only deals with tailors whilst the Christchurch dispute deals with tailors, tailoresses, and pressers. .