NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 375, 26 March 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

Por Press Association. AUCKLAND, last night. At a meeting of the Seddon Testimonial Committee it was stated that £265 was in hand, chiefly from the country. The principal city lists have not yet been sent in. The lists will be closed on March 31st. Arthur Rosser, secretary of the Auckland Flour-mill Employers’ Union left for Wellington to-day to attend a conference of representatives of Flourmill Union on Saturday. Among the topics for discussion 'is the desirableness of an award for the milling trade for the whole colony, and the Milling Trust; Twelve red deer arrived by the Waikarae, Six are to be liberated at Galatea, and six at Stewart's island, to improve the breed of previous importations. The Tutanekai returned here at 11 o’clock with Sir Joseph Ward and party. Sir Joseph Ward goes South to-day. The Tutanekai is waiting to communicate with the Premier and will probably proceed to Napier, this afternoon, WELLINGTON, last night. One hundred and eighty passengers, mostly going home for the Coronation Season, have booked to leave by the s.s. Gothic on Friday. "The Flour-millers’ Union of Workers has passed resolutions declaring that the refusal of the Arbitration Court to grant preference to Unionists in the sawmillers dispute is a serious blow to unionism in the colony, and renders the award practically useless as far as its enforcement is concerned., It was decided to ask the Government to appoint special inspectors to compel observance of the award, also to ask the other unions of sawmill workers to form an association for the whole colony and hold a conference in Wellington to consider the matters of interest to the trade,, CHRISTCHURCH, last night. A young woman named Matilda Sarah Streeter pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court this morning to forging a cheque. The cheque had been drawn for £2 10s 6d, but the woman turned the two into twelve, initialing the alterations. She cashed the cheque at a .jeweller’s shop. She was remanded for sentence. Bail was allowed in one surety of £50.. WESTPORT, last night, A man has been arrested for criminal assault and robbery of a little girl at Murchison, The remains of a human skeleton have been found on the sea beach six miles from Mokihiuui, They are unidentified, PACIFIC CABLE,

(Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, last night. Sir Joseph Ward, replying to the toast ol “ New Zealand,” coupled with that of his own health, proposed by Mr Lucas, said the important work in which the Pacific Cable Company were engaged would be a monument for all time of the skill and characteristics of the Company. He congratulated them on the success of their efforts, and hoped to hear very soon of a connection with Fiji. There were great possibilities in the trade with Fiji. Nothing would do more to help that' trade than the Pacific cable. Replying to the toast of his health, Mr Reynolds said he could not speak too highly of the way he and the general officers of the Board were assisted by the New Zealand Government, particularly by Sir Joseph Ward. The Anglia to-day will make a final splice to the buoyed end thirty miles out. Sir Joseph Ward personally despatched rom the Anglia messages to the Premier and Lady Ward.

His Worship the Mayor yesterday received the following telegram from the Hon. J. G. Ward at Mongonm 1 1 have attended to-day at Doubtless Bay, and have had the pleasure of witnessing the landing and completion of the first section of the Pacific cable between New Zealand, Norfolk Island, and Australia. The event is one of great historical importance, and I am sure you will join witii me in expressing the hope that upon its final completion to Vancouver by the end oi the year it will add materially to the advantage of the people oi New Zealand and Australia, and will secure for New Zealand the cheap rates which have been denied it so long, In a few weeks the connection with Fiji will also be completed, and it will help to bring that country and our own into closer touch, and must tend to assist the traders both of Fiji and New Zealand in their commercial operations. I have little doubt that the completion of the cable wi.l lie a cementing link in the great chain of empire which is being so indissolubly welded throughout His Majesty’s dominions. The cable will probably be open to the public on May Ist.