NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 382, 5 April 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

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AUCKLAND, last night. The mail steamer Sonoma brings no passengers to Auckland from .Sydney, owing to plague restrictions, but the outward passengers will tax her accommodation to the utmost.

The Hon. Mr McGowan is visiting Waikato, and returns to Wellington on Sunday. Captain Angus Smith lias died at Opotiki of blood poisoning. He was an old resident and served in the Crimea and Maori wars.

Flour and wheat meal have been advanced 15s per ton by the local mi,lors, making the price for both £9 10s per ton.

NAPIER, last night. Thirty of the men selected /for the Tenth Contingent left for Wellington this morning. . There was no formal ceremony, but a large number of people were present, and hearty cheers were given. The remainder of the selected nine proceed South to-morrow Mr McVay haying announced his intention of retiring from the Mayoralty,. a requisition signed by the whole of the Council has been presented to him asking him to reconsider his decision.

A general meeting of Athenaeum subscribers last night agreed upon terms for the sale of the property to the Borough. NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. The North Taranaki section consis. ting of 22 men, under Lieutenant Paul left this morning for Wellington. WELLINGTON, last night. Tiie gold export for March is 24,2370z5, of the value of £88,085, as against 40,002 ounces, valued at £157,509 in March last year. The total for the quarter is £376,679, as against £450,100 for the corresponding quarter of last year. LYTTELTON, last r.ight. A man named Stanley, aged 65, a fireman shipped on the Rimu at the Bluff, died suddenly at sea yesterday. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. A heavy boom succeeded by a severe earthquake shock, occurred at Cheviot yesterday afternoon at 2.30, causing many residents to hurriedly leave their houses. No damage is reported. A single woman named Annie Gurdley, aged 27, died at Rangiora yesterday. A doctor who attended her refused to give a certificate. DUNEDIN, last night.; q'lie Otago and Southland section of the Tenth Contingent had a very enthusiastic send-off this morning. They we-re lined up at the railway station, where they were shortly addressed by Councillor Carroll and Colonel Robin/ The men seemed to he of a, better stamp of soldiers than some of those who left in- 1 the previous contingents.