LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 403, 30 April 1902, Page 3

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, last night. To-day a meeting of the Canterbury Shcopowners’ Union of employers was held at Culverdon, and it was resolved to object entirely to tho conditions of labor demanded by the Shearers’ Union. A mooting of tho Employers’ Union will bo hold in Christchurch, when it is expected that all employers of shearers in Canterbury will bo represented. William John Ralph, injured by the fall of a bale of tow in the New Zealand Shipping Company’s shed at Lyttelton some days ago, died yesterday. At the inquest to-day a verdict of accidental death was roturned, no blame being attachable to anyone.

Dunedin, last night. At a well-attended meeting, convened by the Mayor, it was resolved that it is desirable that the occasion of Coronation be celebrated in an appropriate manner, and a strong committee of management was appointed, including members of the legislature for Otago and Southland, Mayors, Chairmen, County Councils, etc. It was also resolved that this meeting is of opinion that the services of those Otago ; and Southland representatives in the New Zealand Contingents who have laid down their lives in South Africa for the honor of the Empire should be commemorated by the erection of a fallen soldiers’ monument in some suitable position in Dunedin ; that for the purpose of giving adequate effect to the resolution the country districts be invited to co-operate with the city and suburbs, and that mayors, chairmen, and members of all local bodies }.s> the provincial district bo asked to form themselves into committee for the furtherance of the project. Wellington, last night. Transfers of police from Nelson have been decided upon by Cabinet. The Minister of Justice states that the papers in connection with the affair will be submitted to Parliament next session. At the Supreme Court Denis Riley, charged with an attempted unnatural offence on a boy, was found guilty of common assault, John Murray Connolly was found guilty of indecent assault on a girl. Both prisoners were remanded for sentence. A bottle containing a note signed by two troopers of the Eighth Contingent, thrown overboard from the Surrey on February 2nd, was picked up at Spirits Bay, North Cape, on the 7th inst., and ba3 been forwarded to the ActingPremier.

Nelson, last night.

At a meeting of tho Nelson Education Board to-day it was mentioned that teachers’ salaries under the colonial scale had increased by between two and three hundred pounds per month to over £I6OO a month. It was resolved to apply to Government for an extra capitation of ninepence, which will yield £175 a year, an amount that will still leave the Board unable to meet pressing requirements. The Inspector, Mr Harkness, reported that at Oparara, Karamea district, a household school attended by twenty children is conducted in a slab building with on earthen floor, which was originally built as a cow-shed. Tho door is fastened with strips of cow hide, and the light of day comes through chinks between the slabs. He urged the Board to remedy this, but the Board’s balance is so small that it had to hesitate before taking action, in view of pressing needs elsewhere.