LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 409, 7 May 1902, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

A PRESENTATION,

[By Telegraph—Press Association.) Palmerston North, last night. Sergeant-Major Ramsay, who is retiring from the police force, was to-day presented with an illuminated address, a gold pendant, and a purse of sovereigns by tho citizens and Justices of the Peace. CORONATION SERVICES. Auckland last night. Tho services for Coronation day, suggested in a letter received by the Primate from the Archbishop of Canterbury, has been approved by thePrimato and Bishops of New Zealand. The Anglican clergy of Auckland had a conference to'-day, and decided to hold services on the morniDg of June 26th, and, in order to havo representative services, they havo resolved to hold them in four or five churches only. Tho services will be held in the morning, so as non to clash winh any civic arrangements, and it is hoped that the civic authorities will have the samo consideration when making out their programme, so that none of the gatherings will interfere with tho services. The Presbyterians will also hold one united service, and the Ministers’ Association are moving in the same direction. NATIONAL COUNCIL OP WOMEN.

Napier, last night. The annual meeting of the National Council of Women was held here this evening, the Mayor presiding. Addresses of welcome were delivered by the Mayor and local clergy. There was a good representative attendance of delegates from all parts of the colony. Mrs Sievwright delivered her presidential address, which was of a comprehensive nature, embracing many subjects which havo agitated the social and political world during the past year. The address was able and exhaustive, and the President was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. The deliberations of the Council will begin to-morrow. A FIRE. Christchurch, last night. A fire occurred to-mght in the premises of P. J. Delamare, Crown boot factory, in Gloucester street. The building was of two storeys, built of brick, and had only been completed a few weeks ago. The fire had a good hold before tho alarm was given, and the premises were completely gutted. The insurances were : Building, £IOOO in tho National; stock and plant, £IOOO in the Liverpool and London and Globe. Mr Delamare estimates the value of the stock at £3OOO, and the machinery at £4OO.

SUPPOSED PLAGUE CASE. The man Shields, who is suffering from a suspicious disease, and was brought to the hospital from Lyttelton on Monday, was removed to the small pox hospital reserve on the sandhills to-night, where temporary accommodation has been provided for the patient and attendants. The honorary medical staff of the hospital, with one exception, saw the patient this afternoon, and pronounced the case to be a suspicious one, with all the symptoms of plague,

MR WOOLLEY’S OPINIONS. Wellington, last night. At a meeting of the New Zealand Alliance this evening the following resolution -was adopted: “ That having read the attack made upon Mr J. G. Woolley by a Toronto correspondent in several New Zealand papers, and having carefully examined the artiolesin Mr Woolley’s papers upon which the attack professes to be based, the executive of the Alliance has no hesitation in saying that the letter in question is characteristd by gross garbling and misrepresentation, and that the charges of anti-British sentiment and hostility to the British Empire, which are brought against Mr Woolley are not only without foundation, but positively the reverse of the truth. ”

CHESS. The next championship chess tourney will be held in Dunedin. MIMING AFFAIRS. Dunedin, last night. At a meeting of the Electric Extended G.D. Company, it was decided to go into voluntary liquidation and instruct the liquidator to sell the assets to a trustee for a sum sufficient to pay off the debts. It was further resolved that a new company be formed among the shareholders, with a capital of £4500. BODY RECOVERED. The body of William Wright, an old age pensioner, drowned ia Clutha by jumping off the railway bridge to avoid a train, was found this afternoon.