NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 429, 30 May 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. The Board of Education has resolved to close the schools on Coronation Day ■ and the rest of the week. The children will meet on Coronation Day and sing the National Anthem. An application under the Workers’ Compensation Act with the Union Steam Ship Company lias been filed by Jane de Lord Gallol, of Auckland, representative of William George Gallot (otherwise Munroe), tally clerk in the employ of the Union Company, injured on Hobson Street Wharf in July through a stack of oats falling on him, from the results of which he expired on November 28th. Mrs Macdonald died at Whangarei Heads, aged 101, within ten yards of her grave. Ten others have been interred recently,. with aggregate aget o! 840 years. A young man named Charles Dunstan has been arrested on charge of the theft of a bicycle, the property of the Star Bicycle Company, Wellington He was remanded there. The Women’s Democratic Union have passed a resolution directing the attention of Sir Joseph Ward to the fact that tiie promise to compel employers to pay shop -girls in the first year of service had not yet been fulfilled. They expressed a hope that means would he found to break up the Milling Trust, which was supposed to he the cause of the high price of bread. PALMERSTON N., last night. An old age pensioner named Thomas O’Gorman, aged 70, died suddenly at the Oroua bridge this morning, death being attributed to failure of the heart’s action. MASTERTON, last night A representative meeting of settlers affirmed the desirability of establishing a co-operative freezing works in the Wairarapa. Substantial support was promised. A committee was appointed to carry out the project. FEILDING, last night. A six-roomed liou.se at Taonm was burned to the ground last night. It was owned by Mr J. 11. Towers, Nothing was saved. The insurances on the house are £2OO and on the furniture £150..

IIAWERA, last night. Two young men named Arthur Keith and F, Harvey were arrested last evening on a charge of robbery with violence from F. S. Anthony. Accused were before the Court this morning, and were remanded for a weoje. WELLINGTON, last night. Speaking at Otaki last night, Sir Joseph Ward said that the Government were prepared to take over (he whole line and the lands of the Manawatu

Railway Company at a full compensation of what is believed to be the full value. If the shareholders decided to fpntinuo to hold the line, the State would not do anything to injure them, and the Government would do mealiest to carry on their own line legitithalely in the interests of the country as a whole. No differential rates, except where it was necessary 'in order to compete with water carriage, would he imposed.

CHRISTCHURCH, last night. Richard Henry Ashton, aged Cl, an engine-driver, died suddenly at the railway engine sheds yesterday. Death was due to heart disease.-

Joseph John Bates, a cripple, aged 75 years, residing at Sydenham, died suddenly this morning of heart disease.

.THE HERALD AGROUND.,

tPer Press Association)., AUCKLAND, last night. 1 The Union Company’s s.s. Herald arrived at Onehunga from Greymouth. .When crossing the Manakau bar tremendous seas smashed the rails and wlieeliiotisc, tore up the gratings, and Completely destroyed the meat-house. Oil bags were used before the vessel could get into the harbor An accident to the steering gear retarded the steamer’s progress up the harbor. She run on to a mud and stuck for two. hours. The Ngapuhi was unable to leave for New Plymouth yesterday afternoon, owing to the dangerous condition of the bar. The damage to the steamer was comparatively little, notwithstanding the heavy seas that washed her.