LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 450, 21 June 1902, Page 3

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, last night. Mr John Bollard, M.H.lt., addressed his constituents to night. He stated that he had been approached by a syndicate who wished an empowering bill to enable a company to make a canal from the Waitemata to the Manakau. A competent engineer had been over the ground, and estimated tho cost at 41300,000. The speech was mainly devoted to adverse criticism of the Government. The speaker received a vote of thanks and confidence. Nelson, last night.

ir A short time ago there were some cases ir of typhoid and of scarlet fever in Nelson, i- but at the mooting of the City Council tod night it was reported that the city is now ,- freo from both diseases, o Masterton, last night, s This year's valuation (capital) of tho f borough amounts to £635,582, against £447,792, an increaso of £187,790. ’ Invercargill, last night. The hotol-keopers of Invercargill have * jointly decided to close the bars in their • houses during tho two hours set apart for 1 religious servicos on Coronation Day. Tho undertaking is purely voluntary, no public request having been made. A saw-mill hand at Mabel Bush says that Horace Churchman, supposed to have been drowned near Riverton, but afterwards traced by the police to the Mokoia, which left the Bluff on Tuesday morning, slept in the hut at_ tho mill at Mabel on Wednesday night, and next morning was seen by the men in the bush. Churchman is somewhat notablo as an axeman, and these men say they know him well. Christchurch, last night. All the plague patients at tho Bottle Lako Hospital aro doing well, and Dr. Symes, District Health Officer, expects to be ablo to disehargo some of them next week. Mr Ell addressed his constituents in Canterbury Hall this ovening, and was - very well received. He strongly opposed 1 any proposal of tho Premier having a I tendency towards the establishment of a 1 standing army. He advocated more power being given to the people, especi- 1 ally in regard to tho initiative and refqr- I endum. Ho was accorded a vote of ’ thanks and confidence ; also an additional ! vote conveying a warm appreciation of s his work. * Auckland, last night. < A dispute filed for reference to tho < Conciliation Board by the Waikato Coal- i miners’ Union lias been referred direct to t the Arbitration Court. 4