LATE NEW ZEALAND

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 469, 10 July 1902, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND

METROPOLITAN SHOW, (Per Press Association), CHRISTCHURCH, lust night. At a meeting of the Canterbury Agricultural ami Pastoral Association a resolution limiting the prizes to sheep bred m New Zealand or which had been in the colony for at leaH 12 months, was rescinded. A memlier gu'e notice of motion to debar imported sheep from taking the championship. The next Show was lived fur November 12th, l-'hh. and 11th.

MEETING OF SYNOD. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The annual Synod of the Wellington Diocese opened to-day, the business being of a formal character. In the evening Bishop Wallis delivered his opening address, at a service at St. Paul's pro-Catliedral. NINTII CO N TIN G ENT. ON THE WAY HOME. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The ; Ninth Contingent is to lea(ve Capetown by the Orient to-day.

M UNT CI PA L 0 A S-WO RK S. 'AN EXPERT’S ADVICE. MASTEIITON, last night, Mr Smythies, gas expert, has made a recommendation to the Borough Council that it should expend AI2SHU in order to place the plant, on an up-to-date footing, A. AND IU ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The A. and P. Association has set up a special committee to consider the •suggestions of the President, Dr. Levinge, that the rooms of the Association should he thrown open to farmers on Saturdays, hooks and paper provided, and Government experts to give short lectures.

AN INCORRECT REPORT. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The .statement made in a telegram from Blenheim, that the schooner Annie Hill had lost three men overboard in a gale on Saturday, is incorrect. The Annie Ilill was off Lyttelton Heads on Saturday, when the weather was calm. She did not lose any men during her trip. Some timber was jettisoned on account of the rough weather ear ier in the passage, FOOTBALL—AN ACCIDENT, INVERCARGILL, last night. The Star first fifteen anet .their first defeat this season in football in a match .with the Pirates, to-day, by a try to nil. Bain, the Star's speedy threequarter, bad bis arm broken near the wrist when the game w-as nearly over in a collision with Jacobs.