NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 475, 16 July 1902, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association,), AUCKLAND, last night. 'Hie new schooner tVioko has arrived from Whangarua . She was built to tiie order of the Deutsche Handel and Pluiitageu Gesselsehapp of Samoa to engage in the copra, trade of Bismarck Archipelago. 'l'he vessel is on similar lines to the Countess of Kanfurly. TIJA.MKS. last night-. Roger Kddowrs, a young man, a cripple, altempted to commit suicide early this morning, lie was found in the water at .Shortland wharf by a constable and conveyed to the hospital and was pronounced out- of danger. He was despondent through illness. Several candidates are mentioned but none have been definitely announced, to contest the Thames seat against Hie Hon. Mr McGowan. Mr Michael O’Keefe, President of the Miners’ Union, is a likely candidate. NAl'ilvH, last night. A poll to decide whether Hastings should he rated on Uni unimproved value was taken yesterday. The proposal was rejected by sixteen votes, the polling being—for 251), against 2UU. WELLINGTON, iast night. A laborer named Barman, aged 70, fell down the hold of the Ruapehu yesterday, and fractured his skull. He is now lying unconscious in the hospital. Major Jackson, according to a cable received by Sir J. (1. Ward from South Africa yesterday, is out of danger. The Whakatane- left Capetown for Wellington, via Hobart on the title The Kimutaka arrived at Plymouth on the Kith. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. A man named Chaney, a milkman, living at St. Albans, suicided this morning by shooting himself. The manager of the New Brighton Tramway Company, John Thompson, disappeared on Saturday night and has not been seen since, lie travelled to New Brighton by the eleven o’clock train. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day John Kinncrty was lined Liu and costs for allowing a hoarding-house owned by hint in Colombo street North to become a nuisance. The Magistrate commented* on the necessity for a by-law providing for the cancellation of the, license in .such a case. He allowed 2K days for the place to he made sanitary and habitable. Defendant was fined £f» for every day after (he period on which improvements are not made. OAMARU, last night. Mr John McLean, of Redcastle, for years a member of the Legislative Council and the Otago Provincial Council, died this morning, after a long illness, aged <S I years. HOKITIKA, last night. The agitation in -respect to the proclamation of the Hokitika river continues. Settlers met this afternoon to discuss tiie matter. The Ministerial reply to the miners’ resolutions is considered unsatisfactory, it being felt that the offer of £ 15011 is totally inadoquate, even from tiie point of view, of helping the mining industry. A local deputation will probably proceed to Wellington at the end of the week.

THE QUIRANG. NO SIGN OH THE MISSING .VESSEL. (I’m Press Association^ DUNEDIN, last night. 'l'he steamer South Australian lias arrived at Port Chalmers. She reports 'that no sign of the Quirang was discovered.

INFECTIOUS CASES. SHIRKING RESPONSIBILITY. (Per Press Association)., TIMARU. last night. The Hospital Board to-day discussed the recommendation of the Municipal Conference .to relegate the case of plague patients to Hospital Boards. The Chairman, Mr Talbot, condemned the recommendation, i and suggested asking all the Boards in the colony to co-operate to prevent the recommendation becoming law. Another member suggested asking, the Health Department to make local health officers responsible to the local authorities, , bearing the expense conjointly. Nothing definite was done. The Board resolved to call for tenders for an infectious diseases ward, and new nurses’ quarters, to cost about three thousand pounds^