NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 531, 26 September 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) NA'.'.iER, last night. The Works Committee of tiie Borough .Council last night agreed upon a loan of £50,000 for various borough works, including public baths, park, and a duplicate pumping plant. The committee will recommend the Council to ask Mr Carnegie for a, gift! for/tlie public library, WAIPAWA, last night. Some time ago the Waipawa volunteers decided to disband in consequence of the difficulty in keeping the corps up to the minimum strength. They voted the greater part of the funds towards public objects. It has now lreen decided to reform and the company has been brought nearly to its maximum number. Lieutenant Collett of the Third and Eighth Contingents, has been elected captain. RAETAHI, last night. At the (onclusion of Mr Reardon’s political address last night the meeting unanimously carried the following resolution : We, the Liberals of Raetahi, resent the impolitic action of the Federation in selecting a candidate before the various candidates have addressed the electors, and decline to be guided by their selection.” PALMERSTON N., last night. The Terrace End School Committee has decided to request Mr Firani, M. H.R., and W. T. Wood, members of the Wanganui Education Board, to ascertain why the Board pays a smaller allowance to School Committees under its jurisdiction than any other Board in the colony, as shown by the returns furnished by Parliament on September 2nd ; also if the Board will increase the Committees allowance to at least the amount paid by other Education Boards. FEILDING, last bight. An accident occurred at Bunting’s photographic studio to-day. Five workmen were engaged in raising a glass plate into position at a skylight. The scaffoldiug gave way and the men and glass fell. Two men received serious cuts and bruises and the other men lesser injuries. INVERCARGILL, last nig>,t. j Light snow fell this morning, but j the weather appears to clearing. Accounts from the tountry record heavy losses of lam’ok, and t is certain the total wP’x run into many thou- 1 sands, 1 AUCKLAND, last night. Eleven Chinamen’s bodies are to he ' disinterred at Auckland and forwarded immediately to Dunedin for shipment per Ventnor. NAPIER, last night. The Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company cabled to-day Canterbury mutton is at 3|d, Napier, Wellington, and North Island 3ld, lamb, first quality -Ifd, second 4£d. WESTPORT, last night. The Borough Council have decided to abolish the ward system of representation. The Council and Government cannot agree as to a site for public abattoirs.,' There is at present a deadlock. The Rev. Douthott, an old resident, lias died of heart disease, his death being shockingly sudden. The weather is still bad. There is a heavy sea on the coast. The steamer Selpdon is loaded, awaiting an improvement in the weather to sail for Hongkong, The Mercede, from Hongkong, is in the roadstead. She made the voyage from Thursday Island at - the rate of thirteen knots. The Firth of Dornoch is to load for Sydney. She is sheltering at Farewell Spit. MASTERTON, last night. Wairarapa and West Coast natives . have arranged to give a monster native t entertainment in Government House ) grounds next month, in aid of the Victoria College for Maori Girls, to be established in Auckland.